Author: S. K. Kelen

S. K. Kelen was born in Sydney in the year the Olympics and Television came to Australia.

He began writing when young and won the 1973 Poetry Australia Award for Australian Poets under 18. His early poems were noted for their energy, humour, flamboyance and serenity – and occasional ferocity.

Kelen enjoys travelling, sports, gardening on cool, sunny days, reading, writing and hanging around the house philosophically.

His work has been published far and wide, appearing in journals, ezines, newspapers, anthologies and broadcast on radio. He has won a number of prizes, grants and fellowships for his writing. His previous books include Atomic Ballet, Trans-Sumatran Highway and Other Poems, Goddess of Mercy, Island Earth: New and Selected poems and Yonder Blue Wild. His most recent book, A Happening in Hades is published by Puncher & Wattmann.