Kate Lilley
Kate Lilley is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.Biography
Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, and sister of Rozanna Lilley.
After studying at the University of Sydney she completed a PhD at University of London on masculine elegy.
Lilley published Versary, her first volume of poems, in 2002, and Ladylike in 2012. She is Associate Professor of English at The University of Sydney. Lilley edited The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish. In 2010 she edited Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett for UWA Press.
Lilley has a "featured cameo" as Vera Newby in the film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.Poetry
- Versary.
- Round Vienna.
- Ladylike.
- Tilt.
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