Louis Klee
Louis Klee is a writer, essayist, and poet. His poem ‘Sentence to Lilacs’ co-won the Peter Porter Prize in 2017. He lives in Melbourne, on Wurundjeri land.
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All essays by Louis Klee
The Poetry of As If
With each collection of poems, Farrell has absorbed new tones and registers in ways subtle enough that it is easy to miss a decisive shift in the make-up of whimsy and seriousness in his work. And so we may suddenly find, reading Family Trees, that irony, kitsch, and burlesque have started to feel like elegy, philosophy, and flashes of utopian vision.
Mar. 2021 •
Australian literature • Poetry