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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Works By Louis Klee

First as Farce
As judge and author, Barron Field exemplified the Romantic figure of the poet as legislator. Louis Klee reviews a recent study of Field’s legacy that lays bare the connection between the doctrine of terra nullius and the origins of settler verse.
12 May. 2024
The Antipodean School
An unknown philosopher attends a conference, delivers a paper, launches a book: this hardly sounds like a memorable event. But Badiou’s arrival in Sydney was, in some sense, the opening of a remarkable and unlikely chapter in Australian intellectu...
21 May. 2023
Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work
Can the analogy between poetry and work help us understand capitalism in the contemporary moment? Is poetry itself a form of work?
19 Mar. 2023
The Time Police
'One surprisingly persistent theme in Making Australian History is the historical significance of literature, and in particular poetry. Can a poem ‘know’ something, ‘think’ something that history cannot?'
23 Oct. 2022
‘Reading is Like Dreaming’: An Interview with Lisa Robertson
‘What is most important to me is to write a strong text. My intentions are aesthetic, not therapeutic. The work of research, composition, revision, structuring, is what absorbs me utterly and what brings me repeatedly to the page.’
20 Mar. 2022
Lost Weather
At their core, both Sydney and Signs and Wonders are books that think with what she calls ‘complicated feelings’. This is not simply to say that Falconer writes essays about feeling that are themselves keenly felt. More than this, the essayist det...
6 Feb. 2022
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, tha...
8 Mar. 2021
A Forest Without Trees
Beyond Melbourne’s Jewish community, Herz Bergner and Pinchas Goldhar are mostly remembered as ‘multicultural’ writers avant la lettre.
23 Aug. 2018

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Louis Klee

Works By Louis Klee

First as Farce

The Antipodean School

Weird Unemployment, Unusual Work

The Time Police

‘Reading is Like Dreaming’: An Interview with Lisa Robertson

Lost Weather

The Poetry of As If

A Forest Without Trees