Kate Lilley

Kate Lilleyis a queer poet-scholar. Her three books of poetry are Versary, Ladylike and, most recently,Tilt, winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award. Recent poems have appeared in Griffith Review, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit and Plumwood Mountain. She is the editor of Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) and Dorothy Hewett: Selected Poems (UWAP).

Articles by Kate Lilley:

6 November 20246 November 2024 · Poetry

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Kate Lilley

I try out for Can Can after school / knowing I’m not cut out for the high kicks / Ballads chansons show tunes ok / I can belt out Judy Garland and all the songs from Oliver / “Who Will Buy”/”As Long as He Needs Me” / Wher-e-e-e-ere is love

Published in Overland Issue 220 Spring 2015 ·

Austerity

Kate Lilley

The person honourable, the crimes austere. In circumstances of woodland decay well suited to delinquency