Kate Llewellyn is one of the most important contemporary Australian poets whose
poems deal with a variety of themes – life, love, loss and pain along with the
delineation of her emotions and experiences gathered while leading her everyday life.
Thus she has taken for her themes simple, everyday sentiments which are intense
enough, leaving deep impressions on her mind and in the process giving rise to these
emotions which she has recorded in her poems.
An attempt will be made in this paper to look into the different aspects of her poetry
and to analyse the ways in which she uses her rich experience to uncover truths
about life and its myriad shades.
Kate Llewellyn is one of the most important contemporary Australian poets whose
poems deal with a variety of themes- life, love, loss and pain along with the
delineation of her emotions and experiences. In recent years, she has emerged as
an influential voice in the field of Australian poetry. Born in 1940, she has been
writing and publishing poems for almost twenty six years , her poetry books numbering
seven in all till date. The first collection of her poems was titled Trader Kate and the
Elephants and was published in 1982. This collection was followed by other collections
as Luxury(1985), Honey(1988), Figs(1990), Crosshatched(1994) and Later Poems, the
last collection being written between 2000 to 2005.
Any study of all these poems in these collections would bring out a common
characteristic- their themes deal with the poet’s personal experiences gathered in the
course of living her life. The mood of these poems is a mixture of joy, sadness and
melancholy and they deal with the poet’s immediate felt experiences. Thus they have
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her deep personal emotions and are therefore the expressions of truths realized in the
process of the journey through this world.
Works Cited
Frye, Northrop ed. Selected Poetry and Prose of William Blake.
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Gilbey, David. “Love’s Plunder: Desire, Performance and Craft in Kate
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U of Wollongong P, 2010, 92-103, Print.
Poets and Perspectives- Kate Llewellyn . U of Wollongong P, 2010, Print
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[All quotations from the poems of Kate Llewellyn used in this article are
from this book]
Sheridan, Susan. “ Kate Llewellyn and Feminism”. Poets and Perspectives-
Kate Llewellyn. U of Wollongong P, 2010, 104-112, Print.
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