Geoff's Poetry at Smiths: Andrew Taylor + S K Kelen

Entry $10 / $5. No open mic.

Next up in Geoff Page’s monthly series of poetry readings will be Andrew Taylor (Sydney/Wiesbaden) and S K Kelen (Canberra).

Andrew Taylor is the author of eighteen books of poetry, including Collected Poems (Salt, UK 2004), The unhaunting (Salt, UK 2009), Impossible Preludes (Margaret River Press, 2016) and Shore Lines (Pitt Street Poets 2023). Also Coogee Poems, with art work by Travis Taylor, (Baden Press, 2021). He has published much literary criticism, including Reading Australian Poetry (UQP 1987), written the libretti for two operas, and translated poetry from German and Italian. Since leaving Perth in 2014 he divides his time between Sydney and Wiesbaden in Germany.

S K Kelen is an Australian poet who has been writing poetry for longer than he cares to remember. He enjoys travel, sports, gardening on cool sunny days, reading, writing, and philosophically hanging around the house. His most recent collections are A Happening in Hades (2020) and The Cult of What Comes Next (2025), both published by Puncher & Wattmann.

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