She lives in Castlemaine, Victoria, with her daughter, and is working on a new novel.
Her most recent book is her second collection of stories, Like a House on Fire (Scribe, 2012), which won the Queensland Literary Award and was shortlisted for the inaugural Stella Prize, and is also on the Victorian school syllabus, as a Year 12 English text. She is also the author of a travel memoir, Sing, and Don’t Cry, and the poetry collections Joyflight, Signs of Other Fires and The Taste of River Water, which won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2011. Her first collection, Dark Roots, was shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and is currently a text on the VCE Literature syllabus. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. Want to change how you receive these emails?
She is best known for her short stories, and both her collections, Dark Roots and Like a House on Fire, are currently on the Victorian VCE syllabus.Ĭopyright © 2020 City of Literature Office, All rights reserved.
They must stare into this new pitiless sunīetter or worse? says the voice, brisk and all business.Ĭate Kennedy is the author of several books of poetry and prose including The Taste of River Water – New and Selected Poems and the novel The World Beneath. Listen as we tell them that for their own good OK, now focus on the smallest letters you can read.Īs she and all of them, every one of them, While a masked stranger leans over, slides a new lens sideways Now it's September, and with nothing but more of this to come My girl has become cowed and timid, these last five months. The straining for a recognisable horizon, The numbers on the screen swimming, unaligned, To explain the blurred and unfocussed world, 5:43 Like A House On Fire - Whirlpool Close Analysis Rachel Shemara 42 subscribers Subscribe 2.5K views 2 years ago Analysis of Whirlpool, one of the stories by Cate Kennedy in her short. The optometrist saysĬalibrating and ticking. Why these tears now, leaking into my own maskĪs the stun gun of light hits her retinas, and her head
The hunched shoulders holding every quelled anxiety. The mask covering everything but her eyes Her hands, red and ravaged with too much scrubbing, Hurrying stricken through the dystopic mall Outside the beige door of a room just disinfected We expect drama with our rupturing moments This week from the Poet Laureates of Melbourne
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