Kate Lilley

Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, and sister of Rozanna Lilley.[1]

After studying at the University of Sydney she completed a PhD at University of London on masculine elegy.

Lilley published Versary,[2] her first volume of poems, in 2002, and Ladylike[3] in 2012. She is Associate Professor of English at The University of Sydney. Lilley edited The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish (Penguin Classics, 1994).[4] In 2010 she edited Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett for UWA Press.[5]

Lilley has a "featured cameo" as Vera Newby in the film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.

Poetry

• Versary. (Salt, 2002) ISBN 1-876857-15-3 review
• Round Vienna. (Vagabond Press, 2011) review
• Ladylike. (UWA Publishing, 2012) review
• Tilt. (Vagabond, 2018) ISBN 9781922181879 review

Edited

• Margaret Cavendish The Blazing World and Other Writings. (Penguin, 1994)
• Dorothy Hewett Selected Poems. (UWA Press, 2010)

• Winner 2019 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry for Tilt [6]

• Australian Poetry Library
• Staff Profile
• Kate Lilley Contents page Poems & essays at Australian Literature Resources
• Poems
• 2 short poems at Snorkel Magazine
• Kate Lilley: Sydney Poet an interview

• Kate Lilley Contents page