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Paul Kelly Paul Kelly i(A3013 works by)
Born: Established: 1955 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 Oh, Carols! Paul Kelly , 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: The Monthly , December no. 184 2021; (p. 72-75)
1 Soul Music : On Kev Carmody Paul Kelly , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Monthly , October no. 171 2020; (p. 50-53) 'In this article, the author discusses the songwriter Kev Carmody and imagination was also fuelled with mid and shortwave capacity and an antenna. It mentions composer Mairead Hannan assembled a team, which included playwright John Romeril, director Rachel Perkins. It also mentions Sydney Symphony Orchestra performed selections of Gough's favourite classical music to a packed Sydney Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody at the memorial service for Gough Whitlam, 2014.' (Publication abstract)
1 Riddle Poem Two from the Kelly-Hoard i "I’ve been shut up a long time in a dark place,", Paul Kelly , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 14-20 March 2020;
1 Short Poem i "First the insect", Paul Kelly , 2019 single work
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 62)
1 1 y separately published work icon Love Is Strong as Death Paul Kelly (editor), Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2019 17491295 2019 anthology poetry

'Paul Kelly’s songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves – poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature’s great themes that have proven so powerful in his music: love and death – plus everything in between.

'Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 A Bastard Like Me (For Charlie Perkins) i "I was born in the bush", Paul Kelly , 2018 single work lyric/song
1 It's Time, Comrade Bob Carr , Greg Sheridan , David Williamson , Evan Williams , Troy Bramston , Alan Wood , Mungo MacCallum , Mike Steketee , Paul Kelly , 2014 single work obituary (for E. G. Whitlam )
— Appears in: The Australian , 22 October 2014; (p. 1-4, 19-22)
1 A Veil Over Labor’s Failure and a Gloss on Gillard’s Greatest Hit Paul Kelly , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 September 2014; (p. 15, 18)
1 Haiku i "Time is elastic", Paul Kelly , 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Love Poems 2013 2013; (p. 237)
1 Desert Songs Paul Kelly , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Monthly , October no. 83 2012; (p. 46-51)
1 2 Conversations with Ghosts Paul Kelly (composer), James Ledger (composer), 2012 single work musical theatre

'Paul Kelly pays tribute to the immortal works of W.B. Yeats, Judith Wright, Kenneth Slessor and Les Murray with a haunting song cycle of remembrance and longing. Veteran Australian singer / songwriter Paul Kelly joins forces with ten young performers from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) to present the world premiere of an original song cycle, based on the poetry of W.B. Yeats, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Judith Wright, Kenneth Slessor and Les Murray, as well as several new lyrics of his own.

Created by Kelly in collaboration with ANAM's 2011 resident composer, James Ledger, Conversations with Ghosts is a bittersweet reflection on the nature of mortality and an uplifting memorial to those who have been lost. From Slessor's incantatory 'Five Bells' and Yeats's 'Sailing to Byzantium' to Murray's 'Once in a Lifetime Snow', Conversations With Ghosts pays homage to some of the English language's greatest wordsmiths, offering a unique and unforgettable evening of music and lyricism.' Source: www.melbournerecital.com.au/ (Sighted 13/08/2012).
1 In the Wee Small Hours Paul Kelly , 2011 extract autobiography (How to Make Gravy)
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 2011 2011; (p. 227-233)
1 Everything I Know Paul Kelly , 2010 extract autobiography (How to Make Gravy)
— Appears in: The Age , 18 September 2010; (p. 10-11) The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 September 2010; (p. 12-13)
1 Caltowie Bells Paul Kelly , 2010 extract autobiography (How to Make Gravy)
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 September 2010; (p. 11)
1 21 y separately published work icon How to Make Gravy Paul Kelly , Camberwell : Penguin , 2010 Z1726360 2010 single work autobiography 'This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them, and from those little tales grew How to Make Gravy, a memoir like no other. Each of its hundred chapters, also in alphabetical order by song title, consists of lyrics followed by a story, the nature of the latter taking its cue from the former. Some pieces are confessional, some tell Kelly's personal and family history, some take you on a road tour with the band, some form an idiosyncratic history of popular music, some are like small essays, some stand as a kind of how-to of the songwriter's art – from the point of inspiration to writing, honing, collaborating, performing, recording and reworking.' Source: www.penguin.com.au/ (Sighted 20/09/2010).
1 A Ruby amid Many Gems Paul Kelly , 2010 single work obituary (for Ruby Hunter )
— Appears in: The Age , 20 February 2010; (p. 3)
1 Behind the Bowler's Arm Paul Kelly , 2010 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: True Blue? : On Being Australian 2008; (p. 166)
1 One More Tune i "Night is turning into morning", Paul Kelly , 2009 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2009 2009; (p. 111)
1 2 One Night the Moon John Romeril , Kev Carmody (composer), Mairead Hannan (composer), Paul Kelly (composer), 2009 single work musical theatre
1 Thoughts in the Middle of the Night i "All is dark but for the greenish glow", Paul Kelly , 2008 single work lyric/song
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2009 2009; (p. 110)
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