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Jean Kent (poet)
Jean Kent (born 1951) is an Australian poet. EducationJean Kent was educated at the Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba and graduated from University of Queensland with Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology. She has worked in vocational guidance, educational guidance of disabled children, counselling of students and staff in TAFE colleges and, most recently, teaching creative writing.[1] Jean now lives on Lake Macquarie,[1] which is a feature in her verse, as well the memories and experiences formed in youth and childhood in South East Queensland.[2] Literary careerJean Kent has published stories in many of Australia's quality literary magazines such as Overland, Westerly, Outrider, Imago, Australian Short Stories and Meanjin as well as in the American-based Antiopodes. She has published ten poetry collections. Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks included poems about her travels in Paris and Lithuania. The Hour of Silvered Mullet contemplates her rural past and lakeside present and was published by Pitt Street Poetry in 2015.[1] As was her latest Paris Light a personal Plan de Paris featuring paintings by her husband Martin Kent. Jean Kent has received several writing grants from the Australia Council, including Overseas Residencies in Paris in 1994 and 2011.[1] Critical reactionMartin Duwell writing in Australian Poetry Review described Travelling with the Wrong Phrasebooks as "an immensely likable collection, so likable that readers may miss some of its sophistication, thinking it no more than a set of poems about travels in France and Lithuania. It is actually a good deal more than that."[3] Awards
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