Background
Yelich was born in 1965 into an immigrant family from Dalmatia in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Vivid sketches full of unexpected detail communicate bizarre, humorous, and magical cultural clashes in this first collection from a rising poet who draws from her personal experiences as the child of an immigrant. A woman stranded at home with small children listens to the radio for company in wry, colorful poems about domestic life. Summers in seaside cottages, the dramas of suburban life, and the memories of childhood are among the scenarios explored with a freshness and lack of pretension from this gifted poet.
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Yelich was born in 1965 into an immigrant family from Dalmatia in Auckland, New Zealand.
She studied literature at the University of Auckland and became a trained teacher.
Yelich"s early poetry was included in AUP Poets 2 (2002). Her poems were chosen for the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2008. She was also included in New New Zealand Poets in Performance (AUP, July 2008), a book that was released with an accompanying Civil Defense. Yelich’s second collection of poetry, Get Some (AUP, 2008) was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
Get Some focuses on an American marine named "Edgar" who is serving in Iraq.
In 2010 Yelich received a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship that allowed her to write full-time in residence at the Sargeson Centre. The Centre is adjacent to the University of Auckland and recipients receive an annual stipend of New Zealand$40,000.
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