Katherine Gallagher
Appearance
Katherine Gallagher | |
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Born | Maldon, Australia | 7 September 1935
Occupation | Poet |
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Katherine Gallagher (born 7 September 1935) is an Australian poet resident in London.[1][2][3][4] Translations of her poems have appeared in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian and Serbo-Croat.[5] Gallagher translated from French to English Jean-Jacques Celly's poems in The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay.[6]
Awards
[edit]- 1978, Australian Literature Board Fellowship.[4]
- 1981, Brisbane Warana Prize.[4]
- 1986, nomination of "Passengers to the City" for the John Bray National Poetry Award.
- 2000, Royal Literary Fund award.[7]
- 2008, London Society of Authors' Foundation award.[7]
Career
[edit]- Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Harringay, in 2002.
- Writers Inc/Blue Nose Poets' Education Officer until 2008. In 2004/2005 this included coordinating the Young Writer's Mentorship Project funded by the Arts Council.
- Poet in Residence for Havering Council's third annual Parks and Arts Healthy Lifestyle Walk in Hornchurch Country Park on 17 July 2006.
- Founder of the Poetry Society Stanza Group (London North), started in March 2007.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Lidia Vianu [in Romanian] (2006). "Posterity will judge harshly poems that eschew feeling".
- ^ "Poetica - Circus Apprentice: poems by Katherine Gallagher". Abc.net.au. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ Ted Slade (2000). "Katherine Gallagher Interview". The Poetry Kit. Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
- ^ a b c McIntire, Dennis (2001), International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia (10 ed.), Routledge, p. 189, ISBN 978-0-948875-59-5
- ^ For Gallagher's poems translated into Hebrew see
- ^ (Celly & Gallagher 1994)
- ^ a b (Gallagher 2009, p. 169)
- Celly, Jean-Jacques; Gallagher, Katherine (1994), The sleepwalker with eyes of clay: poems, Forest Books, ISBN 978-1-85610-029-8
- Gallagher, Katherine (2000), Tigers on the silk road, Arc, ISBN 978-1-900072-47-2
- Gallagher, Katherine (2006), Circus-apprentice, Arc Publications, ISBN 978-1-904614-02-9
- Gallagher, Katherine (2009), Carnival edge, Arc, ISBN 978-1-906570-42-2, OCLC 436266162