Katherine Gallagher

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]

This article is about the Australian poet. For the Australian politician, see Katy Gallagher.

Katherine Gallagher
2010, London
2010, London
Born (1935-09-07) 7 September 1935
Maldon, Australia
OccupationPoet
Website
www.katherine-gallagher.com

Awards
  • 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
  • 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.

References
  1. Lidia Vianu [in Romanian] (2006). "Posterity will judge harshly poems that eschew feeling".
  2. "Poetica - Circus Apprentice: poems by Katherine Gallagher". Abc.net.au. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  3. Ted Slade (2000). "Katherine Gallagher Interview". The Poetry Kit. Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2010.
  4. McIntire, Dennis (2001), International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia (10 ed.), Routledge, p. 189, ISBN 978-0-948875-59-5
  5. For Gallagher's poems translated into Hebrew see
  6. (Celly & Gallagher 1994)
  7. (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

See also
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