Welcome to Katherine Gallagher's website

Katherine Gallagher is a widely-acclaimed poet with seven books published as well as four chapbooks. Born in Australia, Gallagher has lived and worked in London since 1979. She has been an active force in the community, giving poetry readings, running workshops (for adults and children), judging poetry competitions, and participating in poetry festivals.
Her work has been widely reviewed, see Reviews. In addition, Gallagher has undertaken translations (from French) and her reviews of the work of other poets have been extensively published. Gallagher’s own poetry has been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian, and Serbian. 

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www.katherine-gallagher.com

Poetry collections

Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems
Circus-Apprentice
After Kandinsky
Tigers on the Silk Road
Shifts
The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay
Finding the Prince (pamphlet)
Fish-rings on Water
Passengers to the City
Tributaries of the Love-song (pamphlet)
The Eye’s Circle

Biography

About Katherine Gallagher

Tutoring

Workshops and courses

Other projects

Australia
Children’s poetry
Poems
Haiku
Publications
Past Events

Contact and links

Email/links
Katherine
(Photo by Marie Hyde)

Take-off

(after a line by Derek Walcott)

Have you seen the way the day grows
around you, neither perpendicular
nor horizontal -

open to whims, new currents,
the sky inviting banks of cloud,
stubborn vaults of air?

How it keeps you balancing
like that angel on a pinhead,
your feet facing all ways into the poem!

You follow it, you're the wind, a gale,
path escalating - you're sure
the day has you in its sights.

And you welcome it, ready
to be astonished.

News & events

Poetry & Voice, monthly workshop at Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., NW5, May 18, June 15, Saturdays, 1– 5 pm.
For more details click here

The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library (APRIL) was launched in June 2011. The website’s aim is to promote the study and appreciation of Australian poems and poets. The project is a joint venture between Sydney University, the Copyright Agency (CAL) and Australian Research Council. CAL’s key role is representation of poets’ rights in this project.
Katherine Gallagher’s poems are being digitalised and made available on the APRIL website.

Second Light Spring Festival, Friday,17th May, 2 - 4.15 pm
Competition Adjudication & Reading, Katherine Gallagher,
The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London.WC1
Info: 020 8881 1418

Caspari Foundation Reading on Tuesday 21st May, 2013, 6.30 – 9pm
Katherine Gallagher, Kaye Lee, Liz Cowley
Gregory House, Coram Campus,48 Mecklenburgh Square, London. WC1N 2NY.
Info: 020 7923 6270

Poetry Workshop:
at Le Moulin, Villebaudon, Normandy, France, May 27 - 31, 2013.
Landscapes into Words: a 5-day course for new and experienced poets (7 participants).
For more details click here

Workshop: The Legacy of Sylvia Plath , 22nd June, 1 to 5pm
The Dugdale Centre, 39 London Road, Enfield, EN2 6DS
Bookings through the Dugdale Box Office: 020 8807 6680, or
online
http://www.millfieldtheatre.co.uk
For more details click here

Word for Word Poetry Workshop, 3rd July, 2013 – 1-3pm,
Hornsey Library, London. N6.
Info: 0208 881 1418.

Poetry Reading, , 10th July, 2013 - 7.30 pm
Katherine Gallagher, Sudbury Café Poets,
The Hill’s Room, 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, CO10 2EU
Info: 01787 377802 & 01787 379 940

Anglo-French Bilingual Festival of Literature/fête Littéraire Bilingue/ 31st August – September 2, 2012
Helen Dunmore, Katherine Gallagher, Isabelle Soulard, David Cooke, Barbara Unkovic, Roger Elkin, Donall Dempsey and others. . .
The Festival was a great success. The next St. Clementin Festival will take place from September 1 - 3, 2014. Click here KGfestival2012.pdf for details of my contribution et al.
St. Clementin, 79150, Deux-Sèvres, France
E: gordon.simms@aliceadsl.fr
Tel: 00 33 (0)5 49 80 22 96
or 00 33 (0) 5 49 72 94 45
 
 



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Contents updated on 12th May, 2013, London
Copyright Katherine Gallagher © 2000-2013



Bookshop

You can order my books online from my publisher, Arc Publications. Click on the cover page of your choice for more information:

Carnival Edge
Carnival Edge: New & Selected poems
 
 
Circus-Apprentice
Circus-Apprentice
 
 
Tigers on the Silk Road
Tigers on the Silk Road