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NEW COLLECTION - CARNIVAL EDGE: New & Selected Poems
Katherine Gallagher’s next collection, titled Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems (Arc Publications) is due out in March 2010. It will be distributed in Australia through Eleanor Brasch Enterprises later in 2010 when Katherine Gallagher plans to do promotional readings.

Comments on CARNIVAL EDGE: New & Selected Poems.
To be able to follow, within a single volume, the evolution and refinement of a poet of Gallagher's subtlety and integrity is a fascination in itself. At its best, this is delicate, straight talking - a poetics that yokes inner generosity to outward reticence, a guileless paredness reminiscent of outback. Coming in from the heat, it's not always clear whether these poems dance or simply walk; but with a turn of phrase, a shoe-tight image, an elegant sleight of foot, everything is transformed. Reading Gallagher, one recognises there are ways of walking that are also dance.

The publication of CARNIVAL EDGE is a welcome event. Katherine Gallagher is ‘a fervent watcher’ of the world. Like the watcher in her poem Orchid (from the sequence La Fleuraison) she is also ‘a global traveller’, and this informs all of her work. This poet well understands ‘the cagey face of fleet tomorrow’. Her past, that ‘antipodean patchwork’, is also a rich resource comprising memory and discovery, a place ‘where weather's a way of life’… Landscape, war, family, the gains and losses of life, plus aerial meditations during long flights - all shine forth in the wide range of her subject matter, wrought in vivid colours. Gallagher is a colourist to her fingertips, to the tip of her heart. She is a poet of the eye, the rainbow and of all the feeling senses. In the final section of fine new poems which crown this volume she says.

Bring out your gambler,
risk-taker. Surprise yourself.
(Manifesto)

This book attests to the energy and insight of that statement.

PRIZEGIVING – BARNET POETRY COMPETITION
The Prizegiving for the 2009 Competition will take place at the Bull Theatre, High Street, High Barnet, on March 13th, 2010, at 10 a.m. for the Juniors (7 – 11’s and 12 – 16’s) and 3 pm for the Adults’ Section.

POETRY WORKSHOP AT LE MOULIN, VILLEBAUDON, NORMANDY: June 28th - July 2nd, 2010.
‘Crossing Points and Risks’ – a four day poetry course for 7 participants led by Katherine Gallagher. Course cost (includes tuition and accommodation) £350.
Further details: Kay Cotton & Sylvia Miles : e-mail: moulin50410@hotmail.com
Tel: 0033(0)233 592181
http://www.lemoulin50410.eu
For more details, see Normandy Workshop

PALMERS GREEN READING LAUNCH OF CARNIVAL EDGE:
The next event in this series held at St. John’s. Palmers Green, Junction of Green Lanes and Bourne Hill, N13, is on Saturday, 17th April, 7.30 pm. Guest poets - Katherine Gallagher, Mark Roper, Lynda How, Christine Vial and Ruth O’Callaghan. Readers from the floor. Wine and nibbles.

SALISBURY HOUSE POETS 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, MARCH 18
featuring Mario Petrucci, Katherine Gallagher, Angela Elliot & Louis Cennamo's Jazz Ensemble – gala opening of Enfield’s new Dugdale Theatre, Thomas Hardy House, Cnr. London Rd & Cecil Rd. Enfield. E1. 7.30 pm. info: poetry@chela.co.uk

ARTEMISpoetry - SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 4, OUT MAY 2010
Katherine Gallagher, Poetry Editor for ARTEMISPoetry 3, has her work featured in ARTEMISPoetry 4. The Poetry Submissions deadline is 28th February 2010. Women poets only, of any age. Send a maximum of 4 poems; the total number of lines in all should not exceed 200 lines. Two copies, A4 paper copy only, typed or neatly handwritten. Each numbered sheet to bear the poet’s contact details. The Poetry Editor for Issue 4 is Alison Brackenbury, a widely-published prizewinning poet. Her latest collection is Singing in the Dark (Carcanet, 2008).
Send poems to Dilys Wood, 9 Greendale Close, London. SE22 STG. Please write ARTEMISpoetry 4 on your envelope.

SECONDLIGHT SPRING FESTIVAL: MAY 14-15, AT THE ART WORKERS' GUILD, 6 QUEEN SQUARE, LONDON,WC1
Katherine Gallagher leads a workshop Friday 14th – 10 to 12.30 a.m.
Katherine’s launch reading of CARNIVAL EDGE: New & Selected Poems. – 5pm, Friday 14th

MOTHERLODE: NEW AUSTRALIAN ANTHOLOGY, 2009
Katherine Gallagher’s poem ‘Relic’ from Fish-Rings on Water (Forest Books, 1989) has been published in a new anthology, Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986 – 2008. (Puncher & Wattman Pty. Ltd., PO Box 441, Glebe, NSW. 2037).

The editors Jennifer Harrison and Kate Waterhouse say : We have chosen poems from the pool of Australian women’s poetry published or anthologised between 1986 and 2008 with the intention of capturing a contemporary snapshot of women’s attitudes to children, mothering, female identity and related issues. We believe that the anthology will prove a welcome addition to the literature of women’s studies.

The workshop series POETRY & VOICE is continuing at Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., NW5. See Workshops

POETRY SOCIETY/NATIONAL TRUST OSTERLEY PROJECT
Katherine Gallagher (London North Poetry Society Stanza group) recently worked with Kavita Jindal (Poetry Society South –West London Stanza group) on a poetry project for children and adults as part of the South-West London Stanza’s Poetry Society/National Trust initiative at Osterley Park, a much-visited London NT site.

POETRY AND SCULPTURE
Engraving poems written by children on stones or other surfaces, is a delightful way of involving them in neighbourhood projects. Some time back, in January-February, 1999, I worked with pupils from two Barking Schools - St. Joseph's and St. Margaret's, and sculptor Harry Gray of the Cambridge Carving Workshop to provide poems for the Town Quay Garden Stones. as part of the Barking and Roding Valley Partnership Regeneration Project and The Word, the London Festival of Literature.
The object of the Town Quay Garden Stones Project was to create an outdoor perpformance space next to the River Roding and near the Barking Abbey ruins and historic 13th century St. Margaret's Church.

Aldo Magagnino has translated some poems from Circus-Apprentice in the Italian review Crocevia, Letteratura dell’Oceania, Issue 07, 2009 ( http://www.besaeditrice.it), a special issue dedicated to the late much-loved Professor Bernard Hickey.

ABC’s POETICA Programme, 27th June, 2009:
Katherine Gallagher’s poems were featured on the A.B.C’s POETICA programme (36 min poetry and chat) on Radio National on 27th June, 2009 and repeated on the 2nd of July after the 3pm news both days.
Interview by Krystyna Kubiac.

POINT 33 RECURRING, 2nd July, 2009:
Katherine Gallagher’s poems were included in POINT 33 RECURRING, a multimedia representation (music, visuals and poetry) of our connection with the social and physical environment, symbolized by the recurrent motif of feet, presented at Bishopsgate Institute in a programme for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Event co-ordinated by Kate Newell, Oboist.

HAIKU - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2009: Katherine Gallagher’s haiku

cherry blossoms . . .
the clip-clop of horses
distant now

SOCIETY OF AUTHORS' GRANT:
In December, 2008, Katherine Gallagher received a £2,000 grant from the Society of Authors , London, towards her New & Selected Poems.

ELEANOR BRASCH ENTERPRISES
Gallagher’s collections Circus-Apprentice (2006) and Tigers on the Silk Road (2000) published by Arc Publications, UK (www.arcpublications.co.uk) are distributed in Australia by Eleanor Brasch Enterprises, PO Box 586, Artamon, NSW., 2064.
Email: brasch2@aol.com

WWW.POETRYINTERNATIONAL.ORG
Details of Katherine Gallagher's poetry collections plus a selection of her poems by Editor, Michael Brennan, are now on the Australian section of www.poetryinternational.org.

WWW.SECONDLIGHTLIVE.CO.UK
Second Light Network has an excellent website: http://www.secondlightlive.co.uk.
It is administered by Anne Stewart who also runs the wide-ranging poetry p f site.
If you haven’t already logged on to poetry p f, do take a look. It is one of the most visited sites in the British poetry scene with details of over 100 poets (and growing), future reading events and workshops.
poetry p f also publishes very attractive poetry postcards on a wide range of themes. Prices are very reasonable.

pRO Translation Collaboration - National Tour.
As part of a series of events in a national tour, this translation collaboration published a bilingual anthology of poetry and translation (and optional CD recording of the poets and translators) from the poetry p f imprint.
The anthology called ’And the story isn’t over . . .’ was celebrated in a national tour beginning March 20 and ending on April 2.
Katherine Gallagher read on 30th March 2009 with her Romanian translator Elena Nistor, and also with Maggie Butt & Rik Wilkinson in a Translation Workshop, part of the above collaboration
Venue:
Middlesex University Literary Festival, Trent Park Campus, Bramley Road, London . N14 4YZ.

Launch: Katherine signing Circus-Apprentice - 20th October	Kwesi, Katherine, Ian at the launch at The Menzies Centre - 29th October

My new collection, Circus-Apprentice, was launched along with Joanna Boulter's book Twenty Four Preludes & Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich by Arc Publications (www.arcpublications.co.uk) on October 20th, 2006 at Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck Street, London NW1 8NT.

There was another launch for Joanna and myself at the Lit. & Phil. Library in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 24th October. It's an amazing place, next to the station.

The third event was on the 29th November at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, part of King's College London. The Menzies Centre is at the Melbourne Place end of Australia House. There were about 60 people there. Highlight of the evening was the sequence After Kandinsky, eleven poems inspired by Kandinsky paintings from his Bauhaus period, accompanied by Kwesi Edman (cello) and Ian Henderson (flute). Kwesi composed the music which was very well received. Certainly, poetry and music go together beautifully. Very exciting. Finally, Ian, Lecturer in Australian Literature, launched Circus-Apprentice, giving some fascinating insights into its focus on hybridity, landscape, exile and the cosmopolitan.

Events

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Workshop: Poetry & Voice

Dates: 2009-2010, London
Saturdays, 1.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.:

17th October	28th November	12th December	23rd January	20th February
20th March	17th April	15th May	19th June	17th July

Wanting to develop your poetry-skills, explore your poetry 'voice'?
This workshop offers ways into writing poetry. Writing-exercises and constructive feedback. Practical criticism of existing work.
The emphasis is on tuning into ourselves and the poem, its particular shapes and rhythms. For new and experienced writers. Please bring 12 copies of one poem for critique and feedback.

Katherine Gallagher is a widely-published poet and experienced poetry tutor. She has four full-length collections of poetry, including Tigers on the Silk Road (Arc Publications, 2006) and Circus-Apprentice (Arc, 2006). Carnival Edge, her new & selected poems is forthcoming from Arc in March, 2010. Until recently, she was Writers Inc Education Officer. Circus-Apprentice was selected as Book of the Month (March 2007) on the Poetry Kit (http://www.poetrykit.org).

Penelope Shuttle on Circus-Apprentice – ‘. . strong, resourceful and varied’
Patricia McCarthy (ed. Agenda) on Tigers on the Silk Road – ‘. . an impressive clarity and freshness of voice.’

Venue:

Pre-bookings and further details:

• T: 0208 881 1418
• E: mail@katherine-gallagher.com

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Barnet Writers Workshop

Dates: 2009-2010, London
Wednesdays: 1.00 - 4.00 p.m. -- Monthly
Ways into Writing. For new and experienced writers.
Dates of next workshops:

23rd September	14th October	11th November
9th December	20th January	17th February	17th March
14th April	12th May	16th June	14th July

Cost per session: £10

Pre-bookings and further details:

• T: 0208 881 1418
• E: mail@katherine-gallagher.com

AND NOT TO THE FRIENDS’ HOUSE.
Thanks.

28th June - 2nd July, 2010: ‘Crossing Points and Risks’: a four-day poetry course for 7 participants, with experienced tutor, poet Katherine Gallagher at Le Moulin, Normandie, France. From 6pm Monday 28th – 3pm Friday 2nd July . . .

Course Fees: £350 inclusive. Fees include accommodation, tuition, all meals from Monday evening (28th June) until after lunch on Friday (2nd July), including wine. One afternoon of the course will be left free for an off-site outing, eg. Mont St. Michel, Bayeux, Granville.

The Course: Katherine Gallagher welcomes new and experienced writers working towards a collection. There will be a strong emphasis on identifying and improving the personal skills of course participants, and individual tutorials will be arranged. With your booking, please include two poems that you feel are representative of your work, for possible discussion at your tutorial. Writing through the senses and engaging with boundaries and risks, the workshop will focus on the crossing points of our lives, exploring memory and inner spaces to transform the autobiographical into poetry – using writing exercises and constructive feedback.
Please complete your booking form and send it to Kay Cotton with your £50 deposit, cheque payable to Kay Cotton with the balance payable on June 1st 2010. Please email poems to Katherine Gallagher: mail@katherine-gallagher.com

Accommodation: Course participants will stay on site, either in La Grange, which has 7 bedrooms: 1 en-suite double bedroom on ground floor, easy access; 1 double and 2 singles, plus bathroom, in each of two converted haylofts, extra shower-room downstairs . . .
OR in Le Moulin which also has an accessible bedroom on the ground floor, with separate bathroom and toilet, and two twin-bedded rooms on the first floor.
There will be no need to share a room.

Katherine Gallagher (http://www.katherine-gallagher.com) is a widely-published prize-winning poet and experienced poetry tutor.
She has four full-length collections of poetry, the most recent being Circus-Apprentice (Arc Publications, 2006). Her Carnival Edge: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Arc in March, 2010. In 2008, she received a Foundation Award from the Society of Authors.

BOOKING DETAILS,
including transport: Kay Cotton and Sylvia Miles, Le Moulin, 50410 VILLEBAUDON, Normandy, France.
Tel: 0033 (0)233 592181
Email: moulin50410@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.lemoulin50410.eu

Katherine Gallagher at the Stevie Smith Exhibition in Palmers Green Library, North London - September, 2002

See also the unveilling of Stevie Smith Blue Plaque.

Biographical Note

I am a widely-published Australian poet resident in London. My books include The Eye's Circle (Rigmarole, 1974), Passengers to the City (Hale & Iremonger, 1985), Fish-rings on Water (Forest Books, 1989), Finding the Prince (Hearing Eye Pamphlet Series, 1993), a translation of Jean-Jacques Celly's poems, The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay (Forest Books, 1994), Tigers on the Silk Road (Arc Publications, 2000), and After Kandinsky (Vagabond Press, 2005, Chapbook Rare Object Series).
My most recent collection Circus Apprentice (ISBN 1-4614-02-7) was published by Arc Publications in October 2006.
See http://www.arcpublications.co.uk
Tigers on the Silk Road is distributed in Australia by Fremantle Arts Centre Press through Penguin. Passengers to the City was shortlisted for the 1986 Australian National Poetry Award.
Winner of the 1981 Brisbane Warana Prize.
Until 2008, I was Writers Inc/Blue Nose Poets’ Education Officer but unfortunately, due to funding cuts, Writers Inc can no longer continue. From July - October, 2002, I was Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Harringay, London. N4.

In 2004-5, I co-ordinated on behalf of Writers Inc an Arts Council-funded Young Writers’ Mentorship Project to work in twelve secondary schools in the Boroughs of Barnet, Ealing, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. Other participating poets were Mario Petrucci whose idea it was originally and Sue Hubbard. The Project was very successful and showed the need for such one-to-one mentoring as a spur to fledgling writers for they rarely have such direct access to established writer-tutors.

In March, 2007, I started a Poetry Society Stanza Group around the Palmers Green-Southgate-Tottenham-Hornsey-Wood Green area. This was listed by the Poetry Society as the Palmers Green-Tottenham Stanza. However, due to the residential base of our membership's being different, we asked for it to be changed to London North. The Stanza meets to discuss poems and other matters on the first Friday of each month. It is proving very useful as a meeting point for the group’s various interests. In May, 2008, we had a Stanza reading at Wood Green’s Big Green Bookshop, with more to follow.

Interview - March 2000 with Ted Slade for the Poetry Kit on http://www.poetrykit.org

Interview - January 2006 with Professor Lidia Vianu (University of Bucharest) on http://www.lidiavianu.scriptmania.com

Interview - February 2007 with Elena Nistor.
Published in Caiete Internationale de Poezie – International Notebook of Poetry Nr. 8/2007. Poems in Translation: East and West Essays on Poets and Poetry.
This International Notebook is an annual publication sponsored by the Romanian Writers & Artists’ International Association – LiterArt - XXI
The interview is accompanied by 10 Poems from Circus-Apprentice translated into Romanian by Elena Nistor (Link to the magazine website to be added shortly).