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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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

Contact and links

Email/links
Katherine
(Photo by Marie Hyde)

Biodiversity

(after Lobster Telephone, Salvador Dali)

Lobster and telephone have found each other:
the telephone can’t eat the lobster
the lobster can’t eat the telephone.

The phone’s gone kitsch, wearing
an electric-orange hard-hat,
keeping the day on hold.

Sooner or later it had to happen
that some laser-eyed lobster
would shake off one sea and find another –

a stunned, air-shell ocean of voices
listening to sterlob sterlob,
lobster language

as if for the first time.

News & events

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.

Poetry Workshops: Voices & Masks at Le Moulin in 2012, Villebaudon, Normandy, May 26-31 & June 3 - 7. A 5-day course for new and experienced poets (7 participants).

Poetry & Voice, monthly workshop at Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., NW5, December 10, January 21, February 18, 1– 5 pm.

Canterbury, Tuesday, 6th December, 6 pm
Reading for launch of ‘Not Only the Dark’. Anthology in aid of Shelterbox, Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Info: 020 8881 1418

Poetry Workshop, Hornsey Word for Word, Wednesday, 25th January, 2012, 1 – 3 pm.

Sunday, 19th February, 7.30 pm
Katherine Gallagher and Clare Crossman, Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., NW5.
Info: 020 8881 1418

ARTEMISpoetry submissions deadline: for Issue 8, 28th February 2012. Editor this issue: Myra Schneider. 4 poems max. Send 2 copies, to Dilys Wood, 3 Springfield Close, East Preston, West Sussex,BN16 2SZ.
Further details: www.secondlightlive.com

Poetry in Palmers Green, Saturday, 23rd June, 7.30 pm
Kevin Crossley-Holland, Katherine Gallagher, Myra Schneider, Penelope Shuttle, St. John’s Church, cnr. of Green Lanes/Bourne Hill, Palmers Green, N13.
Info: 020 8881 1418.

Saturday, 30th June 10.30 am – 16.30 pm
Themed workshop: ‘Not Waving but Drowning: Not Drowning but Waving – the enigma of Stevie Smith’.
More details later.



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Contents updated on 25th November, 2011, London
Copyright Katherine Gallagher © 2000-2011



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