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
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

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 in Normandy, May 27 - 31 & June 3 - 7
at Le Moulin, Villebaudon, Normandy, France.
A 5-day course for new and experienced poets (7 participants).
For more details click here

Poetry & Voice, monthly workshop at Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave., NW5, February 18, March 24, April 28, 1– 5 pm.
For more details click here

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.
More details on Second Light

Friday, 20th April, 8.00pm
St. Michael's Parish Centre, St. Michael's Street, St. Albans.
VER POETS: Kaye Lee & Katherine Gallagher discuss aspects of the Australian poetry scene and read their own poems.

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.

Day Workshop with Katherine Gallagher, Saturday, 30th June 10.30 am – 16.30 pm
Themed workshop: ‘Not Waving but Drowning: Not Drowning but Waving – the enigma of Stevie Smith’.
Writing workshop : 10.30 am - 1 pm.
Talk 'Who was Stevie?' plus questions and readings of poems : 2.00 -4.30pm
Writing workshop £16, ( £13 conc.)
Afternoon: £12 (£10 concs.) Full day - £28 (£23 concs.)
info: mail@katherine-gallagher.com 020 8881 1418

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 & others. . .
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 7th February, 2012, London
Copyright Katherine Gallagher © 2000-2012



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