Past Events



Wednesday, 14th May – 6 for 6.30 pm, 2008 Reading by Palmers Green-Tottenham North London Poetry Society Stanza Group, at The Big Green Bookshop, Unit 1, Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, N22 6BG.
Saturday, 12th April – 2.15 pm, 2008 Katherine Gallagher on ‘Stevie Smith’s Masks – the Poems & Novels’, Friends’ House, Leicester Street, East Barnet, London. EN5.
Sunday, 13th April - 7:30 pm, 2008 Reading with Linda Rose Parkes, at Torriano, 99 Torriano Ave.. NW5.
Thursday, 27th March – 7.30 pm, 2008 Torriano Benefit Reading with Ann Drysdale and June English, at the Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, London. WC1.
Thursday, 13th March – 7.30 pm. 2008, Reading with Mimi Khalvati, Leah Fritz and Eva Salzman for International Women’s Day, at Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London. N6 5HG.
Friday, 15th February, 8pm. 2008, Reading with Joanna Boulter for Border Poets Tullie House, Castle Street Carlisle, CA3 8TP
Friday, 14th December, 2007 - 8 pm, 2007 Reading with Jessica D’Este for Bloomsbury Voices The Artworkers’ Guild 6 Queen’s Square, London. WC1
Wednesday, November 21, 1 – 3 pm., 2007 Poetry workshop, Hornsey Library, N.8. Word for Word
Saturday, November 17, – 7.30 p.m., 2007 Reading with Myra Schneider, Jacqueline Gabbitas, Valerie Josephs and Sue Rose. Neighbourhood Centre, next to St. Mary’s Church, Upper Street, Islsington. N.1.
Saturday, 27th October, -- 10.30 am – 16.30 pm, 2007 Poetry workshop co-presented with John Whitworth Dover Discovery Centre, Dover, Kent. Deal & Dover Poetry Festival
Saturday, 20th October - 3.15 - 5pm. , 2007  Reading with William Oxley and Rik Wilkinson,   Belgrave Hotel, Belgrave Road, Torquay. TORBAY FESTIVAL OF POETRY
8th - 11th October, 2007 3-Day Poetry-Writing Course in Normandy - Le Moulin, 50410 VILLEBAUDON, France 'Making the Colours New'
Saturday, 29th September - 7.30 p.m., 2007  Reading with Maggie Butt, John Killick, and Martyn Crucefix,   St. John's Church, Green Lanes, Palmers Green. N13. Wood Green tube, 329 bus POETRY IN PALMERS GREEN  
Sunday, 16th September - 12.30 pm – 3.30 pm, 2007 POETRY WORKSHOP 147 Inkerman Street, East St. Kilda. The Australian Poetry Centre, ‘Glenfern’
Sunday, 16th September - 4.00 – 5.30 pm, 2007 POETRY SALON: Readings and conversation with Alex Skovron 417 Inkerman Street, East St. Kilda. The Australian Poetry Centre, ‘Glenfern’
Tuesday, 11th September - 3 – 5 pm, 2007 READING and TALK with students at La Trobe University, Lecture- Poetry & Desire – Katherine Gallagher talks about her poetry, and the relationship between poetry and autobiography, developments of poetic technique and form, and the developments in her poetry over thirty years. La Trobe University, 3086 Melbourne, Australia
Sunday, 9th September , 2007 LAUNCH and READING, ‘Coolock’ Barkly Street, Bendigo, 3550., Australia
Saturday, 8th September – 2 – 5 pm., 2007 Reading with Diane Fahey POETRY & MUSIC, The Bush Inn, 58 Corio Street, Geelong., Australia
Saturday, 28th July, 2007   ‘Writing in Railway Fields’, 2 x 1 hour Poetry workshops:   Off Green Lanes, cnr. Umfreville Rd., Harringay. - Manor House tube. Workshops lead by Katherine Gallagher
Sunday, 15th July  <, 2007/td> ‘Writing Markfield Park’, 2 x Poetry workshops   - 10.30 – 12.30 for 7 – 11s   - 13.30 - 15.30 for adults   Markfield Road, N15, South Tottenham Rail. Workshops lead by Katherine Gallagher
Saturday, 14th July – 2 p.m., 2007  Reading with Anna Robinson,  Swiss Cottage Market, Eton Ave., Swiss Cottage NW3. - Swiss Cottage tube Readers: Anna Robinson and Katherine Gallagher
Sunday, 1st July, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.  Reading with Beata Duncan,  Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Ave., London. NW5.- Kentish Town tube. Readers: Beata Duncan and Katherine Gallagher
Friday, 22nd June, 2007 – 7:30 p.m.  Reading for ‘Antipodean Childhoods: Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand’,  Fifth Annual Meeeting of the Australian and New Zealand Studies Group, Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Reader: Katherine Gallagher 
Friday, 20th April, 2007 – 8 p.m. Reading for Ver Poets, St. Michael’s Parish Centre, St. Michael’s Street, St. Albans Readers: Martyn Crucefix and Katherine Gallagher 
Thursday, 29th March, 2007 Reading and Afternoon Workshop. School of English, Percy Building, Newcastle University, Newcastle contact Melanie Birch on 0191 222 7619, melanie.birch@ncl.ac.uk
Saturday, 10th March, 2007 - 7 – 9 p.m. Reading in the Deal & Dover Split the Lark Poetry Festival Cleary Hall, The Landmark Centre, 192 High Street, Deal, Kent. CT14 6RB. Readers: Maurice Riordan and Katherine Gallagher 
Monday, 5th March, 2007 - 8 p.m. Reading Coffee-House Poetry, Troubadour, 265 Old Brompton Road, SW5. Earls Court tube. Readers: Kathryn Maris, Tim Cunningham, Robert Seatter, Nancy Mattson, Anthony Wilson and Katherine Gallagher 
Saturday, 3rd March, 2007 - 7.30 p.m. Launch Reading from Circus-Apprentice at Salisbury House, Salisbury House, Bury Street West, Edmonton, N9, Wood Green tube then 329 bus. Readers from the floor 
Tuesdays, 27 February, 6 March, 12 March, 20 March, 27 March, 2007  Spread the Word Workshop   The Forum@Greenwich, Trafalgar Road, London.. Workshops lead by Katherine Gallagher. This five-week course offers new and diverse ways to get into writing poetry in a lively and supportive environment.
17th December, 2006, 7.30 p.m.  Reading  Torriano, 99 Torriano Avenue, London. NW5. (Kentish Town tube).  Readers: Gerda Mayer and Katherine Gallagher 
16th December, 2006, 7.30 p.m.  Launch of Circus-Apprentice  Palmers Green Bookshop, 379 Green Lanes, London, N13., Wood Green tube, then 329 bus.  Launch of Circus-Apprentice at the Palmers Green Bookshop 
9th December, 2006, 7.30 p.m.  Reading  Palmers Green Bookshop, 379 Green Lanes, London, N13., Wood Green tube, then 329 bus.  Reading for 'Images of Women' launch with Myra Schneider and others, for Second Light Palmers Green Bookshop 
29th November, 2006, 6.30 p.m  Launch Circus-Apprentice  Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, The Australia Centre, Cnr. Strand & Melbourne Place, London. WC2B 4LG. (Holborn tube, then down Kingsway to Aldwych)  Reading from Circus-Apprentice including After Kandinsky poems to accompaniment of cello (Kwesi Edman) and flute (Ian Henderson), music by Kwesi Edman.  
25th November, 2006, 7.30 p.m.  Reading   Art Worker's Guild, 6 Queen Square, London. WC1., Russell Square tube.  Reading with U.A. Fanthorpe, Anna Adams, Judith Kazantzis, Esther Morgan, Pascale Petit, Myra Schneider, Penelope Shuttle, Kate Foley and Rosie Bailey for Anthology Launch of 'Images of Women'  
17th October, 2006, 7 p.m.  Reading   Lauderdale House, Waterlow Park, Highgate Hill, Highgate, London, N6. Archway tube.  Reading with Moniza Alvi 
14th October, 2006, 7.30 p.m.  Reading  Burford Hall, Palmers Green United Reformed Church, Fox Lane, Palmers Green, London, N13 4AL  Reading with Martyn Crucefix, Peter Phillips, Myra Schneider, John Weston and others for National Hospice Day Reading 
26th September, 2006, 9.50 a.m.  Reading   University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Tremough, Penryn, Cornwall. TR10 9EZ.  Reading with Martin Harrison and Graeme Kinross-Smith at British-Australian Studies Conference 
22nd March, 2006, 7:30 p.m.  Reading  Don Bank Museum, 6 Napier Street, North Sydney  Guest reader at the Don Bank Live Poets, Sydney - Launch of After Kandinsky (Vagabond 2005) 
29th October, 2005, 7.30 p.m.  Reading  Trinity United Reformed Church, Camden Town, London. NW1.  Guest reader with Mimi Khalvati, Patricia McCarthy, Fiona Sampson, Penelope Shuttle and Myra Schneider 
17th September, 2005, 7.30 p.m.  Reading  Palmers Green Bookshop, 379 Green Lanes, London. N13 4JG  Guest reader with Jane Duran, June English, and Myra Schneider 
September 17, 2005 - 2.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.  Workshop  United Reformed Church, Fox Lane, Palmers Green, N13  Workshop for poets and prose writers: 'I Write Myself': surprising journeys, special journeys, journeys not taken - using the autobiographical to slant in and explore other voices. For new and experienced writers. 
26th July, 2005, 5.15 p.m.  Reading  Menzies Australian Studies Centre,28 Russell Square, London. WC1  Guest reader with others for the launch of Agenda Magazine's double-Australian issue 


Top - To Contents