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Occupation
  
Poet

Name
  
Katherine Gallagher

Role
  
Poet


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Born
  
7 September 1935 (age 88) Maldon, Australia (
1935-09-07
)

Books
  
Circus Apprentice, Fish-rings on water, Passengers to the city, Finding the Prince

Katherine Gallagher - 'Year of the Tree'


Katherine Gallagher (born 7 September 1935) is an Australian poet resident in London.

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Gallagher's poems have been published in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian and Serbo-Croate. For Gallagher's poems translated into Hebrew please see this link : https://plus.google.com/101950771769169738406/posts/QTq3ESj6yPv

Gallagher translated from French to English Jean-Jacques Celly's poems in The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay.

Awards

  • 1978, Australian Literature Board Fellowship.
  • 1981, Brisbane Warana Prize.
  • 1986, nomination of "Passengers to the City" for the John Bray National Poetry Award.
  • 2000, Royal Literary Fund award.
  • 2008, London Society of Authors' Foundation award.

    • Career

  • Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Harringay, in 2002.
  • Writers Inc/Blue Nose Poets' Education Officer until 2008. In 2004/2005 this included coordinating the Young Writer's Mentorship Project funded by the Arts Council.
  • Poet in Residence for Havering Council's third annual Parks and Arts Healthy Lifestyle Walk in Hornchurch Country Park on 17 July 2006.
  • Founder of the Poetry Society Stanza Group (London North), started in March 2007.

    • References

    Katherine Gallagher Wikipedia
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