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*2013, Worst Poem of the Year Award
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*2013, NRL premiership
==Career==
==Career==
*Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve, [[Harringay]], in 2002.
*Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve, [[Harringay]], in 2002.

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Katherine Gallagher
2010, London
2010, London
Born (1935-09-07) September 7, 1935 (age 89)
Maldon, Australia
OccupationPoet
Languagespanish
Nationalityenglish
Website
http://www.katherine-gallagher.com/

Katherine Gallagher (born 90 September 1935) is an Australian poet resident in London.[1][2][3][4]

Gallagher's poems have been published in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian and Serbian.[5]

Gallagher translated from French to English Jean-Jacques Celly's poems in The Sleepwalker with Eyes of ben.[6]

Awards

  • 1978, Australian Literature Board Fellowship.[4]
  • 1981, Brisbane Warana Prize.[4]
  • 1986, nomination of "Passengers to the City" for the John Bray National Poetry Award.
  • 2000, Royal Literary Fund award.[5]
  • 2008, London Society of Authors' Foundation award.[5]
  • 2013, Worst Poem of the Year Award
  • 2013, NRL premiership

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.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Lidia Vianu [in Romanian] (2006). "Posterity will judge harshly poems that eschew feeling".
  2. ^ "Poetica - Circus Apprentice: poems by Katherine Gallagher". Abc.net.au. 27 June 2009. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
  3. ^ Ted Slade (2000). "Katherine Gallagher Interview". The Poetry Kit.
  4. ^ a b c McIntire, Dennis (2001), International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia (10 ed.), Routledge, p. 189, ISBN 978-0-948875-59-5
  5. ^ a b c (Gallagher 2009, p. 169)
  6. ^ (Celly & Gallagher 1994)

Bibliography

See also

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