Katherine Gallagher Explained

Birth Date:	1935 9, df=yes
Birth Place:	Maldon, Australia
Occupation:	Poet

Katherine Gallagher (born 7 September 1935) is an Australian poet resident in London.^{[1] [2] [3]} Translations of her poems have appeared in French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian and Serbo-Croat.^[4] 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.

See also

• South Australian Premier's Awards

External links

• Arc Publications
• Society of Authors

Notes and References

1. Web site: Posterity will judge harshly poems that eschew feeling . . 2006.
2. Web site: Poetica - Circus Apprentice: poems by Katherine Gallagher . Abc.net.au . 27 June 2009 . 2010-05-19.
3. Web site: Katherine Gallagher Interview . Ted Slade . 2000 . The Poetry Kit . 19 May 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100716215454/http://www.poetrykit.org/iv00/gallagher.htm. 16 July 2010 . dead.
4. https://plus.google.com/101950771769169738406/posts/QTq3ESj6yPv. For Gallagher's poems translated into Hebrew see