Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems

About Katherine Gallagher

Katherine Gallagher was born in 1935 in Maldon Victoria graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1963 and taught in Melbourne for five years before moving to Europe living first in London and then in Paris for nine years. In 1979 she moved back to London working as a secondary teacher and after 1990 as a poetry tutor for the Open College of the Arts Jackson's Lane Barnet College and Torriano London. During this time she co-edited Poetry London as well as working extensively with primary school children. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Writing in Education. In 1978 she was awarded a Writer's Fellowship from the Literature Board Australia Council and in 1981 she won the Brisbane Warana Poetry Prize. Her book Passengers to the City (Hale & Iremonger Sydney 1985) was shortlisted for the John Bray National Poetry Award. She also writes children's poetry and many of her children's poems have appeared in anthologies. In 1994 her translation from French of Jean-Jacques Celly's poems The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay introduced by Peter Florence was published by Forest Books London. In 2000 she was awarded a Royal Literary Fund Award. From 2002-8 she was Education Officer for Writers Inc and was Writer in Residence at Railway Fields Nature Reserve Harringay London July-October 2002. In 2008 she received a London Society of Authors' Foundation Award. Her poems were featured on the A.B.C's POETICA programme Radio National in June 2009. She has read her poetry at festivals and universities in the UK Australia Germany Italy and France and her poems have been translated into French German Hebrew Italian Romanian and Serbian. www.katherine-gallagher.com