Circus Apprentice - Couverture souple

Gallagher, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904614027 ISBN 13 : 9781904614029

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2006

Synopsis

Entente It's that time of the morning when the suburbs are pure, stripped clean, and the birds are out, not changing the subject whatever it is – with sometimes a rush of song, as one by one they fit into their feathers. Just now there's one who chatters, never stops, and there's one who listens, occasionally answers – an audience of one is enough.

Divided into five sections – poems about the landscape and the environment; about personalities and lives, love poems (with variations); poems on general subjects but from a personal perspective, and a sequence of poems entitled 'After Kandinsky' – Circus Apprentice is a powerful collection that demonstrates Katherine Gallagher's considerable poetic talents and will certainly be well-received by all those familiar with her work.

Katherine Gallagher is a well-known and popular performer at poetry venues throughout the London area. She was born in 1935 in Maldon, Victoria, graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1963 and taught in Melbourne before moving to Europe, living first in London and then in Paris. 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 and Barnet College, London. During this time she co-edited Poetry London as well as working extensively with primary school children. 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 and Iremonger, Sydney, 1985) was shortlisted for the Australian National Poetry Award.

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À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Gallagher was born in 1935 in Australia, graduating from the University of Melbourne and teaching in Melbourne before moving to Europe in 1969. Living first in London, then in Paris, she moved back to London, where she worked as a secondary school teacher and as a poetry tutor for the Open College of the Arts, Jackson’s Lane, Barnet College and Torriano. During this time she co-edited Poetry London.
In 1978, she was awarded a New 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 (1985) was shortlisted for the 1986 Adelaide Festival John Bray National Poetry Award and in 1987, she was one of five poets representing Australia at the Struga Poetry Festival.

Her second book, Fish-rings on Water, introduced by Peter Porter, appeared in 1989 and in 2000, her third full collection, Tigers on the Silk Road was published by Arc. Three further collections followed from Arc: Circus-Apprentice (2006), Carnival Edge (2010) and Acres of Light (2016). Her translation of Jean-Jacques Celly’s poetry collection, Le Somnambule Aux Yeux d’Argile (The Sleepwalker with Eyes of Clay) was published in 1994
Katherine has received, among other accolades, a Royal Literary Fund Award in 2000 and two London Society of Authors’ Foundation Awards, in 2008 and 2021 respectively.

She has read her poetry at festivals and universities in the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Italy and France and her poems have been translated into French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Romanian and Serbo-Croat.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904614027
• ISBN 13: 9781904614029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 104
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible