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Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems de Katherine Gallagher

Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems

Autor Katherine Gallagher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
This collection draws work from 5 of Gallagher's previous collections, together with a substantial body of new work. Born in Australia, Gallagher moved to Paris before settling in London. She draws on a rich inheritance from these different worlds in her poetry, which is always rooted in a passionate sense of discovery and attention to place.
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ISBN-13: 9781906570422
ISBN-10: 1906570426
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Arc Publications

Notă biografică

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

Cuprins

from THE EYE'S CIRCLE: Shapes within a Pattern / 15 from PASSANGERS TO THE CITY: Song for an Unborn / 21, Firstborn / 22, For Julien at Six Weeks / 23, At the Playground / 24, Distances / 25, The Trapeze-Artist's First Performance / 26, Itinerants / 27, Zelda Fitzgerald Practising Ballet / 28, The Survivor / 29, Maldon, Old Mining Town / 30, Homecoming / 32, Wimmera Windscreen / 33, Leaving / 34, Getting the Electricity On / 35, Woman in a Tableau / 36, Chartres Cathedral / 37, The Long Reach Out of War / 38, Unknown Soldier / 39, Dividing-line / 40, Domestic / 41, Momentums / 42, Passengers to the City / 43, The White Boat / 44, Concerning the Fauna / 45, Night in the Suburbs / 46 Kandinsky Journey / 47, The Magic of Hands / 48, November, Bois de Vincennes / 49, Lost / 50 from FISH_RINGS ON WATER: International / 53, Firstborn / 54, A Girl's Head / 55, Nettie Palmer to Frank Wilmot ('Furnley Maurice') / 56, Eastville, 1939 / 58, Relic / 59, Ghosts / 59, Plane-Journey Momentums / 60, Art Class on Observatory Hill, Sydney / 61, Near Keith, South Australia / 62, Scene on the Loire / 63, To Joe: In Memoriam / 63, Homecoming / 64, Alone on a Beach / 66, First Time / 67, The Affair / 68, Lines for an Ex / 69, Poem for the Executioners / 69, Political Prisoners / 70, After Kathe Kollwitz - 'The Face of War' / 71, Girl teasing Cat with Mouse / 72, Tree Planting at Alexandra Park / 73 from TIGERS ON THE SILK ROAD: 1969 / 77, In Memoriam for my Brother / 80, Dancing / 81, Jet Lag / 82, Frost Country / 83, 1942 / 85, River Murray Reunion / 86, My Mother's Garden / 88, The Gondola at Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice / 89, Poem for a Shallot / 90, Reckoning / 91, The Ash Tree / 92, Thirteen / 93, Knebworth Park / 94, A Visit to the War Memorial, Canberra / 95, Slippage / 97, The Lines on Her Palm / 99, Hunger / 100, Poinsettias / 101 from CIRCUS-APPRENTICE: Entente / 111, Laanecoorie / 112, The Year of the Tree / 114, Hedge / 116, Summer Odyssey / 117, From the Sahel / 119, Winter Hyacinths / 120, Hybrid / 121, Thinking of My Mother on the Anniversary of Her Death / 122, Gwen John swims the Channel / 123, Circus-Apprentice / 124, Keeper / 125, GM Scientist / 126, Tanka for a Hero / 127, Priests / 129, Girl on a Bolting Horse / 130, Nomad / 130, On the Pass from Kathmandu / 131, At Delphi / 132, Love Cinquains / 133, The Lesson / 134, Dancing on the Farm / 135, The Last War / 136, Itinerant / 137, Cloud-eye / 138, After Kandinsky - Grey Forms (1922) / 139, In the Black Square (1923) / 140, Horizontal (1924) / 140, Contrasting Sounds (1924) / 141, Blue Painting (1924) / 142, Yellow, Red, Blue (1925) / 143, Balancing (1925) / 144, Tension in Red (1926) / 144, Homage to Grohmann (1926) / 145, Counterweights (1926) / 146, Points along the Arc (1927) / 147 NEW POEMS: Biodiversity / 151, Seeing the Hand / 152, Take-off / 153, Fledgling / 154, The Dance / 155, La Fleuraison / 156, South Beach / 158, Manifesto / 159, Nostalgia Sonnet / 160, The Wild Colonial Boys / 161, Au Pays de la Somme / 162, Common Grounds / 163, The View / 164, Genealogy / 165, Soundings / 166, Snow-fire / 168 Biographical Note / 169