Rhian Gallagher
{{short description|New Zealand poet (born 1961)}}
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Rhian Gallagher (born 1961) is a poet from New Zealand.
Background
Gallagher was born in 1961 in Timaru, New Zealand. She currently lives in Dunedin.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writer/gallagher-rhian/|title=Rhian Gallagher|website=New Zealand Book Council|access-date=26 November 2017}}
Career
Between 1995 and 2005, Gallagher worked in publishing in London before returning to New Zealand.{{Cite news|url=https://enitharmon.co.uk/authors/rhian-gallagher-2/|title=Rhian Gallagher|work=Enitharmon Editions|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en-US}} Her first poetry collection, Salt Water Creek, was published in 2003.{{Cite book|url=https://enitharmon.co.uk/product/salt-water-creek/|title=Salt Water Creek|last=Gallagher|first=Rhian|publisher=Enitharmon Editions|year=2003|isbn=9781900564380}} In 2012, she published her second collection, Shift.{{Cite book|url=http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/en/browse-books/all-books/books-2011/Shift.html|title=Shift|last=Gallagher|first=Rhian|publisher=Auckland University Press|year=2011|isbn=9781869404871}}
Poetry by Gallagher has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies including Best New Zealand Poems,{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/bnzp/2003/contents.htm|title=Best New Zealand Poems 2003|website=www.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=26 November 2017}} 121 New Zealand Poems,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYQuAAAACAAJ|title=121 New Zealand Poems|last=Manhire|first=Bill|publisher=Godwit|year=2005|isbn=9781869621148}} The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape,{{Cite book|url=http://www.pottonandburton.co.nz/store/the-nature-of-things|title=The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape|editor-last=Brown|editor-first=James |publisher=Potton and Burton|year=2005|isbn=9781877333330}} and The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems.{{Cite book|url=http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/the-best-of-best-new-zealand-poems/|title=The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems|last1=Manhire|first1=Bill|last2=Wilkins|first2=Damien|publisher=Victoria University Press|isbn=9780864736512}}
In 2010 the South Canterbury Museum published her non-fiction biography of mountaineer Jack Adamson entitled Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson.{{Cite news|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago662523.html?platform=hootsuite|title=Prestigious University of Otago Arts Fellowships announced|work=University of Otago|access-date=26 November 2017|language=en-nz}}
Gallagher collaborated with artist Lynn Taylor and printer Sarah Smith to create the artist book Freda Du Faur, Southern Alps 1909-1913, celebrating the life and achievements of Freda Du Faur, the first woman to climb Aoraki/Mount Cook.{{Cite web|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/otagofellows/burns.html|title=The Robert Burns Fellowship, Otago Fellows|website=University of Otago, New Zealand|language=en-nz|access-date=26 November 2017}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/project-follows-spirit-du-faur|title=Project follows spirit of Du Faur|date=19 August 2016|work=Otago Daily Times |access-date=26 November 2017|language=en}}
Awards
Salt Water Creek was shortlisted for the 2003 Forward Prize for First Collection.{{Cite web|url=http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/forward-prizes-for-poetry/forward-alumni/|title=Forward Alumni|website=Forward Arts Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=26 November 2017}}
The Canterbury History Foundation awarded Gallagher the 2007 Canterbury Community Historian Award which supported the publication of Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chf.org.nz/content/community-historian|title=Community Historian|website=Canterbury History Foundation|language=en|access-date=26 November 2017}}
In 2008 she was awarded the Janet Frame Award for Poetry.{{Cite web|url=http://www.janetframe.org.nz/default.htm|title=Janet Frame Literary Trust|website=Janet Frame|access-date=26 November 2017}} Her poem 'Embrace' placed third in the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition.{{Cite web|url=http://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/embrace/|title=Embrace|website=The Poetry Society|language=en-GB|access-date=26 November 2017}}
In the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards, Shift won New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners-by-author?letter=G|title=Past Winners by Author|website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust|access-date=26 November 2017}} The collection was included in the New Zealand Listener's Best Books of 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2011/100-best-books-of-2011/|title=100 Best Books of 2011|last=Noted|website=The Listener|language=en|access-date=26 November 2017}}
Gallagher held the 2018 University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship.
Works
=Poetry=
- Salt Water Creek (Enitharmon Press, 2003)
- Shift (Auckland University Press, 2011; Enitharmon Press, 2012)
- Freda Du Faur, Southern Alps 1909-1913 (Otakou Press, 2016)
- Far-Flung (Auckland University Press, 2020)
=Non-Fiction=
- Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson (South Canterbury Museum, 2010)
References
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Category:New Zealand fiction writers
Category:New Zealand women poets