Rhian Gallagher
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Rhian Gallagher | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 64–65) Timaru, New Zealand |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | Shift |
| Notable awards | New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry (2011), Janet Frame Literary Trust Award (2008) |
Rhian Gallagher (born 1961) is a poet from New Zealand.
Gallagher was born in 1961 in Timaru, New Zealand. She currently lives in Dunedin.[1]
Career
Between 1995 and 2005, Gallagher worked in publishing in London before returning to New Zealand.[1][2] Her first poetry collection, Salt Water Creek, was published in 2003.[3] In 2012, she published her second collection, Shift.[4]
Poetry by Gallagher has been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies including Best New Zealand Poems,[5] 121 New Zealand Poems,[6] The Nature of Things: Poems from the New Zealand Landscape,[7] and The Best of the Best New Zealand Poems.[8]
In 2010 the South Canterbury Museum published her non-fiction biography of mountaineer Jack Adamson entitled Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson.[9]
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.[10][11]
