Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems

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.

Carnival Edge: New & Selected Poems is Katherine Gallagher's third book from Arc, and draws together the best work from five of her previous collections, together with a substantial body of new work.Gallagher is a prolific and popular poet, and this comprehensive new collection will delight her many devotees, both in the UK and in her native Australia."Katherine Gallagher has an aesthetic purity which combines introspection with an outward focus... Her verse is sometimes simply beautiful, at other times tragically moving, but always technically brilliant."Envoi"Gallagher has always been a poet of quiet observation, meditating on her experiences as a traveler or watching small domestic moments... There can be no doubt that Gallagher's poetry has become more confident and complex over time. The early poems, usually no longer than a page, meditate on an observation or a memory, while her more recent work is more ambitious."Australian Book Review"No word is wasted in Katherine's poems; she effortlessly glides into metaphor, playful inversions and unexpected turns of thought. She has an artist's eye for colour and line, a musician's ear for rhythm, tone and key, and a poet's skill in selection of the best word."Anna Avebury"Carnival Edge not only withstands repeated reading, it invites it. It is a work that demands that it be taken up by poets and explored, so that it can reveal its richnesses, and show further ways in which poetry can be explored... having read Carnival Edge a number of times, I can only say that these prospects excite me enormously."The Australian ReaderKatherine Gallagher is a widely-acclaimed poet with six books published as well as four chapbooks. Born in Australia, Gallagher has lived and worked in London since 1979. She has been an active force in the community, giving poetry readings, running workshops (for adults and children), judging poetry competitions, and participating in poetry festivals. Her work has been widely reviewed. Gallagher also translates from the French and her own poetry has been translated into French, German, Italian, Romanian, and Serbian. Her two previous collections are Tigers on a Silk Road and Circus-Apprentice.This book is also available as a eBook. Buy it from Amazon here.

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