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Rhian GallagherRhian Gallagher

Rhian Gallagher’s first poetry collection Salt Water Creek (Enitharmon Press, 2003) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. In 2008 she received the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. Her second poetry collection Shift, (Auckland University Press 2011, Enitharmon Press, UK, 2012) won the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry. Rhian was the Robert Burns Fellow in 2018. Her forthcoming poetry collection Far-Flung is being published by AUP in August 2020.

The Friday Poem: At The Boatshed by Rhian Gallagher

7 August 2020 by Rhian Gallagher

A poem by Rhian Gallagher from her new collection Far-Flung. At the Boatshed for Sonja Mitchell We carried the day through the door the harbour had earned its keep light laid its hands on each contour the shed held abreast with the shore spreading the waves in pleats we carried the day through the door … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags New Zealand Literature, Rhian Gallagher, The Friday Poem

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