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Profile
Kate Camp is one of the most startling and original poets in New Zealand
today. Her poems are constantly alive to wider social and political contexts,
even – or especially – when they are at their most personal. She
can be at once playful and intensely serious: her words move effortlessly between
the inspired and the everyday, and there is electricity in the spaces in between.
Selected published works
Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, 1998, winner of the Jessie
Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry 1999; Realia, 2001; On
Kissing, 2002; Beauty Sleep, 2005.
Publishers
Victoria University Press www.vuw.ac.nz/vup
Biography
Kate Camp was born in 1972 and has a BA(Hons) degree from Victoria University
of Wellington. Her first collection of poetry, Unfamiliar Legends of the
Stars, won the New Zealand Society of Authors’ Jessie Mackay Award
for Best First Book of Poetry at the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, and
was highly praised by critics.
Camp’s poems have appeared in a range of New Zealand magazines and journals.
She has contributed a column to Wellington’s Evening Post newspaper,
and is a regular guest on Radio New Zealand reviewing modern and classic literature.
Camp was appointed writer-in-residence at Waikato University in 2002. One of
her poems, Unfinished Love Theorem, was selected for the online collection
Best New Zealand Poems 2001.
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