Kate Camp |
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Kate Camp was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington, NZ. She is
a poet, prose writer and reviewer. Her first collection of poetry,
Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, won the NZSA
Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the 1999
The Montana NZ
Book Awards, and was highly praised by reviewers.
Kate Camp is literate yet hip, culturally attuned and funky...
This poet skips easily through various fields of reference, medical,
economic, anthropological, literary, pop-culture, collecting and
bringing home specimens as good poets do... If her first collection
is this good, what will the second be like?
Cath Kenneally LANDFALL
Her poems have appeared in magazines and journals including Landfall,
New Zealand Books, North and South, NZ Listener, Sport, Takahe and
the Sunday Star Times 2000AD magazine. She is the voice of "Kate's Klassics," monthly conversations on classic literature with National Radio's Kim Hill.
Realia,
Kate’s second collection of poetry, was published in July 2001
by Victoria University Press. Kate was appointed Writer
in Residence at Waikato University in 2002.
Kate published her third collection, Beauty Sleep in November 2005.
One of her poems "Unfinished Love Theorem" was selected for the online collection Best NZ Poems 2001. "Winston Peters with apologies to Robert Frost" was named as one of the Best New Zealand Poems 2002. "The Insomniac Learns a Lot" was one of the Best New Zealand Poems 2003