Kate Newmann
Kate Newmann | |
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 Kate Newmann in 2014 | |
| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) Dromore, County Down |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Writing career | |
| Genre | Poetry |
Kate Newmann (born 1965) is an Irish poet and founder of the small poetry press Summer Palace Press.
Life and work
[edit]Kate Newmann was born in 1965 in Dromore, County Down. She is the daughter of the poet Joan Newmann.[1] Educated in Cambridge, an English graduate with an MA from King's College, Cambridge she went on to be a junior fellow at the Institute for Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast. She was the editor and compiler of The Dictionary of Ulster Biography, published in 1993.[2][3]
She is co-founder, with her mother of the Summer Palace Press, begun in 1999, and lives in Kilcar near Killybegs, Donegal.[2][3]
Awards
[edit]- William Allingham Poetry Award [4]
- The Swansea Award [4]
- The Listowel Festival single poem award.
- Roundyhouse Poetry Prize [4]
- Irish Arts Council Bursary 2007 recipient [5]
- 2008 Commended in the National Poetry Competition[6]
- Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Trust Fellowship, 2025 [7]
Review by John McAuliffe in the Irish Times:[8]
Newmann knows her subjects must not be understood as an exception or aberration: the book's most effective poems are those which struggle into quandaries, linking the Holocaust to a world we recognise.[...] Grim is a challenging book, but there is nothing glib about the way it responds to its historical material.
Published works
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Joan Newmann". Ricorso. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- 1 2 "Summer Palace Press".
- 1 2 "Irish Writers Online". Archived from the original on 1 March 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Kate Newmann". John Hewitt Society. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- ↑ "Maine guest writers". Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ↑ "Poetry Society UK".
- ↑ "Poems by Kate Newmann". Verseville. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
- ↑ "Poetry Review". The Irish Times.
- ↑ "Dictionary of Ulster Biography". Google Books. Retrieved 22 September 2026.
Further reading
[edit]- The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets - Poems and Essays Edited and Presented by Joan McBreen 2009
- Christine St. Peter, 'In Conversation with Joan and Kate Newmann: Irish Poets and Publishers', in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies/Revue canadienne d'études irlandaises, 28, 2/29, 1 (Fall 2002/Spring 2003), pp.148-53.
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