Kate Camp

Kate Camp
Camp in 2012
Camp in 2012
Born1972 (age 51–52)
Wellington, New Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
GenrePoetry
Notable worksUnfamiliar Legends of the Stars
Notable awardsNZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry

Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington.[1]

Early life and education

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Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She attended Onslow College.[2] She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington.[3]

Career

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Poems by Camp have appeared in the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2001,[4] 2002,[5] 2003,[6] 2010,[7] 2012,[8] and 2013.[9] She has also been published in numerous literary magazines, including Landfall, New Zealand Books, New Zealand Listener, Sport, Takahe, Brick (Canada), Akzente (Germany) and Qualm (England).[3][10]

Camp hosted a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show Saturday Morning on Radio New Zealand National.[11] Camp currently works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as the head of marketing and communications.[12]

Awards

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At the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Camp's collection, Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry.[13][14]

In 2011, The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls won the award for poetry at the New Zealand Post Book Awards[13] and was shortlisted for the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award.[3] In 2013, Snow White’s Coffin was a finalist in the Poetry category of the New Zealand Post Book Awards.[3]

In 2006 and 2004 she was shortlisted for the Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters.[15]

Residencies and fellowships

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Camp was a Writer in Residence at Waikato University in 2002. At the conclusion of the residency, her collection On Kissing was published by Four Winds Press.[3]

In 2011 she received the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency[16] and in 2016 she received the prestigious Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.[17]

Selected works

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Camp has published several collections of poems including:

  • Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars (1998, Victoria University Press)
  • Realia (2001, Victoria University Press)
  • Beauty Sleep (2005, Victoria University Press)
  • The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (2010, Victoria University Press)
  • Snow White’s Coffin (2013, Victoria University Press)
  • The Internet of Things (2017, Victoria University Press)

In 2002 she published the collection of essays On Kissing.[18]

In 2022 she published the memoir You Probably Think This Song Is About You.[19] Newsroom made it their book of the week.[20]

References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kate Camp.
  1. ^ "Kate Camp". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Writers Festival author tells of mischievous childhood". NZ Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Kate Camp". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Best New Zealand Poems 2001". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Best New Zealand Poems 2002". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Best New Zealand Poems 2003". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2010". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2012". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Contents of Best New Zealand Poems 2013". victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Kate Camp". The Arts Foundation. 11 November 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Kate's Klassics". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Kate Camp – first impressions at Te Papa". Friends of Te Papa. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  14. ^ "Kate Camp". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  15. ^ "Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters". Christchurch City Libraries. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  16. ^ "Kate Camp awarded Creative New Zealand Writers Residency". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  17. ^ "Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship". The Arts Foundation. 21 December 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  18. ^ Camp, Kate (2002). On Kissing. Four Winds Press. ISBN 9780958237505.
  19. ^ North, Heidi (10 July 2022). "The many humiliations of Kate Camp". The Spinoff. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  20. ^ Macdonald, Theo (30 June 2022). "Book of the Week: Theo draws Kate Camp". The Newsroom. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
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