Kate Fagan (poet)


Kate Fagan is an Australian poet, musician and academic.

Career

She gained her PhD at the University of Sydney with a doctoral thesis on the poetics of Lyn Hejinian. She is now a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney in poetry. She is a former editor of How2, a US-based online journal of innovative poetry and poetics. She is also a songwriter and performer whose album Diamond Wheel won the National Film & Sound Archive Award for Best Folk Album.
Fagan comes from a family of folk singers and was strongly influenced by traditional ballads. She has said that, whether she writes songs or poems, she feels the same need to create a lyrical work, and that, to her, "lyricism is a heightened awareness of the music of relations between things".
She has published numerous poems in journals and has published several collections. It has been said of her poetry that it is characterised by a fractured language which incorporates the variety of everyday experience, and reflects the way the mind uses language to assimilate that experience.
Fagan is married to Australian poet Peter Minter and has two children.

Selected publications

Chapters in books