Kate Camp
Poet and essayist Kate Camp was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington. She is the winner of many prestigious awards, including the 2011 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers’ Residency and the 2017 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship.
She is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (2020), and a collection of autobiographical essays, You Probably Think This Song Is About You (2022).
Her latest books are the memoir Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary and Makeshift Seasons, a poetry collection.
Find Kate's books at UBS - University Bookshop Canterbury.
Image: Ebony Lamb
Events at WORD
The Poetry Powerhouse
Gather your crew and soak up the energy of this spirited live poetry showcase.
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Leather & Chains - Live!
In Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary, poet Kate Camp interrogates her teenage accounts of sex, drugs, and risk-taking. See it unfold on stage!
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