Kate Camp

Kate Camp is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently How To Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected poems published by Victoria University Press in New Zealand and House of Anansi Press in Canada. Her memoir, You Probably Think This Song Is About You, will be published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in July 2022.

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The cover of Kate Camp's annotated diary called Leather & Chains: My 1986 Diary, which shows a person on an old fashioned telephone (holding the receiver to their ear). The background is a handwritten page spread with words like "personal!" written on it.
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Leather & Chains: excerpts from Kate Camp’s 1986 diary

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21 Feb 2026
A photo of the cover of Kate Camp's poetry book, Makeshift Seasons, on a beach.
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Why I won’t write about swimming

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15 Mar 2025
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No miracle baby to see here

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03 Jul 2022
a pile of calendare dates sort of crumpled looking
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The Friday Poem: Amortisation, by Kate Camp

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27 May 2022
Group of girls (8-10) holding hands in circle, elevated view
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The Friday Poem: How to Be Happy Though Human by Kate Camp

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28 Aug 2020
Close up of yellow eyes on black cat
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The Friday Poem: There is no easy way by Kate Camp

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20 Mar 2020

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