Sarah Day

Sarah Day (born 1958) is an English-born Australian poet and teacher.[1] She was also the poetry editor of Island Magazine for several years.

Biography

Sarah E Day was born in Lancashire, England, in 1958 and grew up in Hobart, Tasmania.[2][3]

Bibliography
  • A Hunger to Be Less Serious (1987), (winner of the Anne Elder Award for a first volume of poetry)
  • A Madder Dance[4] (1992)
  • Quickening[4] (1997)
  • Easter Train[5] (2000)
  • New and Selected Poems[6](2002)
  • The Ship (2004) Brandl & Schlesinger, Blackheath NSW ISBN 1876040599
  • Grass Notes (2009) Brandl & Schlesinger, Blackheath NSW ISBN 9781921556081
  • Tempo (c.2013) Puncher and Wattman, Glebe NSW ISBN 9781922186379
  • Mussolini's Island (2017) Tinder Press, London ISBN 9781472238207
  • Towards Light & Other Poems (2018) Puncher and Wattman, Glebe NSW ISBN 9781925780024

Awards and recognition

Day's 2004 book, The Ship, won the Queensland Premier's Award and Judith Wright Calanthe Award for poetry (2005), and the University of Melbourne Wesley Michelle Wright Prize (2004)).[7][8]

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References
  1. Sarah Day
  2. Poetica - 11 May 2002 - Sarah Day - Undermining the Poetry of Sarah Day
  3. Sarah Day
  4. Kinsella, John (1999). Landbridge: Contemporary Australian Poetry. Lancashire: Arc Publications. p. 327. ISBN 1 900072 40 8.
  5. Famous Reporter # 22, poetry: Sarah Day, 'Easter Train'
  6. "Arc Publications Catalogue". Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  7. Famous Reporter # 30, Peter Boyle's review of 'The Ship' (Sarah Day)
  8. Day, Sarah (2004), The ship, Brandl & Schlesinger, ISBN 978-1-876040-59-8


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