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  • Author:agent Sarah Day http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/day-sarah
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Tempo
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T'ime and motion are undercurrents in these new poems by Sarah Day. Her subjects encompass the commonplace in the Australian landscape: the remnant beak of a raven, tree shadows in urban streets, industrial cranes and mowing-machines, as well as the exotic or peculiar: the world seed bank in Norway, artefacts in Pompeii, Graeco-Egyptian funeral portraits, the landscape paintings of John Glover, the Earth as seen from elsewhere in the Milky Way. These poems, individually and collectively, invite questions about the enigmatic nature of past, present and future.' (Publisher's blurb)

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Works about this Work

Sarah Day, Tempo and John Upton, Embracing the Razor Margaret Bradstock , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 3 2014;

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; Embracing the Razor John Upton , 2015 selected work poetry
Past and Present Collide as Poets Mark Elusive Time Geoff Page , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; Signal Flare Anthony Lawrence , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Book of Ethel Jordie Albiston , 2013 selected work poetry
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review Martin Langford , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow Jakob Ziguras , 2013 selected work poetry ; Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012 anthology poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry

'The veins of good work keep getting richer, and the number of poets capable of writing at a level that demands attention continues to grow. From Lisa Gorton's meditations on our emotionally inflected habitations, to Sarah Day's desire to find the words for the presences she encounters; from a selection of more than fifty years' poetry from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, to new work sparked by confrontations between Asian and eastern European traditions on the one hand, and the experience of Australia on the other: each year, Australian poetry is looking more and more like a world. Whatever forces encourage us to operate transnationally - and some of them are in evidence in these collections - one end of the continuum of practice will be grounded in the regional and national for many years to come. Whether such traditions eventually evaporate before technologies we can still barely imagine - to say nothing of the proliferation of texts, and the difficulty of tracking them - we are nevertheless powering ahead, making them deeper, richer and more various.' (Publication abstract)

The Simultaneous Coexistence of All Time : Stephen Edgar launches ‘Tempo’ by Sarah Day Stephen Edgar , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , December - February no. 10 2013-2014;

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry
The Simultaneous Coexistence of All Time : Stephen Edgar launches ‘Tempo’ by Sarah Day Stephen Edgar , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , December - February no. 10 2013-2014;

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review Martin Langford , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion Lisa Gorton , 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow Jakob Ziguras , 2013 selected work poetry ; Notes for the Translators : From 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets 2012 anthology poetry ; Contemporary Asian Australian Poets 2013 anthology poetry

'The veins of good work keep getting richer, and the number of poets capable of writing at a level that demands attention continues to grow. From Lisa Gorton's meditations on our emotionally inflected habitations, to Sarah Day's desire to find the words for the presences she encounters; from a selection of more than fifty years' poetry from Chris Wallace-Crabbe, to new work sparked by confrontations between Asian and eastern European traditions on the one hand, and the experience of Australia on the other: each year, Australian poetry is looking more and more like a world. Whatever forces encourage us to operate transnationally - and some of them are in evidence in these collections - one end of the continuum of practice will be grounded in the regional and national for many years to come. Whether such traditions eventually evaporate before technologies we can still barely imagine - to say nothing of the proliferation of texts, and the difficulty of tracking them - we are nevertheless powering ahead, making them deeper, richer and more various.' (Publication abstract)

Past and Present Collide as Poets Mark Elusive Time Geoff Page , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; Signal Flare Anthony Lawrence , 2013 selected work poetry ; The Book of Ethel Jordie Albiston , 2013 selected work poetry
Sarah Day, Tempo and John Upton, Embracing the Razor Margaret Bradstock , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 3 2014;

— Review of Tempo Sarah Day , 2013 selected work poetry ; Embracing the Razor John Upton , 2015 selected work poetry
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