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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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Sarah Day, Tempo and John Upton, Embracing the Razor
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 3 2014;
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; Embracing the Razor 2015 selected work poetry -
Past and Present Collide as Poets Mark Elusive Time
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; Signal Flare 2013 selected work poetry ; The Book of Ethel 2013 selected work poetry -
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow 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)
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The Simultaneous Coexistence of All Time : Stephen Edgar launches ‘Tempo’ by Sarah Day
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , December - February no. 10 2013-2014;
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry
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The Simultaneous Coexistence of All Time : Stephen Edgar launches ‘Tempo’ by Sarah Day
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , December - February no. 10 2013-2014;
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry -
The Pleasure of Well-Made Rooms : Poetry in Review
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 42-51)
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 2013 selected work poetry ; Hotel Hyperion 2013 selected work poetry ; Chains of Snow 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)
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Past and Present Collide as Poets Mark Elusive Time
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 April 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; Signal Flare 2013 selected work poetry ; The Book of Ethel 2013 selected work poetry -
Sarah Day, Tempo and John Upton, Embracing the Razor
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 74 no. 3 2014;
— Review of Tempo 2013 selected work poetry ; Embracing the Razor 2015 selected work poetry
Awards
- 2015 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes — Margaret Scott Prize
- 2014 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Poetry
- 2014 winner Australian Centre Literary Awards — Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry