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Sarah Day Sarah Day i(A2175 works by)
Born: Established: 1958 Upholland, Lancashire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1964
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1 Glover in Paradise Sarah Day , sequence poetry
Paeans Sarah Day , sequence poetry
1 Aldinga Cliffs i "There’s no getting away from things.", Sarah Day , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 437 2021; (p. 44)
1 Falling i "Today the world draws itself in", Sarah Day , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 79 no. 4 2020;
1 To Hassan i "And to the other men from Afghanistan,", Sarah Day , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 426 2020; (p. 46)
1 Voyager I i "The digits on the NASA site", Sarah Day , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 159 2020; (p. 52-53)
1 Prince of Wales Bay i "Ali and his bride who prefers not to be named are out", Sarah Day , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 June 2020; (p. 18)
1 Nation i "The boy on the platform", Sarah Day , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Journal , vol. 9 no. 1 2019; (p. 39)
1 Mother-in-Law i "On your brave, calm journey", Sarah Day , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 78 no. 1 2019; (p. 89)

Epigraph: Not people die but worlds die in them —Yevtushenko

1 Launch : Anne Kellas' Poetry Collection The Netted Air Sarah Day , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , June no. 9 2018;
1 Dunes i "The suburban bus route", Sarah Day , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 231 2018; (p. 32)
1 Ivy i "Something is taking over the bush", Sarah Day , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 77 no. 2 2018; (p. 80-81)
1 3 y separately published work icon Towards Light and Other Poems Sarah Day , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2018 14091208 2018 selected work poetry

'Light, as a physical and metaphorical entity recurs in many of the poems in this new collection by Sarah Day. Light makes its presence felt in these poems as a source of illumination and grace, it is also the means by which the flaws and discrepancies of the present and past are highlighted.' (Publication summary)

1 In the Dark Sarah Day , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Literary Nillumbik Anthology of Writing 2017 2017; (p. 6-11)
1 Fog i "Picture a deep lake,", Sarah Day , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 31 no. 2 2017; (p. 308-309)
1 State Editor's Introduction Sarah Day , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: States of Poetry - Tasmania 2017;

'A. E. Houseman memorably said: I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. It’s not an easy matter to justify one’s decisions when faced with numerous poems from which to make a limited selection. There’s no programmatic guide to what makes a poem successful although the impact of a good poem is something we all know and recognise. Generally it has something to do with registering a sense of shock – it might be the shock of the new, unexpected or strange, or it might be the shock of the familiar – it can take one off guard to be confronted by what one knows but didn’t know one knew. And what creates the shock? This is different with every poem. It may be linguistic – the relationship between the words or the acoustics of words and lines; it may be the imagery or information or impressions communicated; it may be the tensions and dynamics set up between all or some of these elements that results in a poetic imperative. The ineffable subtleties at work in a poem are endlessly unpredictable; it’s that unpredictability that makes poetry so compelling. You never know in what way a poem is going to reach you.' (Introduction)

1 1 y separately published work icon States of Poetry - Tasmania Sarah Day (editor), Southbank : ABR Publications , 2017 14033985 2017 anthology poetry

'Series Two of the Tasmanian States of Poetry anthology is edited by Sarah Day and features poems by Christiane Conésa-Bostock, James Charlton, Jim Everett-pularia meenamatta, Anne Kellas, Gina Mercer, and Ben Walter.' (Introduction)

1 Toward Light i "I whisper something to you", Sarah Day , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 150 2017; (p. 46-47)
1 A Significant Backwater Sarah Day , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 1 2017; (p. 137-145)

'My parents immigrated to Australia in 1964 when I was six years old. Within a year of arriving, they had bought land up river from Hobart and across the river from what is now Mona. The area was referred to then as Old beach Road. It always seemed odd that the district itself was nameless but for the kilometres of road that wound through it. The locality was flanked by the sublime parabolic foothills of Mt Direction and the shores of the Derwent River at its broadest sweep.' (Introduction)

1 Europe, June 2016 i "The flight path on the screen", Sarah Day , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Griffith Review , August no. 57 2017; (p. 212-214)
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