Sally Read

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Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk [1] ) is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse. [2]

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Early life and education

Sally Read attended Tavistock Comprehensive School. She received a BA from Open University and then an MA from the University of South Dakota. [3]

Work and awards

Read shared the Eric Gregory Award in 2001. [4] Her first collection, The Point of Splitting, was shortlisted for the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection prize. A selection of her works, Punto di Rottura, is also available in Italian. [5] Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade [6] and Forward's Poems of the Decade. [7] Read's first collection of poetry since her conversion, Dawn of this Hunger took first place for poetry at the Catholic Media Association Awards in 2022. [8] She has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Catholic Herald, The Tablet, The Humanum Review and Magnificat among other periodicals and papers. Read has also published a memoir, Night's Bright Darkness (2016) (see below) with a further memoir The Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire. [9] Read's book Annunciation was the subject of a short film [10] for EWTNGB by Norman Servais and Kevin Turley. She is editor of Word on Fire's 100 Great Catholic Poems (Nov 2023)

Religious and personal life

A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010. [11] [12] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness. [13]

Read was poet in residence from 2011-2021 at The Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs, which is an eparchial-rite form of consecrated life under the jurisdiction of Bishop Bryan Bayda, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon. [14] Fr. Gregory Hrynkiw, of the group, played a role in her conversion.

Read lives with her husband and daughter (Celia Florence, to whom her book “Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World” is dedicated) in Santa Marinella. [14]

Works

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  2. ↑ Chohan, Rhia (8 September 2009). "Poets Give Chapter and Verse on Caring". The Guardian . Archived from the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Bloodaxe Books Author Page Archived 20 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Society of Authors page on past winners of the Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards". Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  5. ↑ Birmingham City University
  6. ↑ "Identity Parade" (Bloodaxe, 2012)
  7. ↑ "Poems of the Decade" (Forward 2011)
  8. ↑ https://www.catholicmediaassociation.org/userfiles/uploads/2022_Book_Program_List-CMA_Website.pdf
  9. ↑ The Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire.
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  11. ↑ ABC.Net Emotions and Beliefs
  12. ↑ Catholic News Agency
  13. ↑ Romanowsky, Zoe (12 November 2016). "Former Atheist Psychiatric Nurse Now Calls Herself 'Eucharistic'". Aleteia. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  14. 1 2 "About Us". The Asketerion: The Journal of the Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs. 2014. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.


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