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Sarah Day (born 1958) is an English-born Australian poet and teacher. [1] [2] [3] She was also the poetry editor of Island Magazine for several years.

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Biography

Sarah E Day was born in Lancashire, England, in 1958 and grew up in Hobart, Tasmania. [4] [5] After obtaining a degree from University of Melbourne, she then taught English at Devonport and Hobart school. Along with the subject she and taught Creative Writing at a college level. She was also one of the head members of the Literature Fund of the Australian Council, along with becoming the poetry editor at Island Magazine for many years. Day had started her poem publishing journey in the early 1980s, her pieces are featured in the Westerly, Quadrant and Island Magazine routinely. Since her first novel, she has six other collections, along with a volume of New and Selected Poems. [6]

In 2002, Days' New and Selected Poems was published by Arc in the UK, being the same place where it received Special Commendation by the Poetry Book Society. She was a recipient of grants from the Literature Fund of Australia Council and Arts Tasmania. She was welcomed to the Festival de Poesie in Paris both in 2001 and 2004. She also was invited and appeared at Australian festivals like Adelaide, Melbourne and Mildura, etc. [2] Her first novel A Hunger to Be Less Serious was written into four sectors which included poems Voices from Titree, Fountain Blue, Anemones and Hawk. [7]

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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 Michel Wright Prize (2004)). [11] [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Sarah Day
  2. 1 2 "Sarah Day - Sarah Day Biography". Poem Hunter. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  3. ↑ "Australian Poetry Library". www.poetrylibrary.edu.au. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Poetica – 11 May 2002 – Sarah Day – Undermining the Poetry of Sarah Day
  5. ↑ Sarah Day
  6. ↑ "Australian Poetry Library". www.poetrylibrary.edu.au.
  7. ↑ Duwell, Martin (May 2010). "Sarah Day: Grass Notes | Australian Poetry Review" . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  8. 1 2 Kinsella, John (1999). Landbridge: Contemporary Australian Poetry. Lancashire: Arc Publications. p. 327. ISBN   1-900072-40-8.
  9. ↑ Famous Reporter # 22, poetry: Sarah Day, 'Easter Train'
  10. ↑ "Arc Publications Catalogue" . Retrieved 3 April 2012.
  11. ↑ Famous Reporter # 30, Peter Boyle's review of 'The Ship' (Sarah Day)
  12. ↑ Day, Sarah (2004), The ship, Brandl & Schlesinger, ISBN   978-1-876040-59-8
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