To celebrate yet another year of publishing and awarding poetry through the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, we would like you to meet poet Sarah Day.
Sarah Day is one of the three judges for the 2014 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize.
She was born in England and grew up in Tasmania. Tempo (Puncher & Wattman, 2013) is her seventh collection of poems. Awards for her books include the Judith Wright Calanthe Queensland Premier’s, the Judith Wright ACT, the University of Melbourne Wesley Michelle Wright Prize and the Anne Elder Award. In 2002, her New and Selected Poems was published by Arc in the UK. It was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Awards and received a UK Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She has been resident at the BR Whiting Library in Rome, has read at writers’ festivals around Australia and been a guest at the Festival de Poesie in Paris in 2001 and 2006, at King’s Lynn in England 2002 and University of Lisbon 2011.
Her poems have been set to music by British composer Anthony Gilbert. She was poetry editor of Island Magazine for seven years, teaches English and Creative Writing and has been a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Hobart.
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