Sarah Day

Sarah Day’s books have won awards including the Queensland Premier’s and ACT poetry prizes. Her books have also been shortlisted for the NSW, Tasmanian Premier’s, and Prime Minister’s awards. In 2017 she received the Alan Marshall short story prize. She has collaborated with musicians in the UK and Australia, and judged national poetry, fiction, and nature-writing competitions, and taught creative writing to year 12 students for twenty years. Her ninth collection, Slack Tide (Pitt Street Poetry), was published in 2022.

Photograph credit: Gordon Harrison-Williams

States of Poetry 2016 - TAS | State Editor's Introduction by Sarah Day

States of Poetry Tasmania - Series One • 22 February 2016

For its small population, Tasmania has produced, or attracted from elsewhere, a significant number of published poets, past and present. Not all have loved the place. In the case of Gwen Harwood, the island state was her prison, or at least that’s what she told her friends: ‘I HATE HOBART’, ‘When do we leave?’ and ‘Get me outa here’. ‘My only fear is that I’ll die before I get ou ... (read more)