Sarah Pearce Sarah Pearce i(14998709 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Papaver Somniferum i "i ask him to buy me bananas // he returns with poppy seeds", Sarah Pearce , 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 108 2023;
1 Into the Woods i "i see the easter bunny spilling out of her corset", Sarah Pearce , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , June no. 26 2022;
1 We i "reach to kiss and we miss i see", Sarah Pearce , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Suburban Review , June no. 26 2022;
1 Wednesday at Gunyah i "I'd like to count two million freckles", Sarah Pearce , 2022 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 248 2022; (p. 67) Best of Australian Poems 2023 2023; (p. 171)
1 Antipodean Advances: Australian and New Zealand Authors on the Verse Novel Sarah Pearce , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 26 no. 2 2022;
— Review of The Verse Novel : Australia and New Zealand Linda Weste , 2022 selected work interview 'This review of Linda Weste’s The Verse Novel: Australia & New Zealand forms a sequel to my review of her first selection of interviews with verse novel writers, Inside the Verse Novel: Writers on Writing (2020). Much like the earlier book, this iteration comprises an edited collection of interviews with 35 writers who have authored verse novels. Some have only written one verse novel, some are prolific poets as well as verse novelists and some are celebrated masters of the genre. Weste has conducted essentially the same interviews, with the same set of questions, providing strong continuity with the earlier volume. The questions address such aspects as the genesis of particular works, the writing process(es), any difficulties encountered along the way, and the privileging of narrative over poetic techniques and vice versa and why this was required or desired. The questions had sufficient breadth to elicit a reasonably comprehensive picture of writers’ perspectives on the form generally and on their own approach to writing.' (Introduction)
1 Exceedingly Uncomfortable and Always Amorous… Sarah Pearce , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 25 no. 2 2021;
— Review of Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys : A Verse Novel Gabrielle Everall , 2007 single work novel
1 The Contested Archipelago : Verse Novels as Liminal and Liberating Sarah Pearce , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
— Review of Inside the Verse Novel : Writers on Writing Linda Weste , 2020 selected work interview
1 For J, Who Is No Longer My Friend i "There’s a line in here about the two 60-year-old friends being ‘a couple of old", Sarah Pearce , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 25 no. 1 2021;
1 April i "the halting trip and skip of hope", Sarah Pearce , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , April no. 58 2020;
1 Where Do We Go from Here i "my grandmother is ninety-one", Sarah Pearce , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , vol. 8 no. 1 2020; (p. 151)
1 Wound and Wor(l)d : Violence and Optimism in Poetry Sarah Pearce , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 23 no. 2 2019;
— Review of After Cage Dominique Hecq , 2019 selected work poetry

Dominique Hecq’s After Cage is a moving, looping meditation on the possibilities of both language and time. Inspired by her experiences of dance and composition, particularly Stockhausen’s Stimmung, language mirrors physical and musical movement in a series of repeated yet constantly varied threads and whorls. The pages are numberless, challenging our conceptions of what a book should be and encouraging more fluid forms of reading.' (Introduction)
1 From Silence into Song Sarah Pearce , 2018 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , October vol. 22 no. 2 2018;
— Review of Walking With Camels : The Story of Bertha Strehlow Leni Shilton , 2018 selected work poetry

'Walking with Camels – The Story of Bertha Strehlow by Leni Shilton is a gorgeous, subtle rendering of the both brutal and starkly beautiful Australian desert, and those relationships that exist and are formed within this landscape. Shilton’s verse novel charts Bertha Strehlow’s transformation from a naïve and shaking girl, determined to follow the man she loves into unknown territory against the advice of loved ones, into a woman possessed, damaged and strengthened by the desert. Shilton’s rigorous research, bolstered by found poems and historical and biographical notes, grounds the poems in a moving reality, filled equally with suffering and joy.' (Introduction)
1 Istanbul i "Four fingers", Sarah Pearce , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meniscus , June vol. 5 no. 1 2017; (p. 36)
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