Sarah Day

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

Life
Sarah E Day was born in Lancashire, England, in 1958 and grew up in Hobart, Tasmania.

Recognition
Day's first volume of poetry, ''A Hunger to Be Less Serious (1987), won the Anne Elder Award. Her 2004 collection, ''The Ship, won the Queensland Premier's Award and the Judith Wright ACT Award (2005), and the University of Melbourne Wesley Mitchell Wright Prize.

Publications
Easter Train (2000)
 * A Hunger to Be Less Serious. North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1987.
 * Sarah Day. Pamphlet Poets; Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1990.
 * A Madder Dance. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin, 1991.
 * Quickening. Ringwood, Vic: Penguin, 1997.
 * New and Selected Poems. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2002.
 * The Ship. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl and Schlesinger, 2004.
 * Sky Writing and Other Poems. Warners Bay, NSW: Picaro Press, 2008.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Australian Poetry Library. ''