Sarah Temporal

Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet, educator and arts producer living on Bundjalung lands in the NSW Northern Rivers. Her writing is concerned with revealing our hidden selves, and ranges from personal confessions to reclaimed fairy tales. Her work appears in Best of Australian Poems, Heroines Anthology, Australian Poetry Anthology and more, and was shortlisted for the Val Vallis Award and Arts Queensland XYZ Prize for Excellence in Spoken Word.

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With a background in education, she has taught poetry to hundreds of people from ages 5 to 95, and now runs a regional arts initiative (Poets Out Loud) to empower voices of all ages. Arriving after twenty years of performing live, Tight Bindings is her first published collection.

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Image credit: Jay Penfold