‘Sonically brilliant, tender, and gutsy, Sarah’s poems are born of razor-sharp social awareness.’ – Esther Ottaway, poet
TIGHT BINDINGS: Debut poetry collection 2024
With unflinching honesty and lyrical precision, Tight Bindings grapples with embodied experiences and moments of transition. Birth, death, sex, illness, desire, and motherhood are all brought into conversation with the stories we tell and the secrets we keep. The poems trace a journey of self-discovery through confession, transformation, and a suite of reclaimed fairy tales. This debut collection sings us into story, into a place of inseparable darkness and light. It is for anyone who has yearned to break free.
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“An assured debut”: Read the review of Tight Bindings at Compulsive Reader
The poems and their delivery both on the page, and on video, are quietly ferocious, delivered with warmth and gentleness that immediately draws the reader in, but underscored with a power that harkens to the title – of all the intensity held within the bindings. – Magdalena Ball
https://compulsivereader.com/2024/08/24/a-review-of-tight-bindings-by-sarah-temporal/
Book Tour 2024
Catch me in-person at any of the events below! (more dates to come)
- August 9-11 Byron Writers Festival
- August 15 Book Launch! Murwillumbah at Poets Out Loud
- August 16-18 Mudgee Writers Festival
- August 28 Ruckus Slam, Brisbane
- Sept 7 Performance with Penny productions, Port Erin, Isle of Man UK
- Oct 9 Lismore Live Poets
- Oct 18-21 Headland Writers Festival, Tathra
- Nov 12 Sappho poets, Glebe, Sydney
- Nov 13 WestSide Slam, Parramatta
- Nov 14 Poetica, Sydney
Sarah Temporal 