Playing with poems is one of my life's great pleasures. I love to watch words form and flow through my bodymind in response to any experience, and then play with those words for meaning, sound and look - all contribute to the power of a poem. Poems started coming to me in high school over fifty years ago. My father, a writer himself from a family of writers, encouraged me with one piece of advice: keep it simple; simplicity is everything. That advice has served me well, both for making poems and living my life. No separation.
Poems tickle the senses with their direct briefness: an immediate distillation of this moment's essence. Sarah lives and writes in New Zealand.

Selected poem from: Across The Pacific, Poems from Aotearoa

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