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Sarah St Vincent Welch Sarah St Vincent Welch i(A72632 works by) (a.k.a. Sarah St. Vincent Welsh)
Born: Established: 1961 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon Chalk Borders Sarah St Vincent Welch , Markwell : Cerberus Press , 2021 23858984 2021 selected work poetry

'Sarah St Vincent Welch’s chalk borders is playful and soulful, and explores borders, frames and boundaries. chalk borders includes spare poems engaging with places from her #litchalk practice, where she chalks poems on the footpaths at art festivals in an ekphrasis of place, treating the whole environment as an artwork. These and longer poems engage with the tenuous lines drawn between art and life, the animate and inanimate, inside and outside, and present and past. chalk borders is inhabited by a love of existence and hope.' (Publication summary)

1 ‘Listen, Bitch’ : Melinda Smith and Caren Florance Shout It’s Time to Turn the Volume down on Misogynistic Language Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , September no. 29 2020;

— Review of Listen, Bitch Melinda Smith , Caren Florance , 2019 selected work poetry

'Every day, women face a barrage of insults to our humanity through the ways we are spoken to in private and through public discourse. Through borrowed words Listen, bitch cleverly shows us how this discourse is played out.' (Introduction)

1 Waiting i "in their eighth decade the sisters remember correct each other sip", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2020 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , September no. 7 2020;
1 Reclaiming Women’s Position in Film Making History : Sarah St Vincent Welch Reviews Three Films by Karen Pearlman Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 28 2020;
Review three short films: Woman with an Editing Bench (2016), After the Facts (2018), and I want to make a film about women (2019)
1 Parting Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019; (p. 92-93)
1 Confident Enquiring Engagement : Sarah St Vincent Welch Launches ‘Thinking Process’ by Anna Couani Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 26 2019;

— Review of Thinking Process Anna Couani , 2017 selected work poetry

'I am honoured to welcome Anna Couani to Canberra and her husband Hilik Miranka, both artists and huge supporters of other artists. So to her wonderful seventh book thinking process. thinking … process. What a title! It intrigues with its possibilities, is both clear and concrete and tantalising at the same time.'  (Introduction)

1 3 y separately published work icon Open Sarah St Vincent Welch , Sydney : Rochford Street Press , 2019 16561640 2019 selected work poetry

'Sarah St Vincent Welch is a Canberra based writer, editor, writing teacher, and image maker, known for her short fiction about the lives of women and girls, and for chalking her poetry on the footpaths at arts festivals. In 2016 she wrote a poem a day for Project 366, an international poem-centric online project by poets, visual artists and translators. She has worked with writers living with disability and mental illness and facilitates community creative writing projects. She has lectured and tutored at the University of Canberra. Her heart belongs to two cities, and she has worked on novels based in both Sydney and Canberra. Open is her first book.'  (Publication summary)

1 Blue Colour i "ancients called it the black dog", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2018 single work poetry
— Appears in: Not Very Quiet , September no. 3 2018;
1 Lucid i "the dreams are two days ahead", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 223 2016; (p. 52)
1 Out Today i "eyebrows and voice arced high", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 Spoon Me (After LM #129) i "crimson satin", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 Spoon Me Again (After LM #129 SSTVW #131) i "spoon glances this way", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 Any More (After KB #130) i "Time draws back, crashes", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 The Quiet (Nod to AC, RV, AB) i "noticing the quiet", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 Circle Dance i "feet lift faster", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 Places to Put Names, with Suggested Methods i "on the flat side of a stone", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , May 2016;
1 Strange Frames Iv i "no edge", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , April 2016;
1 Dahlias and Shade (Nod to MM) i "succumb to dahlias", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , April 2016;
1 Trace i "steal it", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , April 2016;
1 Rise (Nod to MLS) i "rise to oppose", Sarah St Vincent Welch , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Wonder Book of Poetry , April 2016;
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