It’s LAUNCH TIME! Join me to celebrate the release of my debut poetry collection, Tight Bindings.

Having hosted Poets Out Loud for 5 years, I am delighted to share the first copies of  my new book with this special community of word-lovers.

Pre-order here!

It wouldn’t be Poets Out Loud without an open section – so bring your words along for a special edition slam! I invite 2-min poems on the theme of BINDING / BREAKING FREE. Get in from 7pm to sign up.

Attendance at the launch is free, no bookings required. But do please pre-order your books, as I’d like to write you a nice thoughtful message when signing.

See you at the launch!

– Sarah 🙂

Praise for Tight Bindings:

Sonically brilliant, tender, and gutsy, Sarah’s poems are born of razor-sharp social awareness. – Esther Ottaway, poet

Temporal’s poems rewrite the fairy tales with a deft sleight of hand. Under it all, rocklike, she conjures vibrant journeys, the magic potion of memory, bodies in love and the inexplicable impetus to carry on. – Kerri Shying, poet

Sarah Temporal’s book launch:

 M|Arts, Murwillumbah

Thursday 15 August 2024

7pm for 7:30 until 9:30pm

FREE. 

About the book:

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.

Tight Bindings is published by puncherandwattmann.

Sarah Temporal

About the author:

Sarah Temporal is a prize-winning poet living on Bundjalung lands in the NSW Northern Rivers. She has always been fascinated by the power of poetry to reveal our hidden selves. Sarah runs Poets Out Loud as a regional arts initiative to empower voices of all ages. With a background in education, she has taught poetry to hundreds of people from ages 8 to 89. Arriving after twenty years of performing live, Tight Bindings is her first published collection.

 

Poets Out Loud 2024 dates: 

March 21 @M|Arts

May 11 Super Slam with Murwillumbah Arts Trail

June 20 @M|Arts

August 8-11 Youth Slam with Byron Writers Festival

August 15 @M|Arts: Sarah Temporal Book Launch

October 17 @M|Arts

December 19 @M|Arts