Sally Read
{{Short description|British poet and writer}}
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Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk[http://citydesert.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/what-is-a-hermit/ Interview in City Desert]) is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse.{{r|Chohan (2009)}}
Early life and education
Sally Read attended Tavistock Comprehensive School. She received a BA from Open University and then an MA from the University of South Dakota.[http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Sally+Read Bloodaxe Books Author Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020035952/http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Sally+Read |date=20 October 2014 }}
Work and awards
Read shared the Eric Gregory Award in 2001.{{Cite web |url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners |title=Society of Authors page on past winners of the Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards |access-date=26 August 2013 |archive-date=27 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327205725/http://societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners |url-status=dead }} Her first collection, The Point of Splitting, was shortlisted for the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection prize. A selection of her works, Punto di Rottura, is also available in Italian.[http://www.bcu.ac.uk/english/institute-of-creative-and-critical-writing/fellows-to-the-institute-of-creative-and-critical-writing/sally-read Birmingham City University]
Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade [https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/identity-parade-934 "Identity Parade" (Bloodaxe, 2012)] and Forward's Poems of the Decade.[https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Decade-Anthology-Forward-2002-2011/dp/0571281737 "Poems of the Decade" (Forward 2011)] Read's first collection of poetry since her conversion, Dawn of this Hunger took first place for poetry at the Catholic Media Association Awards in 2022. https://www.catholicmediaassociation.org/userfiles/uploads/2022_Book_Program_List-CMA_Website.pdf
She has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Catholic Herald, The Tablet, The Humanum Review and Magnificat among other periodicals and papers. Read has also published a memoir, Night's Bright Darkness (2016) (see below) with a further memoir The Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire. [http://www.sallyread.netThe Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire.] Read's book Annunciation was the subject of a short film {{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FER_itlR1f8&t=47s | title=Annunciation, a Call to Faith in a Broken World | website=YouTube | date=5 February 2022 }} for EWTNGB by Norman Servais and Kevin Turley. She is editor of Word on Fire's 100 Great Catholic Poems (Nov 2023)
Religious and personal life
A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010.[http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/emotions-and-beliefs/3781280 ABC.Net Emotions and Beliefs][https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/25370/former-atheist-poet-reveals-details-of-her-catholic-conversion Catholic News Agency] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness.{{r|Romanowsky (2016)}}
Read was poet in residence from 2011-2021 at The Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs, which is an eparchial-rite form of consecrated life under the jurisdiction of Bishop Bryan Bayda, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon.{{r|Asketerion (2014)}} Fr. Gregory Hrynkiw, of the group, played a role in her conversion.
Read lives with her husband and daughter (Celia Florence, to whom her book “Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World” is dedicated) in Santa Marinella.{{r|Asketerion (2014)}}
Works
- The Point of Splitting (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
- Broken Sleep (Bloodaxe Books, 2009)
- The Day Hospital (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)
- Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story (Ignatius Press, 2016) (Translated into Polish, Slovenian, Slovakian and Czech)
- Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World (Ignatius Press, 2019)
- Dawn of this Hunger (Angelico Press, Second Spring, 2021)
- 100 Great Catholic Poems (Word on Fire, November 2023), edited and commentary by Read
- The Mary Pages (forthcoming from Word on Fire)
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.sallyread.net}}
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