Robyn Sarah

WORKS

POETRY

“Riveted” and “To N, In Absentia.” Writer’s Almanac. Garrison Keillor. Feb, March 2005.

A Day's Grace: Poems, 1997-2002. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2003.

Questions About the Stars. London, ON: Brick Books, 1998.

The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected. Concord, ON: Anansi, 1992.

Becoming Light: Poems. Dunvegan, ON: Cormorant Books, 1987.

Anyone Skating On That Middle Ground. Montréal: Véhicule Press, 1984.

Three Sestinas. Montréal: Villeneuve, 1984.

The Space Between Sleep and Waking. Montreal: Villeneuve, 1981.

Shadowplay. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978.

Thirty Poems. n.p.: Robyn Louder, 1974.

OTHER WORK

Promise of Shelter. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 1997.

A Nice Gazebo. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1992.

Sarah, Robyn, and Fred Louder, eds. Versus. 1976-1978.

CRITICISM

Brockwell, Stephen. “Questions About the Stars and Other Matters: An Interview with Robyn Sarah.” www.poetics.ca 3.

Cote, Marc. Rev. of Becoming Light, by Robyn Sarah. Books in Canada 16.9 (1987): 31.

Gladstone, Bill. “Artists & creativity.” Profile of Robyn Sarah. Canadian Jewish News 28.30 (1998): 20.

Heighton, Steven. “Ringing Changes: The Poet's Hand in the Short Story.” New Quarterly: New Directions in Canadian Writing 21.2/3 (2001): 190-194.

Jones, D.G. “Maintenance & Music: The Poetry of Robyn Sarah.” Canadian Literature 134 (1992): 191-198.

Jurdjevic, Deborah. Rev. of The Touchstone: Poems New & Selected, by Robyn Sarah. Canadian Woman Studies 13.3 (1993): 108-109.

Liddell, Becky. Rev. of The Touchstone: Poems New & Selected, by Robyn Sarah. Books In Canada 21.7 (1992): 53-54.

Martens, Debra. “In Concert with Robyn Sarah.” Paragraph 19.2 (1997): 15-18.

Merrett, Robert J. Rev. of Becoming Light, by Robyn Sarah. Canadian Literature 122-123 (1989): 223-226.

O' Donnell, Kathleen. “Interweaving Voices: An Interview with Robyn Sarah.” ARC 36 (1996): 23-32.

Ormsby, Eric. Rev. of Questions About the Stars, by Robyn Sarah. Books In Canada 28.2 (1999): 11-12.

Panofsky, Ruth. Rev. of Questions About the Stars, by Robyn Sarah. Quill & Quire 64.8 (1998): 31.

Rev. of Anyone Skating on that Middle Ground, by Robyn Sarah. Poetry Canada Review 7.2 (1985-86): 38-9.

Rev. of Anyone Skating on that Middle Ground, by Robyn Sarah. Canadian Materials 14.2 (1986): 89.

Sarah, Robyn and John Unrau. “Taking Poetry in Letters: Robyn Sarah and John Unrau on Free Verse vs Chopped Prose.” Books In Canada 30.4 (2001): 34-35.

Sherman, Kenneth. Rev. of Questions About the Stars, by Robyn Sarah. ARC 42 (1999): 68-74.

Sward, Robert. “A Day’s Grace: A Conversation with Robyn Sarah.” Nimrod (2005): Fall.

Tregebov, Rhea. Rev. of The Touchstone: Poems New & Selected, by Robyn Sarah. Quill & Quire 58.11 (1992): 28.

BIOGRAPHY

Robyn Sarah was born in New York City in 1949. Her parents were Canadian, and soon moved the family back to Canada, settling in Montreal, where Sarah has since lived. She studied music at the Conservatoire du Quebec, and received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from McGill University. She is known for her interest in form and experiment in poetry; her 1998 collection, Questions about the Stars, features a long poem that incorporates collage and draws on Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time.

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