Sarah O'Connor

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Writer, Poet, Theatre goer, Music lover, Irishwoman abroad she/her http://linktr.ee/SarahOCwrites

A flyer for Line Breaks on Loose FM. 6pm, Tuesday 28th July. Poets talking poetry Live on Loose.fm At the bottom of the screen is the email address linebreaks.loosefm@gmail.com The background photo is a stone rhino statue nestled among greenery. In the foreground a sign reads Please do not climb on the rhinoceros.
A flyer for Line Breaks on Loose FM. 6pm, Tuesday 28th July. Poets talking poetry Live on Loose.fm At the bottom of the screen is the email address linebreaks.loosefm@gmail.com The background photo is a stone rhino statue nestled among greenery. In the foreground a sign reads Please do not climb on the rhinoceros.
A man & 3 women stand in front of a deep blue wall beneath an exit sign. They are holding manuscripts & smiling in a pink glow.
In one corner is a photo of a book cover. Someone has ripped up a post it note with scribbled text on & attached it either side of the title to form the sentence "How dare you be" "thinking and writing about poetry" "when a goose is capable of bringing down a commercial airliner". Beside this is the info for Line//Breaks, 8pm Weds 24th June. Poets talking poetry love on Loose.fm The email address linebreaks.loosefm@gmail.com sits at the bottom under the loose fm logo of a pair of cartoon eyes
An almost neon bright, lime green book cover. Snaking across the cover is a black & white illustration of a scaly, hairy, monster worm. The title Folkish runs down the side of the snake. It's by Kym Deyn via Nine Arches Press.
3 poets stand outside the LooseFM station with it's giant cartoon eyes perched on top of a green shipping container. The text read Line//Breaks 8pm//Tuesday 12.05.26 Poets talking poetry live on Loose.fm Linebreaks.loosefm@gmail.com This sits against a collage poem background from which the phrases Spellbound, the heart contracts & have dissolved completely are readable
A pile of books including The Little Review No.3, Vehicle by Jen Calleja, Selected poems Pat Parker, Folkish be Kym Deyn, Filly by Rosamund Taylor, Midnight Masses by Siofra McSherry, High Jump as Icarus Story by Gustav Parker Hibbett, Contraflow by Fay Musselwhite, Glitchwork by Mantra Mukim & Magma no.94
The image is a collage poem sitting on a background of pink & purple. It incorporates a broken up Barbie doll, the phrases "Broken armies", "Judy also thinks back" and "the herring gulls throng". On top of this sits the Loose FM logo of a large pair of cartoon eyes and in orange boxes the text : Line // Breaks 8pm // Tuesday 24th March 2026. Poets talking poetry live on Loose.fm
The image is a collage poem sitting on a background of pink & purple. It incorporates a broken up Barbie doll, the phrases "Broken armies", "Judy also thinks back" and "the herring gulls throng". On top of this sits the Loose FM logo of a large pair of cartoon eyes and in orange boxes the text : Line // Breaks 8pm // Tuesday 24th March 2026. Poets talking poetry live on Loose.fm
A stack of poetry book spines sit against a grey background. From top down : An Arbitrary Light Bulb Ian Duhig, Chaotic Good Isabelle Baafi, Aunty Uncle Poems Gboyega Odubanjo, Shoulder Tap Maurice Riordan, Cane Corn & Gully Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Stone Girl Mary Noonan, The Terrible Daniel Sluman, Panic Response John McCullough, The Butterfly House Kathryn Bevis, On Balance Sinéad Morrissey, Almost with Tenderness Maya Caspari, The Map of the World Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, When the flies come Fahad Al-Amoudi, The Coin Caleb Parkin, Selected Poems T.S.Eliot, Brother Poem Will Harris, The Spirit Level Seamus Heaney, And I Will make of you a vowel sound Morag Anderson, Mes forêts Hélène Dorion, fil/Uh Gemma Jackson, To read and dream Christina Rossetti, En l'absence du capitaine Cécile Coulon
The cover of An Arbitrary Light Bulb by Ian Duhig
On Balance by Sinead Morrissey from Carcanet Press. The cover shows a range of prizes - Poetry Book Society choice, Costa shortlist & Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize
Cane Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa. The black cover has swirled sections of purple labanotation
The blue & red cover of En l'absence du capitaine by Cécile Coulon from Le Castor Astral
The cover of fil/Uh by Gemma Jackson has a black abstract line drawing on a white cover
The cover of The Coin by Caleb Parkin from Broken Sleep Books
The 2024 Ayamati Pamphlet winner - And I will make of you a vowel sound by Morag Anderson. The cover is a deep inky blue with an image of a young woman in a short white dress sinking under water, head thrown back over her shoulder
The Butterfly House by Kathryn Bevis. A pale woman looks sadly towards the butterfly landing on her outstretched finger as her hair melts into a kaleidoscopic image of more butterflies, a house and human organs
The bright blue & red book cover of The Terrible by Daniel Sluman from nine arches press.
The cover of The North poetry journal issue 71. A bride and groom approach each other on tightrope
The book cover of the Penguin Archive version of To read and Dream by Christina Rossetti. It is a white cover with a gorgeous read hand written title & red line drawing. Detracted from slighted by a big smudge of tomato leaf residue I have managed to thumbprint onto it.
The deep blue book cover of Panic Response by John McCullough is held against a sunny garden backdrop of green and pink
The book The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is held against a garden backdrop with greenery dotted with pink & yellow flowers
A hand holds the yellow book cover of Almost, With Tenderness by Maya Caspari from Outspoken Press. It is literally a well-thumbed book with a smudged black finger print on the front
The cover of Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo, a winner of the New Poets Prize
The cover of When the flies come by Fahad Al-Amoudi from ignition press
A hand holds the book The Spirit Level by Seamus Heaney
A hand holds the book Stone Girl by Mary Noonan. The image on the front is The painter with a Camellia Branch by the artist Paula Modersohn-Becker
A hand holds the book Brother Poem by Will Harris. The cover is black with Brother Poem in thin green text touching a mirror image below it in pink
A hand holds the red book cover of Mes forêts by Hélène Dorion against a background of green grass. In the distance some trees sit against a lightly clouded blue sky above the Welsh Valleys
The purple book cover of Shoulder Tap by Maurice Riordan is held by my hand against a wooden background
Sitting on a patio, I hold out the Selected Poems of T.S.Eliot in front of me, against a background of lush green garden.
The book Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi sits against a worn wooden tabletop
Against the background of a concrete platform, a hand holds the programme for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 showing the photos of the 10 shortlisted poets. At the bottom is the Eliot quote "For the pattern is new in every moment/ And every moment is a new and shocking/ Valuation of all we have been"
The Moon Shines Down the moon shines down on new york city while i smile over at you the moon is still against the night and i am still against you surely you must sometimes wonder won't i ever go home surely you must sometimes say poet please leave me alone but my bad rhyme and love of night retain me here with you and though it's so sad to admit without you what would i do of course you are no panacea for my lack of friends but if i were a hallmark card here's where we'd begin the moon shines down on new york city while i smile over at you
The cover of a book Some of us just fall : on nature and not getting better by Polly Atkin. Purple and yellow dried flowers sit against a textured cream backdrop.
4 pamphlets sit on a wooden table. Little machines by Laura Wetherington is a lemon cream background with a geometric multicoloured city plan in a central square. fil/Uh by Gemma Jackson is a pale lavender with an abstract black line drawing on the front. girlhoof by Flo Reynolds is a pale mustard book, a central green background has an oblong marbled image in pinks oranges & black. Notes on different places by Kayleigh Campbell is a rich blue cover with geometric shapes in yellow, orange and navy.
A hand holds the book Near Future by Suzannah Evans. A small grey woman stands on a gray surface at the bottom of the cover she looks up and a a black & purple shard of a space nebula shoots from her face across the book. The back ground of the picture is an autumnal park with leaves strewn across the green and bare branches behind
A hand knit baby cardigan & hat sit against a grey sofa. The hat is a multicolour grey/yellow/orange/blue mix with a big pale yellow Pom Pom on top. The cardigan is majority yellow with the multicolour bands and collar. A mix of cable, twist & honeycomb stitches snake up the front to raglan sleeves in a moss stitch
A copy of Portrait in Mustard by Wendy Allen - the purple & mustard shifting shapes of women on the cover sit against the background of a train seat