Tag: Sarah McCartt-Jackson

• one more from Sarah McCartt-Jackson

  In my recent microreview & interview of Stonelight (Airlie Press) by Sarah McCartt-Jackson, I noted how nature is often used as a lens in these poems to engage with human understanding and feeling. In detailing the narrative of Ora and her family, this lens feels natural, a kind of environmental intuition. Much like in poetry writing, the speakers […]

  José Angel Araguz

  January 25, 2019

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• microreview & interview: Stonelight by Sarah McCartt-Jackson

  review by José Angel Araguz In Stonelight, winner of the 2017 Airlie Prize, Sarah McCartt-Jackson adds to the tradition of lyric narrative collections that includes Margaret Atwood’s The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Rita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah, books that take on the materials of human life and through them evoke human presence. Informed by McCartt-Jackson’s background in folk […]

  José Angel Araguz

  January 21, 2019

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  Airlie Press, Airlie Prize, blog, creative writing, interview, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, poetry, review, Sarah McCartt-Jackson, Stonelight, the friday influence