Sally Read Explained

Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk[1]) is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse.

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.[2]

Work and awards

Read shared the Eric Gregory Award in 2001.[3] 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.[4] Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade [5] and Forward's Poems of the Decade.[6] 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. [7] 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.[8] Read's book Annunciation was the subject of a short film [9] 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.[10] [11] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness.

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. 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.

Works

Notes and References

  1. http://citydesert.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/what-is-a-hermit/ Interview in City Desert
  2. http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Sally+Read Bloodaxe Books Author Page
  3. Web site: Society of Authors page on past winners of the Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards . 26 August 2013 . 27 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140327205725/http://societyofauthors.org/eric-gregory-past-winners . dead .
  4. 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
  5. https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/identity-parade-934 "Identity Parade" (Bloodaxe, 2012)
  6. https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Decade-Anthology-Forward-2002-2011/dp/0571281737 "Poems of the Decade" (Forward 2011)
  7. https://www.catholicmediaassociation.org/userfiles/uploads/2022_Book_Program_List-CMA_Website.pdf
  8. http://www.sallyread.net''The Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire.
  9. Web site: Annunciation, a Call to Faith in a Broken World . . 5 February 2022 .
  10. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/spiritofthings/emotions-and-beliefs/3781280 ABC.Net Emotions and Beliefs
  11. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/25370/former-atheist-poet-reveals-details-of-her-catholic-conversion Catholic News Agency

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