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Sarah Pearce

Sarah Pearce is a poet, editor and researcher living and working on unceded Kaurna Country (South Australia). Her work appears in Aeternum, Outskirts, Meniscus, Writing from Below, TEXT, The Suburban Review, Overland, Cordite, Rabbit and various anthologies, including Best of Australian Poems 2023 and Grieve 2025. She has held residencies at Adelaide City Library, FELTspace gallery, Gunyah (NSW) and Island View Writers’ House (SA), performed at Blenheim and Adelaide Fringe Festivals, and was the recipient of a 2024 Literary Fellowship at the State Library of South Australia. She writes about embodiment, queer experience, mental and physical health, intimacy and the environment. She is the Deputy Editor of The Suburban Review.

Botanical Gardens

plane trees wear their freckles proudly cloudy sky smell of loam i try to walk in heroic couplets cautious prophylactic rhythm prescribed by the physio my lord and saviour i remember malls as excruciating stop start constant ache inevitably screaming …

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papaver somniferum

i ask him to buy me bananas // he returns with poppy seeds cupboards spill tiny bottles // scripts flower on walls tissue-thin milkskin // bloodblooms ache in sockets i listen hard for the tick scarlet carpet // crimson maw …

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