Menu

Poetry

Sarah Lin Wilson

Poetry

Primary menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About and contact
  • Sample Page

Review: Because a Woman’s Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean

Posted on March 21, 2019 by writehanded — Leave a reply

I wrote about Sugar Magnolia Wilson’s new collection for Booksellers New Zealand. It is an arresting treatise on gender, nature, love, and the unknowable depths of women. 

Posted in Reviews | Leave a reply

Are Friends Electric? – Review

Posted on June 5, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

I know, I know: don’t judge a book by its cover. But when they’re as hauntingly beautiful as this one, it’d be remiss of me not to acknowledge it. It Continue Reading →

Posted in Reviews | Leave a reply

Failed Love Poems – Review

Posted on May 29, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

I remember wanting a copy of this book when it came out in 2015 and, being impoverished, I made a hopeful instruction to my future self. To Buy, it said. I Need Continue Reading →

Posted in Reviews | Leave a reply

Gestalt

Posted on May 17, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

For CJ   We are more than the sum of our parts I found out there’s a word for that                  Gestalt Which Continue Reading →

Posted in My poetry | Leave a reply

Brain Cloud

Posted on May 17, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

For Ginny   Some days you wake up underwater all your plans drenched the mirror stays foggy long after the shower is turned off   Last week I watched a Continue Reading →

Posted in My poetry | Leave a reply

Wherever you go / There you are

Posted on May 17, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

For Kevin   Liminal spaces are those in between like stairwells, and ladders   and strange, uninhabited lands glimpsed from train windows   There’s really no secret to going forward Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a reply

Luminescence

Posted on May 17, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

For Steph Sometimes you find people even though you weren’t looking for them and you thought you’d lost them long ago When you put two and two together and come Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a reply

Morewine Cottage

Posted on May 17, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

For Kris   Whenever I can’t sleep I think about my nights at Morewine smoking illicit cigarettes out of the upstairs window   The day we hosted Fun Palace the Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a reply

Poetry review – Floods Another Chamber

Posted on May 7, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

My latest review for Booksellers New Zealand – James Brown’s Floods Another Chamber. It was a book I enjoyed technically if not emotionally. 

Posted in Reviews | Leave a reply

Six months later

Posted on April 17, 2018 by writehanded — Leave a reply

You asked me what I was doing now What something I was using to fill the hours “Just… writing,” I said, looking down and away You are unsurprised “The writer Continue Reading →

Posted in My poetry | Leave a reply

Post navigation

← Older posts

If you like and value what I do, please consider becoming a patron!





Recent Posts

  • Review: Because a Woman’s Heart is Like a Needle at the Bottom of the Ocean
  • Are Friends Electric? – Review
  • Failed Love Poems – Review
  • Gestalt
  • Brain Cloud

People and places

  • Ashleigh Young
  • Brenna Twohy
  • Clemetine von Radics
  • Hera Lindsay Bird
  • Hinemoana Baker
  • JAAM
  • NZ EPC
  • NZ Poet Laureate
  • NZ Poetry Night
  • Sarah Lin Wilson
Copyright © 2025 Poetry All Rights Reserved.
Theme: Catch Flames by Catch Themes
  • Home
  • About and contact
  • Sample Page