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Poet & Educator @motifpoetry | Performer | Parent | Feminist | She/Her, They/Them 🎤✍️👶🇳🇿🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Wellington City, New Zealand
Joined October 2010
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My new essay on birthdays, parenting and 💩💩💩in swimming pool changing rooms just dropped! Give it a read @ sarahirsch.substack.com
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I have been writing this piece in my mind for 2 years. I would love you to read it sarahirsch.substack.com/p/st…
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Sunday in Kaiwharawhara My newest piece of writing is up. Give it a read, subscribe if you feel like it, pay if you can! open.substack.com/pub/sarahi…
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“So here I am, just a writer, standing in front of a reader, asking you to keep me accountable.” That’s right, dear reader. I started a substack. Substack said to try and write a thread about it. I don’t really speak twitter but here goes (1/?)
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So I decided to start something. I will be writing about parenting and periods. Also about other stuff but those are the headlines. After a decade and a half of struggling with endometriosis I am endometri-over it. (3/?)
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So that pun was an example of the kind of base like we will be working with over here. Essentially this is me re lighting the birthday cake candle of my writing career and desperately asking you to help me not blow it out. (4/?)
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To subscribe give this a read and click the button at the bottom: open.substack.com/pub/sarahi… Or message me your email and I can sign you up. Thank you for bearing with me while I work out how to thread (6/6)
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So, if you would like to support my writing, please consider subscribing. Either for the occasional free content or, if you can, become a paid member. It’s win/win. You get writing delivered direct to your inbox to satisfy your dirty habit and I get held accountable (5/?)
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Hey @metlinkwgtn I left a bag of lemons on the number 1 bus just now. Any chance I can get it back?
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Anyone else read this like LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE? #foundpoetry
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Our next performer for #BeyondthePage2022 is London-grown slam poet Sara Hirsch! We're so excited to be hosting an amazing poetry workshop for kids with Sara at Newtown Library on 15 July -- find out more and register here: bit.ly/3bOsfAa @Sarsbars89
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Do I know anyone who lives in Germany? Want to try and ship something to nz 🤞
I was today years old when I learnt that it is OranguTAN not OranguTANG. I learnt this from my 8 month old’s baby book.
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Hey @nosuchthing this is a real sign at a dog park in New Zealand and apparently it’s in memory of a real guy. I thought it was a joke but my friend sent me a photo of his grave. Big fan of dogs I believe. Can’t make it up…
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'I am going on a bear hunt and making the ABSOLUTE MOST OF IT making a meal of it' It's bear hunt time! We're so lucky to have a new poem from new mother @Sarsbars89, their first since welcoming baby James into the world. stasisjournal.com/home/bear-…
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When I get married I will take my partner’s surname. And also his first name
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How serious was @nosuchthing about including a poem for each chapter in their upcoming book? Because that is a collab I would be VERY open to…. 😀
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Sara Hirsch retweeted
a pigeon at pride
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The wonderful @alaynekat bought this for my baby but I am very jealous that he will get to wear it. Do I know anyone who I could comission to make me an adult version? Legit serious 😀 instagram.com/p/CPUEI3SrDtq/…