Sarah Jane Barnett
Sarah is a poet, editor and creative writing teacher based in Wellington. Her poetry has been published in New Zealand, Australia and the US. Her debut collection A Man Runs into a Woman (Hue & Cry Press, 2012) was a finalist in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her second collection, WORK (Hue & Cry Press), was released in October 2015. Find her at https://sarahjanebarnett.net.
Everything By: Sarah Jane Barnett
Sarah Jane Barnett reviews Past Caring? Women Work and Emotion, a selected history of women’s care work in Aotearoa
Sarah Jane Barnett on the complexities and intricacies across the spectrum of womanhood.
Sarah Jane Barnett counts down the top ten moments in Aotearoa literature in 2017.
Sarah Jane Barnett talks to Aotearotica editor, Laura Borrowdale.
Six Books to help you feel less alone on World Mental Health Day
Here’s the quarterly Pantograph roundup of what’s happening in Aotearoa New Zealand indie publishing.
Trying to make sense of the Aotearoa poll results is giving us the crazies. There's a week to go until the general election. Here are five books to help you stay sane.
Books Editor Sarah Jane Barnett gives you her top picks for Going West 2017.
Five poetry collections to read for National Poetry Day.
Sarah Jane Barnett talks to Kirsten McDougall about her second book, the gothic love story Tess, and about sex, special powers, and what it was like to be nineteen.
In this moving essay, Sarah Jane Barnett writes about womanhood, grief, and how running allows her to feel at home in her body.
During June 2017, we're celebrating the fantastical, futuristic, and magical with excerpts, interviews, and poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand spec-fic authors. Books Editor Sarah Jane Barnett talks to Karen Healey and Rhydian Thomas.
During June 2017, we're celebrating the fantastical, futuristic, and magical with excerpts, interviews, and poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand spec-fic authors. Our first conversation is with James McNaughton and Darian Smith.
Two superhero nerds talk about why they, and everyone else, are crying during Wonder Woman.
During June 2017, we're celebrating Aotearoa New Zealand speculative fiction with excerpts, interviews, and poetry. First up: here's our roundup of five recent spec-fic publications, and two classics.
Books Editor Sarah Jane Barnett talked to Catherine Chidgey about her big win, being a working mum, and her forthcoming novel The Beat of The Pendulum.
Books Editor Sarah Jane Barnett spends two days at the Auckland Writers Festival 2017 to give you rolling coverage.
The Pantograph Picks for the Auckland Writers Festival 2017: Three ticketed events that we don't want to miss, and five free events that you shouldn't.
Sarah Jane Barnett talks to American writer and critic Chris Kraus about about her cult novel I Love Dick, voyeurism, and what it means to be an artist.
Here’s the quarterly Pantograph roundup of what’s happening in Aotearoa New Zealand indie publishing.
Books Editor Sarah Jane Barnett talks to Jane Arthur and Sarah Forster who have launched a new online magazine, The Sapling, to celebrate the excellence and diversity of children’s books in Aotearoa and abroad.
Sarah Jane Barnett talks to American writer and critic Jessa Crispin about her new book, Why I Am Not a Feminist.
Poet and essayist Ashleigh Young has been announced as a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize worth US$165,000. To celebrate, she's going to buy a new pair of bike pants.
The quarterly Pantograph roundup of what’s happening in Aotearoa New Zealand indie publishing.
Sarah Jane Barnett remembers ten moments in Aotearoa NZ Literature in 2016, and some of them make her shudder.
The American writer and critic about living as two genders, poetry, criticism and the body.
Sarah Jane Barnett sits down with author Emma Neale to talk about writing, families, the zombification of culture, and why the humanities are important for a robust society.
Sarah Jane Barnett reviews Hera Lindsay Bird, by Hera Lindsay Bird.
Sarah Jane Barnett looks at the work of two New Zealand poets separated by a hundred years, and looks at how their experiences, losses, and strengths resonate across time.
