The Cost of Things
- This poem was commissioned by Simon Roth to accompany his MA Photography project
exploring themes of contemporary society, wealth, and their historical roots in empire 2025
(simonrothphotography.co.uk)
I Go Back To September 1975 (After Sharon Olds)
- Safety in Numbers (Gill Connors) 2025
Night time in the Secret Garden
- Clarion 2025
The other day my breasts left home
- Magma 2025
Sometimes
- London Grip 2024
The Ugly Lover
- The Frogmore Papers 2024
Potting Quinces
- Ink, Sweet and Tears 2024
The Scorpion and the Egg
- Ink, Sweet and Tears 2024
Bone-Breaker
- The Lighthouse 2023
Should a Man be Able to Fight His Way Out of a Cardboard Box?
- ARC 2023
Once Upon a May Day Morning
- Ink, Sweat and Tears 2023
I walk into the language of the paths
- Salzburg Poetry Review 2023
Mum in the Afterlife
- London Grip 2023
'The Yellow Medicine Cabinet'
- Raceme 2023
'Moon Girls'
- Stone Of Madness Press 2022
'I Am'
- Poetry Scotland 2022
'This Is Love'
- Bloody Beautiful 'Up The Duff' 2022
'The Boy, The Fisherman, and The Woman'
- Ink Drinkers Magazine 2022
'Californian Bone Soup'
- The Shooter Literary Magazine 2022
'When will they send the old men to war?'
- Shortlisted, Ambit 2022
'The Road'
- Ink, Sweat and Tears 2022
'The Day the Stranger Came
- Postbox Magazine, Red Squirrel Press 2022
'First Pizza'
- The Lighthouse, Gatehouse Press 2022
'Should A Man Be Able To Fight His Way Out Of A Cardboard Box?'
- Shortlisted, Bridport Poetry Prize 2021
'In My Country There Is A Forest As Big As China'
- Envoi Number 183, October 2019
'The Edge of Land'
- The Frogmore Papers Number 94, October 2019
'An Argument With The Town Clerk'
- Highly Commended, Ginkgo Ecopoetry Competition Anthology 2018
'An Argument With The Town Clerk'
- Commended. The Rialto 2017
'Mary Arden's Soliloquy'
- A Bee's Breakfast, Beautiful Dragons Press 2017
'Waiting For The Man . . .'
- Not A Drop, Beautiful Dragons Press 2016
''1882: Mister Freud Invites Mister Kirchhoff To Be Involved In An Experiment Regarding Human Reactivity
- My Dear Watson, Beautiful Dragons Press 2015
'Cepheus'
- Heavenly Bodies, Beautiful Dragons Press 2014
'Star Storm' (written for one year-old twin grandsons Ace Star and King Storm)
-Professional Association of Biographical Counsellors Newsletter, September 2016
'Cunts and Cocks and Balls'
-Hallelujah for 50ft Women. Poems about women's relationships with their bodies, Bloodaxe Books, 2015
'The Beginning and the End'
- First Prize winner, Wasafiri Competition. Vol. 28, No.1, March, 2013
'How is it Possible to Ever Say Goodbye?'
- Third Prize winner, The Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology , Aldgate Press, 2010
'Song of the Woadgatherer'
- Prize winner, Limnisa Bluethumbnail Competition, 2010
'The Devil in Me'
-To Her Naked Eye (Short Story Writing by Women), 1996
'Concerning The Kindness of Aunts'
- Cafe Royal, Panurge Publishing, 1996
'Tea at Matsy's'
- Stand Magazine, Volume 36, Number 4, 1995
'Patterns in the Snow'
-The West In Her Eye (Poems by Women), 1995
'The Bats'
-The West In Her Eye (Poems by Women), 1995
'The Distance Between Them'
- Death of a Mother: Daughter's Stories Pandora, 1994
Recipient of 1995 Oppenhiem-John Downes Memorial Award
In 1994 Sally appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour discussing her contribution to "Death
"Safe In The Arms of Jesus" a memoir, was one of five shortlisted for the Wasafiri International Contemporary Life Writing Competition, 2018
Five minute interview with Wasafiri, 2017 https://www.wasafiri.org/article/five-minute-interview-sally-st-clair/