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Sara Baume

Sara Baume is the author of three novels, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, A Line Made by Walking and Seven Steeples, and one book of non-fiction, Handiwork. She lives and works on the south coast Ireland.

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Art & Photography | The Online Edition
Art & Photography | The Online Edition

It Is Decidedly So

Sara Baume

‘There is always a cat sitting on the kitchen windowsill, in the background of every ordinary and extraordinary event, a softly focused silhouette, a pair of piercing eyes.’

Sara Baume responds to twenty-nine photographs from Magnum Photos.

Fiction | Issue 163 padlock
Fiction | Issue 163 padlock

The Hair Baby

Sara Baume

‘She has been ten for a month and she does not like it. She carries the weight of her extra digit like a chain-mail vest.’

Fiction by Sara Baume.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 161
Essays & Memoir | Issue 161

Ray & Her Sisters

Sara Baume

‘Ray is the only sister to win a scholarship to boarding school.’

Sara Baume tells the story of her grandmother’s life.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 161
Essays & Memoir | Issue 161

The Infinite Goldfish

Sara Baume

In the beginning, there was the goldfish.

Fiction | Issue 135 padlock
Fiction | Issue 135 padlock

Green, Mud, Gold

Sara Baume

‘She shuts her eyes and pictures ears growing out through her ears, her spine turning to wood, pictures herself as a girl-woman scarecrow, arms opened wide, and nailed to two posts in the centre of a great green, mud and gold expanse, crucified.’

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