Sarah (Sleam) Leamy

Hidden Sarah (Sleam) Leamy

"Memory lives on the cusp between life and dream, seeing and saying, falling to pieces and finding form. Sleam's Hidden is a brilliant constellation of fragments, flashes, and waves that collect emotion, memory, desire, love, animals, land, and identities. This work is nothing short of breathtaking to me. Defiant in form, tender of heart, I took it into my body without hesitation. A heart triumph."

-Lidia Yuknavitch, (Verge, Misfit Manifesto, Chronology of Water)




"Humorous, sensual, and vulnerable. Sleam's narrative poems whisper the intricacies of relationship, appealing to the voyeur in all of us."

-Jasminum McMullen, (By the Hour)




"Tess Gallagher once said that 'The best love poems confirm something we secretly felt but never said'. I think this is true about Sarah Leamy's Hidden though the poems in this collection go even further: not just confirming something we never said but giving that secret thing a language that can hold it. In this beautifully narrative collection we are blessed by a poet whose central power is love. What a gift. Especially in a world that seems less and less interested in something so radically powerful. Hidden should not be hidden at all. It should be shared with everyone."

-Matthew Dickman (Wonderland, 2018)