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'The first time I read Freya's work I thought . . . uh oh. And then I thought, you have got to be kidding me. And then I thought, God fucking dammit. And then I walked around the house shaking my head thinking . . . OK - alright. And then - finally - I thought, well well well - like a smug policeman. Listen - she's just the best. I'm going to say this so seriously. She is, unfortunately, the absolute best. Trying to write a clever blurb for her feels like an insult to how right and true and deadly this collection is. God, she's just so good. She's the best. She kills me always, every time, and forever.'
—Hera Lindsay Bird
‘The cracking lines, the glints, the lightning, the darknesses, the dread, the anger. This is poetry that tears, that is torn apart, that is so utterly alive it hurts.’
—Paula Green, NZ Poetry Shelf
‘The value we place on ourselves can make the difference between wanting to stay in the world and wanting to leave it. Sadgrove knows that this is the real fight, and she wants us to feel, viscerally, its body blows. … This first poetry collection is both raw and polished, contemporary and enduring.’
—Catherine Robertson, The Listener
Freya is unrelenting, and her poems are just as powerful between the covers as they are read aloud.’
—Ollie Kavanagh Penno, Regional News
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POEMS
The Epic Highs and Lows of High School Football
(with Rebecca Shaw)
– Red Room Poetry
Horse Polo Tongue Swallow
– Cordite
Tantrum in a Supermarket
– Cordite
Turducken
– The Spinoff
Dystopian Novel with Me as the Central Character
illustrated by Marc Pearson
– Going Down Swinging
Georgie Porgie
– Capital Magazine
Bad Sex in Big Suburbs
– Minarets
STIHL Power Equipment
– The Spinoff
Big Death Love
– LEFT/Pantograph Punch
If I Had Your Baby In My Uterus I Would Probably Kill It With Abortion
– Sweet Mammalian
Big; Pukeko; Poem About Both of Us
– Kapōhau
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– The Spinoff
ARTICLES AND STORIES
Loose Canons
– The Pantograph Punch
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– Meanjin
Leaving Home
– WOMAN Magazine
Bring it All Back
– Emerging Writers Festival
The Art of the Self-roast
– The Pantograph Punch
Re-Verse: The Flexitarian by Rebecca Hawkes
– Capital Magazine
Re-Verse: Excerpt from Autobiography of a Marguerite
– Capital Magazine
INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES
Go bigger and push harder
– Interview with Claire Mabey for The Spinoff
Extremely Cool Party Diva
– Profile by Hera Lindsay Bird for The Pantograph Punch
That Kind of Trust
– Interview with Eamonn Marra for Starling
PRINT ANTHOLOGIES
1 poem
– Rapture
1 story
– Annual 3
1 poem
– A Game of Two Halves
2 poems
– Skinny Dip
1 poem
– Sport 47
Poetry Chapbook
– Strays by Foundlings Press
3 poems
– Sport 46