I'm never going to be able to sleep out here, Sarah Long

Sarah Long is an artist and writer based in Cork City. Sarah uses the aesthetics and fluidity of girlhood as a mode of criticality, probing ideas of personal and national identity. 

Invoking the language of dreams, Sarah identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these
references with personal stories and motifs. She views this rearranging and reinterpreting of histories
and visualities as an act of feminist fictioning, highlighting moments and ideas that haunt, shape
and subjugate our collective consciousness, specifically our notions of the Irish nation. Sarah
published her novella W/w in 2025. 

I’m never going to be able to sleep out here invites the reader into the confidence—and bedroom—of the autofictional character Mary. She implores you to listen and decipher her strange visions. 

Mary is a body, a woman trapped, Mother Ireland, you, me, us, Sarah, a mortal bean, a big sack of
potatoes, a shapeshifter, a girl, a curled up fiddlehead, a voice to be ignored, a voice to be listened to, a public persona, a private thought, a never ending monologue. Mary is an allegory of a painting.

Published by Bloomers

Soft cover 
112 pages
145 mm x 210 mm
ISBN 978-1-0369-7900