News, Readings & Workshops
Find out where Sarah is reading next, details of upcoming workshops and the latest publications to feature her poetry.
New pamphlet to be created with Coast to Coast to Coast
Very pleased to have won the Coast to Coast to Coast individual poets competition which will see a new pamphlet of poems, Almanac, hand-stitched and published in Spring next year - more details here: https://www.mariaisakova.com/individualpoet-journals-competition
Reading at Cheltenham Poetry Festival - celebrating five years of their online reading series
Reading with poets including Jennifer Wong and Sarah Wimbush to celebrate five years of Cheltenham Poetry Festival’s online reading series. Tickets here
Arvon residential writing course: Spirituality, ecology and landscape.
Looking forward to running this course with Richard Skinner at Totleigh Barton in Devon, explore the spirituality of walking, connections with place and the practice of writing in-situ to deepen personal and poetic engagement with the natural world.
New work in Poetry London - on & off the page
I’m pleased to have a series of new poems published in the latest Poetry London alongside some brilliant writers. Also great to see my poems hung in the City Lit Gallery as part of an exhibition on colour - details here. Some new experimental poems working and playing with tadpoles and cress also feature in a wonderful online exhibition here, curated by Camilla Nelson.
Poetry reading and launch
Reading at the launch of Jennifer Wong’s Time Difference with Nina Mingya Powles and Jacqueline Saphra. Waterstones Kensington - tickets here: https://www.waterstones.com/events/poetry-reading-and-launch/london-kensington
Two readings for the launch of Black Iris
Celebrating the launch of Issue 2 of Black Iris - reading in-person at the Betsey Trotwood, London EC1R 3BL, at 7pm and online on Friday 28th June at 7pm - sign up here
Nottingham Poetry Festival
Online reading for the Nottingham Poetry Festival with Sarah James. Free! join us -
New work in Black Iris
Great to have a new poem, ‘Cockroach’ in Issue 2 of the excellent Black Iris
Newcastle book launch and reading
Excited to launch my new pamphlet, Pond, with The Braag, reading with Nina Murray.
Book Launch Monday 26 February, 2024 from 6pm - 8pm.
FREE ENTRY at Loftus Room, Lit and Phil, Newcastle, NE1 1SE
Drinks and nibbles. Come and join us!
Book launch reading
Reading at the launch of Arboreal by Corinna Board - free tickets here
A new pamphlet, Pond, to be published by Braag press in February 2024
“Pond by Sarah Westcott is an ecological glimpse into another world. Filled with strange and sprawling life, and how we might reach towards the more-than-human through language."
My new pamphlet, Pond, will be published by The Braag press end February.
Book Launch Monday 26 February, 2024 from 6pm - 8pm.
FREE ENTRY at Loftus Room, Lit and Phil, Newcastle, NE1 1SE
An evening of poetry - reading with Declan Ryan, Emily Hasler, James Goodman
An evening of poetry at The Horton, Epsom, Surrey. For tickets book here: https://thehortonepsom.org/events/an-evening-of-poetry/
Shortlist reading and award ceremony for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for second collections
Bloom is one of six books shortlisted for the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for second collections published in 2021 and 2022. The winner will be announced at an online reading and award ceremony on Monday 4th December at 7pm. Further details here: https://ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/ledbury-hellens-poetry-prize/
New work in berlin lit
Pleased to have two new poems published in berlin lit alongside some wonderful work. These poems are part of a sequence of twelve months of the year and the first two to find a home. Read them and the whole issue here: https://www.berlinlit.com/sarah-westcott/
Writing Eco-Poetry - an online course for City Lit
How might we write and think about poetry that reflects the precarity of the natural world? Book here: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/writing-eco-poetry
Margate Bookie - reading at the launch of 14 magazine
Reading at the launch of 14 magazine at the Turner Contemporary, Margate. Tickets here: Margate Bookie 2023
Nevada Street Poets - a reading at West Greenwich library for Inwords
A poetry reading at West Greenwich library for Inwords, with Lorraine Mariner, Richard Meier and more
Reading at Sunrose Arts Festival
Guest reader at Sunrose Arts Festival, Canterbury, with Jennifer Wong, Jessica Mookherjee and more.
New work in The Rialto
Delighted to have new work in The Rialto Issue 100 edited by Will Harris and Ella Frears.
Poetry Reading
Pavilion poets - a reading with Jodie Hollander and Emily Hasler, Chener Books, Lordship Lane, London, 7pm.
Poetry Workshop
I am teaching a new course for City Lit this spring - an intensive poetry workshop for feedback on work in progress.
Book Launch
Launch of Living with other People, a new anthology from Corrupted Poetry, Chener Books, Lordship Lane, London, 7pm.