News, Readings & Workshops
Find out where Sarah is reading next, details of upcoming workshops and the latest publications to feature her poetry.
New Arvon course - Writing the Earth
Looking forward to running a new residential writing course ‘Landscape, Walking and Eco-poetics’ at Arvon Lumb Bank, with Will Burns. Details here.
Readings and poem for Finished Creatures and the Manchester Cathedral prize
Great to have a new poem in the latest edition of the excellent Finished Creatures, issue 9 on the theme of Trespass. There is a live launch reading this Friday, details here.
I was also pleased to have a poem Highly Commended in the Manchester Cathedral prize which will be shared at a live reading in the Cathedral and published in a pamphlet, details here.
May 2026 bring peace, love and creativity to all!
New work in Arc Poetry and an interview in Pen to Print
I’m pleased to have some new inter-species work with bats and tadpoles in the Canadian journal Arc Poetry, issue 108: The New Material Ecopoetics. It was also a pleasure to be interviewed for Pen to Print magazine about eco-poetry, here.
Reading at the Winchester Poetry Prize
Reading at the prize giving ceremony and anthology launch for this year’s prize, hosted and judged by Fiona Benson. Free - book here.
New work this spring/summer in Bad Lilies, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and Poetry Ireland Review.
Pleased to have two new poems in Bad Lilies Issue 21 ‘Long-limbed Darlings’ - beautifully curated, as ever - the whole issue is just out and you can read it here
I also have work in Poetry Ireland Review 145 edited by Victoria Kennefick, and a lyric essay in Poetry Birmingham. Wonderful to be published in these two journals.
I am so delighted with my new limited edition hand-stitched book ‘Almanac’ co-created with Maria Isakova Bennett. There is an edition of 30, each unique and exquisitely hand-sewn and bound by Maria. I have three copies for sale at £10 each plus P&P and you can read more about Almanac and the other two pamphlets here
Hastings Writers' Workshop
Looking forward to running a workshop on The Ecologies of Serious Noticing for the Hastings Writers Workshop this summer. We will be writing on the beach. Join us here
Launch of my pamphlet Almanac
Come along to a wonderful 2025 launch event featuring the winners of the latest Coast to Coast to Coast Prize for Individual Poets. Reading at the Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Tickets here
Reading at the launch of Briony Hughes' Speculative Frequencies
Looking forward to celebrating the launch of Briony Hughes’ wonderful new collection exploring kinship with bats! Fellow readers include Robin Boothroyd, and Redell Olsen. At Housmans, Kings Cross, free tickets here
New courses at City Lit this summer.
Looking forward to running several courses at City Lit this summer including ‘Writing Blackout Poetry’, ‘Writing Ecopoetry’ and ‘Ways into Poetry: intensive’ - come and write with me :)
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 The Marrow
A bat poem inspired by CAConrad can be found in issue three of international poetry magazine The Marrow here. Work is also forthcoming in Bad Lilies and Poetry Birmingham. Happy spring!
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
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
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.