Scarlett Sabet

Photography by Bradley Quinn

Biography

Scarlett Sabet is a poet and writer, hailed by The Telegraph as “a rising star in the world of poetry.” She has performed at Hay Festival, Byline Festival, and Cheltenham Literary Festival in the U.K. Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. City Lights in San Francisco, the Kerouac Centenary Festival, Wellesley College in Massachusetts, KGB Bar, Bowery Poetry and Berl’s Poetry bookshop in New York. In Seattle, Scarlett has read at Elliot Bay Books and has also given poetry readings and workshops for teenagers in the youth program enrolled at Paul Allen’s MOPOP Museum.

Scarlett has four self-published collections of poetry, Rocking Underground (2014) The Lock and The Key (2016) Zoreh (2018) Camille (2019). In 2019 she released the spoken word album Catalyst, a radical spoken world album, available on vinyl and all streaming platform. Catalyst features seven poems written and performed by Scarlett, the album was produced by the legendary musician and producer Jimmy Page, who creates a visceral sonic landscape from the poems, creating a new poetic form and language.

Scarlett’s work has been featured in Literary Hub, The London Magazine, British GQ, Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, Violet Book, Hunger Magazine, ELLE, BBC, Sky News and ABC News Radio.

In 2024 she was announced as Poet-in-Residence for Byron 200 at Keats Shelley Museum in Rome, & was the guest judge for the Museum’s 33rd Children’s Poetry Prize for Schools.

She is a volunteer for Bookmark Reading Charity, a British charity that delivers essential reading support and resources to the children who needs it most.

Based in the U.K she is currently working on her latest collection.

Sylvia Whitman of Shakespeare & Company, stated "Scarlett Sabet's poetry is mystical and dreamlike, while also grounded in the gritty realities of our world - in the struggles of women, in friendship, in love that lingers and love that's lost, in the dissolution of childhood and in the tragic consequences of war. If you haven't seen Scarlett Sabet perform, seek her out as soon as you can, and be captivated by her words and presence."

Poetry critic for the New Yorker, Professor Dan Chiasson has described Scarlett as "one of the brightest new stars in poetry’s firmament".