South Bank Poetry Magazine Launch at The Poetry Place 02 Sep 2015

A really interesting mix of poets. Enjoyed getting to perform, Look forward to next month

Poetry Unplugged at The Poetry Cafe 01 Sep 2015

Performed 'Functioning' and 'Search and Destroy' tonight at the inaugural night of the new season. Got to hear some really interesting performers.

Paul Gorman reviews Rocking Underground 24 Jun 2015

Paul Gorman, journalist, author and commentator on visual culture, recently reviewed Scarlett's Rocking Underground.

He said: "Spare and unflinching, Sabet’s poems coolly and enigmatically meditate on matters of the head and heart."

Read the full review here

Poetry Reading for W.B Yeats 150th Anniversary 18 Jun 2015

I got the chance to perform one of my poems as part of the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B Yeats. 

The event was organised by the wonderful Anne-Marie Fyfe, and the celebration was lead by the critically acclaimed war correspondent and writer Fergal Keane who gave a history to some of the Yeats poems he read so beautifully and also put in to context how they have featured in his own life and work. It was held at the Arts and Crafts Church, St.Michaels and All Angels, Bedford Park, Chiswick, and in his day Yeats was a parishioner there.

Poetry Reading at the Poetry Cafe with Royston Ellis 29 May 2015

Tonight I got to see the legendary Royston Ellis read from his collection Gone Man Squared, it was really cool to hear his work out loud, and his anecdotes in between. I also got the opportunity to perform one of my new poems Euphoric Kiss.

Poetry Reading at Lipped Ink at The Poetry Cafe 16 May 2015

I performed at Lipped Ink tonight at The Poetry Cafe. The night is run by Mark "Mr.T" Thompson and Kemi Taiwo, great to hear the headline act Poetcurious along with everyone else. I really enjoyed performing Euphoric Kiss, Functioning and Rocking Underground in my slot.

The Troubadour 12 May 2015

On Monday 11th May I was invited to perform a 10 minute set at The Troubadour's Coffee House Poetry Night. My set consisted of Shackles, Search and Destroy, I'm so on, alive... ,and Rocking Underground, and also new poems Into The Garden, Functioning and Euphoric Kiss. It was an amazing evening I really enjoyed performing. It was also fantastic to hear the rest of the poets I was billed with, there was such a variety of styles, I particularly enjoyed Mark Huband and Inua Ellams. A very stylishly curated event by the always lovely Anne-Marie Fyfe.

William Morris Gallery Poetry Reading 30 Apr 2015

I performed tonight at the Young Curators Poetry Night at the William Morris Gallery. I performed a new poem "Functioning" and also "Rocking Underground", the audience was great, and the night included lots of other really interesting poets, including Aisling Fahey the Young Poet Laureate for London.

Kensington Chelsea Westminster Today 14 Apr 2015

Scarlett was featured in the Kensington Chelsea Westminster Today this month. Read the article below.

Ask 25-year old London-based poet and performer Scarlett Sabet about her influences and she responds with a breathless litany of names: "Baudelaire, Rossetti, Blake, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, the Beats Poets, Sylvia Plath, Keith Douglas, Kate Tempest, Dean Atta..." Not bad company to keep by a new poet on the block, you'll agree.

reminiscent of the young Clare Pollard... a promising successor, a new generation

Every day Sabet starts by writing three pages of streams of consciousness, "just to get into the flow." Some of the longer pieces in her first published collection, Rocking Underground , were written to the rhythm of an underground train while on her daily commute across town, hence its title; others could have been written anywhere.

In January she gave a reading at Shakespeare & Co, the famous bookshop on the Left Bank in Paris, a literary shrine and home to numerous twentieth-century giants, such as Joyce and Hemingway. In May she will be at The Troubadour in Old Brompton Road, where she has been given a ten minute set, quite something for a poet of her age and experience.

Several of her poems are deep and dark, like Weapon of Choice, Shackles and Unnatural Act. As such they are reminiscent of the young Clare Pollard whose first collection, The Heavy-Petting Zoo, received rave reviews when published in 1998, when she was aged just 19. Her poems were described as "poetic postcards from the edge," demonstrating a precocious adolescent's, "penchant for raw confessionalism." Sabet is a promising successor, a new generation.

With her Pre-Raphaelite looks, Sabet could have been depicted in a painting by Rossetti as well imagined reciting his poetry. As it is, she will be performing her own work as part of the "Spring to Summer's readings at The Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, SW5 9JA on Monday 11th May between 8 and 10pm. Tickets £7. A limited edition of her first collection, Rocking Underground , is available, signed and numbered, from her website at £25.

The Troubadour, Coffee House Poetry 09 Mar 2015

I was invited by Anne Marie Fyfe to read a poem at the Coffee Hose Poetry "Big Yellow Taxi" themed night. I read a poem I wrote called "Euphoric Kiss", and had a great time hearing such a high standard and variety of poems from everyone involved.

Poetry Unplugged, 3rd March 2015 06 Mar 2015

On Tuesday 3rd March Scarlett took part in Poetry Unplugged at the Poetry Place in Covent Garden.

Shakespeare and Company, Paris 26 Jan 2015

Shakespeare and Company is steeped in literary history and it had been an ambition and milestone in my literary career to have performed a 30 minute set there with such an enthusiastic response.

The poetry reading was held in the library upstairs, where William Burroughs researched and started writing Naked Lunch. I was reading with the wonderful poet Heather Hartley. Heather read first, and I really enjoyed listening to her work, it's lovely and lyrical. She was reading from her books Knock Knock and her latest volume Adult Swim. I then did my set, and recited poems from Rocking Underground, along with two new poems, Into The Garden, and Euphoric Kiss. Afterwards I signed copies of Rocking Underground which are now also available from Shakespeare and Company. It was an amazing night I really enjoyed and will carry it with me for a long time.

It was first opened by Sylvia Beach in 1919, where it attracted bohemians and writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Ford Maddox Ford, and James Joyce. Sylvia Beach was responsible for getting Joyce's Ullysses published, considered obscene, it was continuously rejected, and Beach triumphed only when she found a French printer that didn't speak English.

After the war it was reopened by George Whitman opposite Norte Dame George allowed writers, poets and artists to live at the bookshop in return they would help maintain and work at the shop. Thus, it became a literary focal point attracting many of the Beat Generation poets such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and the likes of Henry Miller and Anais Nin.

Shakespeare and Company is now run by George's luminous daughter Sylvia (named after Sylvia Beach) and she continues the tradition of allowing writers known as "Tumbleweeds' to live and work at the store. As well as holding regular poetry readings and book signings, she holds a biennial literary festival, FestivalandCo.