Scarlett Sabet at Shakespeare & Company 18 Jun 2016

Scarlett will be performing at Shakespeare & Company in Paris on 7th July 2016. Read a preview from the highly-revered bookshop below...

Join us for an evening with two scintillating young poets, Scarlett Sabet, launching her new collection The Lock and the Key, and Nathan Loceff, launching his first book of poetry and flash-fiction Joys of the Capital. They will be joined by the fantastic cellist-singer-songwriter Dom La Nena. Not to be missed!

07 JULY 2016, 7:00 PM

• 37 rue de la Bûcherie
• 75005
• Paris,
• France

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Scarlett Sabet is a London based poet. Scarlett published her first volume of poems Rocking Underground in 2014, the second edition of which came out in 2016. She has performed her poetry at prestigious venues such as Shakespeare and Company in Paris, and also The Troubadour in London, and also The Poetry Society. Her second collection The Lock and the Key came out in 2016

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The Lock And The Key 01 Jun 2016

The Lock And The Key will be available to purchase on the 1st July 2016

Here is the contents, all the poems that you will find inside. I wrote them all over an intense period of time, pretty much since Rocking Underground was released back in November 2014. It feels like so long ago. I'm really proud of all of these poems, I'm really excited to share them with you, each one has it's own character, it's own voice. They are all waiting to be read and discovered.

Thank you all so much for your love and support I am very grateful and excited!

Chelsea Arts Club 125th Anniversary group show exhibition 01 Jun 2016

To celebrate 125 years since the Chelsea Arts Club was founded by Whistler, the club decided to hold a group show. I entered my poem "Ocean" to be hung in the exhibition in a silver frame. "Ocean" is from my collection The Lock And The Key. It is definitely one of my favourites, I wrote it on the morning of 15th February 2016. It's raw and visceral and I'm really proud to share it with you all and for it to be hanging in the exhibition at The Chelsea Arts Club.

South Bank Poetry at The Poetry Society 04 May 2016

Tonight I performed at the monthly South Bank Poetry magazine event. The night is run by Katherine Lockton and Peter Ebsworth, who also edit and publish the magazine. They are also both poets in their own right. I really respect their commitment and hardwork to putting such a high quality poetry night together. I got called up to read first, I did my two poems Functioning which will be in The Lock And The Key and I read Unnatural Act which was of course published in Rocking Underground. There was some beautiful phrasing from both the headline poets and the open mic poets.

​The Lonely Crowd, Spring Issue 2016 28 Apr 2016

The Lonely Crowd is a Welsh based magazine, and their Spring issue features my poems Functioning and Kunduz. Both of which will be in my forthcoming book The Lock And The Key. I was really pleased that The Lonely Crowd chose to publish those particular poems, due to their subject matter.

Poetry reading at The Groucho Club, Soho, London 19 Apr 2016

The wonderful poet Greta Bellamancina invited me to come and perform some poems at this night she was curating for The Groucho Club, six new maverick voices. I went on first with Zimon Drake, we alternated doing a poem each. I've never actually done a poetry reading in that way before but it was really dynamic it kept the energy up, particularly as our poems were so contrasting.
The four poems I performed were Shackles and Rocking Underground from my first collection Rocking Underground, and Functioning and Euphoric Kiss which will be released in my second book The Lock and The Key.

Every poet that performed had a really strong, unique voice. I was really moved by a poem Greta dedicated to the refugees in the Calais "Jungle" and also her poem 39 Weeks. Robert Montgomery and Niall McDevitt were a really strong force, and had something of Ginsberg about them. It was a pleasure to hear George Khayat's poetry and to get to see him again. He attended the first poetry reading I ever did at the Worlds End Bookshop back in 2013. There were others there last night who were there also on that night in 2013 including the artist Alice Stallard, so it felt like some what of a reunion. Overall a beautiful evening with a really powerful, surging energy.

Lipped Ink, The Poetry Cafe / Poetry Society 16 Apr 2016

I performed at Lipped Ink on Saturday. It was MC'd by Mark "Mr.T" Thompson, and his lovely wife. He performed a poem to kick off and then left it open to all those who who has signed up for the open mic. The basement was full and there were a series of provocative poems read, covering slavery, racism, politics and of course love and sex. I performed two poems in the second half. The headline poet was Deanna Roger.

​Poetry Unplugged 12 Apr 2016

I attended the open mic night held in the basement of The Poetry Society. It was run by the great Niall O'Sullivan and it was a packed evening with 39 poets reading. I read first. Always a pleasure.

The Groucho 03 Apr 2016

Poetry reading at The Troubadour, London 08 Mar 2016

It was a pleasure to be invited by Anne-Marie Fyfe to read at the final night of the Coffee House Poetry Season. It was an intense emotional evening. I read my poem Possession in the second half of the evening. It was great to see Anne-Marie and the other poets and I look forward to the start of the next season of poetry at The Troubadour.

Poetry reading at The Troubadour, London 08 Mar 2016

Anne-Marie Fyfe invited me to read tonight at The Troubadour., the theme was The Sea, The Sea.

I wrote a poem two weeks ago, the subject matter of which is deep and all consuming, so I called it Ocean and read that. It was my first time reading it and it couldn't have been a more receptive audience. The basement at The Troubadour was packed. Such a beautiful variety of other poems were read. Ron Villanueva had a really stirring performance that gave me shivers. And Miranda Peake read a really interesting, provocative poem. Alway so grateful to be invited down by Anne Marie.

​South Bank Poetry 4th February 2016 04 Feb 2016

I went to The Poetry Cafe, on Betterton Street to join in and read at the launch of this month's South Bank Poetry magazine, hosted byKatherine Lockton.

It was a long evening of really great poetry, with Christine Vial, Joolz Sparkes, Paul McGrane, and Peter Phillips headlining.

I enjoyed reading two new poems for the first time to such a warm and receptive audience.