Kensington, Chelsea & Westminster Today 01 Feb 2016

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

Readers may take the opportunity to go and experience her readings for themselves. They don't disappoint!

Leading this month's page are two performance pieces and a poetry review. The first poem is Reflections by Scarlett Sabet followed by Snowdrops by John Armstrong. Passionate, palpable and loaded with an emotional intensity, Sabet’s poem Reflections owns its guilelessness and vulnerability with pride! Often on Tuesday evenings Sabet can be seen performing at the poetry café on Betterton Street, Covent Garden, at the open mic session. Readers may take the opportunity to go and experience her readings for themselves. They don’t disappoint!

Coffee House Poetry Night at The Troubadour, London 14 Dec 2015

I was invited by Anne Marie Fyfe to come down and read at The Troubadour, which is always a pleasure. The theme was "Winter".

I choose to read a poem I wrote called "Kunduz: Remembering Baynazar Mohammad Nazar".

It was a poem I wrote last week, after seeing a photograph taken by the photojournalist Andrew Quilty of the dead body of Baynazar Mohammad Nazar, he was being operated on at The Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan when it was bombed by the US as a result of human error. He was a husband and father of four. There is a fund going to raise money for the family he left behind.

I was glad to get to perform it, especially as it was so new.

Afterwards a lady came up to me and said "We needed a serious one. That was an important testimony".

That moved me to tears. I felt I'd done my job as a poet.

The Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden 12 Dec 2015

I performed some new poems at Platform 1 open mic night at The Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden.

It was great to hear such a range of interesting work from the other poets that performed. 

Poetry In London's First Friday's Poetry Night 02 Oct 2015

It was the one year anniversary of First Friday's and it kicked off with a great start with Kemi Taiwo, who performed an eloquent and hard hitting piece. I followed after her and performed "Functioning" and "Rocking Underground".

There was a great variety from the open mic crowd, and it was headlined by poet and illustrator Spike Zephaniah, who manages to draw a crowd by literally drawing the crowd. Indeed he drew my portrait as I was performing. His work is really interesting and immersive, with the hard and fast delivery of a young John Cooper Clarke. 

It was great to be reading with so many vibrant poets.

Nangle Rare Books: Worlds End Bookshop Bookmark Preview 27 Sep 2015

Nangle Rare Books specialises in rare and collectable books. Julian Nangle, the owner, has over thirty years experience in the field and it enjoys an extensive collection including Oscar Wilde, Henry Williamson, Thomas Hardy, T.E.Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, Bloomsbury writers, Adrian Bell and countless others.

Here is Julian's blog post following the Worlds End Bookshop Bookmark Preview and part-poetry Reading earlier this week.

Perhaps we are, at last, at the dawn of a new time of interest in poetry. The place was packed with a younger generation interested in poetry – Scarlett is just 25. I do believe poetry is having a serious revival and I drink to that – long may it last.

Read more about the evening here

World's End Bookshop's Bookmark Poems Preview Party 25 Sep 2015

I went to the Worlds End bookshop in Chelsea to celebrate an event for Bookmark Poems published by Wordpress.

I was invited to read "Three O'Clock in the Morning" by Andrew Motion and my own two poems "Functioning" and "Rocking Underground".

I was lucky enough to be in the company of David Harsent, Michael Horowitz, Roger McGough, A.F Harrold, and Ruth Fainlight.

It was a wonderful return to my beloved World's End Bookshop, the place of my very first poetry reading in 2013.

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.