“intricate as lace but as sharp as daggers”

George Szirtes

“original and utterly convincing.”

Bernard O’Donoghue

“a striking debut, abounding in verve and rigour...A fine first collection from an exciting new poet.”

Poetry Book Society Bulletin

biography

Sarah Hesketh was born in 1983 and brought up in Pendle, East Lancashire. She attended Merton College, Oxford and obtained a BA in English Literature. During her time in Oxford she served as president of the University Poetry Society and as an editor of Oxford Poetry Magazine.

Since graduating, she has lived and taught English in Warsaw and in the UK and worked for an antiquarian book dealer. She holds and MA in Creative Writing from UEA and in 2007 her collaboration with composer Alastair Caplin was performed at the Leeds Lieder Festival.

She currently lives in London and works as Assistant Director at the literature and free speech charity English PEN, as well as teaching creative writing part-time for the Open University.