Sarah Cave

“The Roger and Laura Farnworth Residency in Warleggan gave me time and space to contemplate new projects and to start writing toward my 3rd full length poetry collection.” — Sarah Cave

Sarah is a poet, academic and editor.

Sarah co-runs the award-winning Guillemot Press with Luke Thompson and, independently, she has edited several anthologies, magazines & recently guest edited the experimental journal Stride.

Sarah is currently working on a practice-based doctoral thesis on Contemporary Poetry and Prayer at Royal Holloway. She is working toward her third collection of poetry and has previously published three pamphlets and two collections of poetry: Cast on Ice (Smallminded Press), Impossible Songs (Flashback Analogue), like fragile clay (Guillemot Press), An Arbitrary Line (Broken Sleep Books) and Perseverance Valley (Knives, Forks and Spoons).

In January 2020, Sarah’s verse essay The Autophagy of Mary is forthcoming from Shearsman. The publication is part of a collaborative project titled A Confusion of Marys. Sarah’s poetry, prose and criticism has appeared in various magazines and journals including: Poetry London; Shearsman; Oxford Poetry; Datableed; Tears in the Fence; and The Clearing.

In 2018, Sarah’s poem Untitled (Unwanted) was commended by the Verve Poetry Festival Competition. In 2017, Sarah was poet-in-residence at the Charles Causley house in Launceston. In 2017 and 2018, she was poet-in-residence for the Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival and currently co-curates the festival’s Guillemot day.

Cast on Ice (Smallminded Books, 2016)
Impossible Songs (Flashback Analogue, 2017)
like fragile clay (Guillemot Press, 2018) - available here
An Arbitrary Line (Broken Sleep Books, 2018)
Perseverance Valley (Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, 2019)
A Confusion of Marys (Shearsman, 2020)

You can also find Sarah’s website here.

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@campanilecave (Twitter)
@cavepoet (Instagram)