{"id":1706,"date":"2015-01-23T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/devolvedvoices\/?page_id=1706"},"modified":"2018-04-19T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:32:28","slug":"interview-sarah-corbett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/devolved-voices\/media\/interview-sarah-corbett\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Sarah Corbett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sarah Corbett was born in Chester in 1970 and grew up in North Wales. She received a BA in English and Sociology from Leeds University in 1992, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 1998, and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Manchester in 2013. Sarah taught Creative Writing for the Open University <\/a>from 2004 to 2009 and is currently part-time Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Sarah was awarded a residency at The Yaddo Foundation<\/a> in 2005 and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow<\/a> in 2012.<\/p>\n

Sarah began writing poetry as an undergraduate at Leeds, and her first poems were published in magazines such as Pennine Platform<\/a>, Aireings, Iron, Stand<\/a>, Ciphers, Poetry Wales<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and The Rialto<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em>Sarah won an Eric Gregory Award<\/a> for Poetry in 1997, and her first collection, The Red Wardrobe,<\/em> \u00a0was published by Seren books in 1998. The Red Wardrobe <\/em>was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1998. Her second collection from Seren was The Witch Bag<\/em> in 2002, followed by Other Beasts<\/em> in 2008. Sarah\u2019s forthcoming book, And She Was<\/em>, is a verse-novel to be published by Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press) in 2015. Sarah\u2019s work has been widely anthologised, most recently in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets<\/em> <\/a>(Bloodaxe 2010), The Best British Poetry 2012<\/a> <\/em>(Salt 2012) and Sculpted: Poetry of the North West<\/a> <\/em>(NW Poets, 2013).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah has won three Arts Council England Writer\u2019s Awards, for The Inner Tourist<\/em>, a poem for two voices, performed at The Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in 2003, for Other Beasts in 2006 <\/em>and for a new collection of poems, Being Here, in\u00a0<\/em>2011.\u00a0<\/em>Sarah\u2019s current projects include\u00a0\u2018Magical Strangers\u2019, a narrative poem\/film in collaboration with the novelist Nicky Harlow. Sarah hosts the reading series poetrynites@thebookcase, every third Thursday in Hebden Bridge.<\/p>\n

Sarah Corbett’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

Bibliography:<\/strong><\/div>\n
The Red Wardrobe<\/em><\/a> (Seren, 1998) ISBN 9781854112163<\/div>\n
The Witch Bag<\/em> <\/a>(Seren, 2002) ISBN 9781854113221<\/div>\n
Other Beasts<\/em> <\/a>(Seren, 2008) ISBN 9781854114662<\/div>\n
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And She Was<\/em><\/a> (Pavilion, forthcoming 2015) ISBN 9781781381793<\/p>\n