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Sarah Westcott

Languages and Literature, University of Birmingham

Thesis title:

The animal as poetic makar: the poem as multi-species event.

The critical and creative possibilities of human:animal poetry in the Anthropocene.

Research Area

  • Creative Writing
  • Languages and Literature

Publications

Pond, The Braag press: Newcastle, 2024.

Bloom, Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press), 2021.

Slant Light, Pavilion Poetry (Liverpool University Press), 2016.

Inklings, Flipped Eye publishing: London, 2013.

Conferences

Forthcoming: Poetry and the fable: exploring inter-species transformations and the non-human as fabulist.

Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis, University of Kent, Canterbury, May 22-24 2025

Other Research Interests

  • Contemporary poetry
  • Multi-species methodologies
  • Ecopoetics
  • Animal Studies
  • Zoopoetics
  • Zoomusicology
  • Creativity