The Writers' Centre presents Sarah Howe, Keith Jarrett, and Olive Franklin

Poets Sarah Howe, Keith Jarrett and Olive Franklin in conversation with Richard Scott

Sarah Howe is a Hong Kong-born poet, poet and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second, Foretokens (2025) is a PBS Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Previous honours include fellowships from Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool and the Poetry Editor at Chatto & Windus.

Keith Jarrett is a writer, performer, and educator from London, UK. He is the author of the poetry collection Selah (Burning Eye Books, 2017), the play Safest Spot in Town (2017), as well as the poetry pamphlet I Speak Home (Eyewear, 2015). His new collection is Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall be Satisfied (Bad Betty Press, 2026).

Olive Franklin is published in Granta, Poetry, The Poetry Review, alongside other magazines across the UK and Ireland. Her debut pamphlet Dyke Juvenalia won the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize.

Richard Scott is the author of Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018) and most recently That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber & Faber, 2025).

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