Poets Who Edit: Featuring Sarah Howe

Poets Who Edit is a new reading series sponsored by Poetry Research @ Manchester Met and MA Publishing, which invites award-winning poets who are also editors at influential presses from across the UK’s diverse publishing scene, for readings and workshops at Manchester Poetry Library. Visiting poet-editors include Sarah Howe (Chatto & Windus), Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Granta) and Luke Thompson (Guillemot Press).

Sarah Howe is a poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), was the first debut collection to win the T.S. Eliot Prize, and her pamphlet, A Certain Chinese Encyclopedia (Tall-lighthouse, 2009), won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She is the poetry editor of Chatto & Windus, where her list includes poets such as Kaveh Akbar, Romalyn Ante and Leo Boix. Howe is Lecturer in Poetry at King’s College London where, alongside her research interests in contemporary British and American poetry, she is a scholar of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature. Her publications on Renaissance writing and art revolve around interdisciplinary approaches to word and image, rhetoric and poetics, and literature and the visual imagination