Sarah Wardle. Courtesy Bloodaxe Books.
Sarah Wardle (born 1969) is an English poet.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Wardle was born in London.
She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College. She studied Classics at Lincoln College, Oxford and English at the University of Sussex.[1][2] She was the president of the Oxford University Conservative Association during Trinity term, 1989.[3][4]
Career[]
Wardle is a lecturer in poetry at Middlesex University, and lives in London.
Her poems have been published in, among others, the Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), The Independent and Independent on Sunday, the London Magazine, New Welsh Review, Poetry Review, and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as in many anthologies. A number of them have also been broadcast on radio and television.[5]
Wardle has written articles and reviews for magazines and newspapers such as Poetry Review, Writing in Education, Times Higher Education Supplement, Times Literary Supplement, and The Observer.
She was poet in residence for Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Her 2nd poetry collection, SCORE! (published by Bloodaxe Books in 2005), included some of the poems she broadcast while poet in residence for the club, as well as the script of a film-poem, X: A Poetry Political Broadcast.[2]
Her 3rd collection, A Knowable World, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2009.
Writing[]
A Knowable World was reviewed by Sarah Crown in The Guardian on 24 January 2009. Crown described the collection as charting "the reel and plunge of the year [Wardle] spent in a psychiatric facility receiving treatment for bipolar disorder." She noted that the collection contained "poems of deep introspection, in which manic episodes, escape attempts and the baffling helplessness of incarceration are examined with agonised honesty," and concluded that "for the most part, these are convincing poems, delivered with a tight formality that echoes the strictures under which Wardle found herself, while at the same time providing her with a means of control over a terrifyingly ungovernable situation."[6]
Recognition[]
In 1999, she won the Geoffrey Dearmer Memorial Prize and Poetry Review's new poet of the year award.[2]
Her debut collection of poetry, Fields Away (2003), was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection).
She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[2]
Sarah Wardle - Travel Better London
Publications[]
Poetry[]
" Party Election Broadcast by the Poetry Party" Starring Hugh Boneville
- Fields Away. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2003.
- Score! Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2005.
- A Knowing World. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2009.
- Beyond. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2014.
- Spiritland. Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe, 2019.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Sarah Wardle, British Council. Web, May 27, 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sarah Wardle, author, Bloodaxe Books. Web, May 27, 2011
- ↑ Former Presidents of Oxford University Conservative Association. Accessed 27th May 2011
- ↑ Survivors Poetry magazine Issue 24, Spring/Winter 2006. Accessed 27th May 2011
- ↑ Sarah Wardle's homepage at the University of Middlesex. Accessed 27th May 2011
- ↑ Guardian books webpages. Accessed 27th May 2011
- ↑ Search results = au:Sarah Wardle, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Dec. 11, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Give", NBFA blog
- "Word Tasting at Jama's Alphabet Soup
- Sarah Wardle's Spurs poems at BBC (3 poems)
- Prose
- Football literature by Sarah Wardle
- Books
- Sarah Wardle at Amazon.com
- About
- Sarah Wardle at Bloodaxe Books
- Sarah Wardle at the British Council
- Sarah Wardle on the Web, Stort Poetry Group
- Interview with Sarah Wardle at Frontier Psychiatrist, 2010
- Review of Fields Away, Pop Matters
- Review of A Knowable World, The Guardian
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