https://naushsabah.com/events daily 0.75 2023-10-31 https://naushsabah.com/events/writing-untold-stories-070422 monthly 0.5 2022-03-23 https://naushsabah.com/events/newcastle-poetry-festival-emergency-poetry-summit monthly 0.5 2022-04-16 https://naushsabah.com/events/kendal-poetry-festival-talkdiscussion-the-editors-perspective monthly 0.5 2022-04-16 https://naushsabah.com/events/kendal-poetry-festival-main-reading-with-don-paterson-naush-sabah monthly 0.5 2022-04-16 https://naushsabah.com/events/michael-marks-awards-event monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://naushsabah.com/events/representations-of-border-crossings-in-literature-media-and-the-arts monthly 0.5 2022-11-25 https://naushsabah.com/events/wrap-cafe-ntu monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://naushsabah.com/events/poetry-and-players monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://naushsabah.com/biography daily 0.75 2024-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/8bb87a9a-a27b-4d87-88f4-433bd9e58a32/20211023_164150.jpg Biography Naush Sabah is a writer, editor, and educator based in the West Midlands. In 2019, she co-founded Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal where she is currently Editor and Publishing Director. The journal is a quarterly periodical of contemporary poetry and poetry criticism, described by the TLS as ‘intellectually lithe and provocative’ with a ‘dynamic and incisive critical section’. Her writing has appeared in The Poetry Review, the TLS, PN Review, The Dark Horse, Modern Poetry in Translation, and elsewhere. A limited-edition double micro-pamphlet box set Heredity/ASTYNOME was published by Broken Sleep Books imprint Legitimate Snack in June 2020. She was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2021 Sky Arts Writers Award. Her debut pamphlet Litanies was published by Guillemot Press in November 2021 and shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award in 2022. It has been reviewed in The Guardian as having ‘something of Thomas Hardy’s bittersweet dialogue with the divine,’ and in The Irish Times as, ‘an exciting and auspicious set of poems’. Naush was Birmingham Literature Festival’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence in 2022 and she is currently Poet-in-Residence at the Birmingham & Midland Institute. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birmingham City University. Photograph by Gerry Cambridge https://naushsabah.com/home daily 1.0 2022-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615214309316-M3MM3TVQTTI39E2CJOZB/naush.jpeg Home https://naushsabah.com/books daily 0.75 2022-12-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1635764987645-DX4OG3YUTA2ZEPAVXYIC/Screenshot_20211101-110841.png Books - Heredity/ASTYNOME Released as a special limited edition double micro-pamphlet box set, Heredity/ASTYNOME was published in June 2020 under the Legitimate Snack imprint by Broken Sleep Books and sold out immediately. ‘Heredity’ is a long three-part poem exploring intergenerational change and exchange. ‘ASTYNOME’ is a sequence of seven poems voiced as a contemporary re-imagining of the character Cressida. The micro-pamphlets can be made available as a PDF at a small cost for interested readers; use the contact form for enquiries. Reviews Declan Ryan, writing in Ambit, says: Heredity is its best in its accretions of details, its documentary eye . . . [In ASTYNOME] the blending of ultra-contemporary and slightly more formal diction with a trust in a more overheard sort of speech results in lines full of musical charge and affecting directness . . . Daniel Bennett, writing in Wild Court, says: If poetry ever had ‘must have’ purchases, then Naush Sabah’s [Heredity/ASTYNOME] proved to be one of these over the summer . . . The two chapbooks of Heredity/ASTYNOME showcase themes of family and love, enacting a reclamation of places and voices. While reading Sabah’s work, I was struck by the essential difference between the ‘poetic’ and poetry. The poetic aspires more than it achieves, and is basically what novelists invoke when they want to be to be taken seriously. Poetry is what Sabah practices: direct and persuasive, where the modes of personal and literary history intersect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/00f5ab5c-ebe8-4e8c-a554-78749d1c03d1/spw59j.jpg Books - Litanies (Guillemot Press, 2021) Using Sufi prayers and sacred texts as a starting point, Litanies explores doubt, dissent and dislocation, seeking to replace prayer with poetry. The cover art is by Rachid Koraichi, from the Rumi series. ISBN 978-1-913749-18-7 / 36 pages / 210 x 120mm / Printed on Mohawk Superfine with Favini Crush cover and Fedrigoni Cocktail end papers. Pamphlet SHORTLISTED FOR THE MICHAEL MARKS POETRY AWARD 2022 Reviews David Wheatley, writing in The Guardian, says: Sabah has something of Thomas Hardy’s bittersweet dialogue with the divine, his eye for the disappointments and betrayals of love, in what are poems of huge emotional courage. Already well known as an editor, Sabah’s blossoming as a poet is a spectacle to behold. Seán Hewitt, writing in The Irish Times, says: Litanies is assured and intricately textured . . . an exciting and auspicious set of poems . . . it is also unusual in its complex and daring politics . . . It has a feel of Rilke, but Sabah’s metaphysics are disillusioned, sometimes violent, sometimes plaintive. These poems unearth uncertainties, and prize them. Rory Waterman, writing in PN Review, says: These poems marry their sometimes anguished conviction to an unusual panache for formal and linguistic dexterity . . . Who else is writing like this, now, and with at once such immediacy and breadth of reference? . . . this is a stunning debut, that cliché for once fit for what it describes. From the Poetry Book Society Bulletin (Spring 2022) : Poems . . . both finely chosen and wide-ranging, discussing faith, womanhood, shame, anger, and God . . . This is a pamphlet filled with a complexity that refuses easy answers. https://naushsabah.com/portfolio daily 0.75 2021-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/02d21079-cfbe-401c-8c9f-303004478092/RSF-logo-web-360px-1.png Portfolio Commission for web library article for Rebecca Swift Foundation. December 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615281575366-ZHIF2CB6A95MVJ4DNWZD/authorpic.jpg Portfolio Juror for Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/0a7c7070-a437-4946-9b7e-7e42ed3d3e13/BLF-logo-black.jpeg Portfolio Inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Birmingham Literature Festival. I read during a number of events throughout the festival, creating new work in response to the festival programming and event themes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/63954a25-0dde-41cc-898a-fd060ca226d7/Logo-1.png Portfolio Reading and discussion as part of Bad Lilies digital event for Sylvia Plath Fest 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/33a03538-329a-47aa-9bdb-f95cdc19f572/p0c10h49.jpeg Portfolio Commission for Radio 3's The Essay Series on the theme of 'Coming Home' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/607163be-1459-4e93-9610-ee25ed41c9ca/PXL_20220520_122934882.jpg Portfolio Poem Commission from BMAG - Ekphrastic poem responding to the statue of Lucifer in the Round Room. Exhibited for BMAG's 2022 reopening. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/3e7a7e0a-4bad-42c5-9a84-15fa82574fe7/30-Main-Reading-Don-Patterson-Naush-Sabah.jpeg Portfolio Kendal Poetry Festival - Main Event Reading with Don Paterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/711e9d49-db2c-4372-8227-9c164e08d116/20211023_164150.jpeg Portfolio Kendal Poetry Festival - The Editor's Perspective. Hour-long event in conversation with festival director Kim Moore and audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/f93383d7-ee25-4a11-81d7-e2efd4f88a07/ncpf.png Portfolio Newcastle Poetry Festival 2022 - Panel event on inequality in the arts with Rishi Dastidar, Yomi Sode, and Jo Clement https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/a6407688-0e7c-4fe0-bb12-5db24988637e/p0byb41g.jpeg Portfolio Collaborative commission with Gerry Cambridge for Radio 3's The Verb on Books and Pens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1698713269791-2VWXW3Z3GV35UK3MC5FX/ypn-header-new-2.jpg Portfolio Feature article for Young Poets Network 'How to Work in the Arts' series. May 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1698712905601-NMLXLV43UXJJU903ES08/PXL_20220409_141242831.jpg Portfolio Double page spread feature article in Spring 2022 Poetry News on poetry in Birmingham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/f4537329-de38-4bb5-9922-61e7d38e6c53/IMG_7324.JPG Portfolio Gulley Live – Inaugural event by Birmingham-based South Asian poetry collective Gully (photo credit: Lexi Tomlinson) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615281575366-ZHIF2CB6A95MVJ4DNWZD/authorpic.jpg Portfolio Nottingham Creative Writing Hub – reading with Togara Muzanenhamo and students from NTU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/7c27c17a-13af-4ef3-8ad5-c86c125ea184/FJ3uG4DXoAUdmzC.jpeg Portfolio Creative Conversations reading series at University of Glasgow hosted by Colin Herd of the Creative Writing Department and held at the University Chapel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/9f3d8e6d-81af-4951-be2b-2ba2caab4908/8SFR_jQM_400x400.jpeg Portfolio Speaker at careers panel event as part of ICCW day for MA creative writing students at BCU School of English. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/c5f501d7-0b6f-4cc3-ae4a-eaa5a1ac8d87/Website-Update-and-Future-We-Want3-346x214.jpeg Portfolio Speaker at Orwell Lecture pre-event for Orwell Youth Fellows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/eb7255f3-5696-4e52-b068-c554235fd57c/bees-final.jpeg Portfolio 'New Stories Were Born', a short review for the TLS of Brevity; a journal of concise nonfiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/406d3ee8-7038-42d4-af47-2feed9bfefe8/Screenshot+2021-11-01+at+16.30.56.png Portfolio Two Poems—‘Closures’, ‘Animal’—in Issue 4: ‘Ghosts’ of Bad Lilies digital poetry magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/911f084c-60ad-4efb-a659-1308556edd01/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_140637963_265540008043_1_original.jpeg Portfolio Poets & Publishers event; discussion and Q&A on publishing with Luke Thompson from Guillemot Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/dc9673ea-4272-4e57-8059-3f8e299dbeba/lets-get-critical-square.jpeg Portfolio ‘Reading and Discussion: Let’s Get Critical’ at Push The Boat Out Poetry Festival in Edinburgh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/97c91d86-78e6-4d05-8b01-7cc66aea4be6/FCJJlEeWEAURPIr.jpeg Portfolio Regional Writer Event as part of Birmingham Literature Festival 2021, speaking alongside Gillian McAllister. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615281418319-AOJQIJYR8X27710LL6F5/Poets%2BDirectory%2BPhone%2BBox___serialized2.jpg Portfolio Poets Directory Live—Reading for virtual Stanza group reading series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/9de8d66e-e713-45bb-b6bc-453e882de605/naush-sabah-1536x942.jpeg Portfolio ‘Bad, Mad, and Bold Mixtape’ article for The Poetry Review's digital content. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1635784594154-NV7R75DU1CQU3CXKV6JI/1113-Poetry-Review_Cover-RGB-300-768x1165.jpg Portfolio ‘Cupid and Psyche’, a review of Keats’s Odes by Anahid Nersessian for The Poetry Review, Autumn 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/169c35ca-6a7c-4d5d-9c49-5958f7b35fd3/AssetAccess8.jpeg Portfolio ‘Clear water between the stresses’, a review of The Craft of Poetry by Lucy Newlyn for the TLS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615282402907-UJ1JIJWSQQFY046T9I3Y/M78-angled-book.jpg Portfolio Collaborative poem ‘Quinton’, written with Suna Afshan, for Magma 78 ‘Collaborations’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/eb7255f3-5696-4e52-b068-c554235fd57c/bees-final.jpeg Portfolio Short review of Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace for the TLS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615281418319-AOJQIJYR8X27710LL6F5/Poets%2BDirectory%2BPhone%2BBox___serialized2.jpg Portfolio Spotlight Poet with two poems ‘August Rain’ and ‘Mirror’ for Poets Directory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615281347620-RG9HAPF2Z44HN6QSRJGZ/Screenshot%2B2021-03-09%2Bat%2B09.15.12.jpg Portfolio Commissioned writer for Multistory’s ‘Stories in Isolation’ project during the first Covid lockdown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615281575366-ZHIF2CB6A95MVJ4DNWZD/authorpic.jpg Portfolio Author talks and speaking engagements at University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, University of Westminster, and elsewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615282250248-FDVGO5K3NKPKN6C32U99/Screenshot%2B2021-03-09%2Bat%2B09.29.56.jpg Portfolio I've compèred for monthly readings ‘Words@the Warehouse Cafe’ in Digbeth, Birmingham. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/1615282988060-JJ27I1DGINLCP1B36K4H/EulaYOpXYAI1OPS.jpg Portfolio Poem ‘Uncloaked’, a creative translation/adaptation of Imam Burisi’s Qasida Burda, in Modern Poetry in Translation, Spring 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/c5f501d7-0b6f-4cc3-ae4a-eaa5a1ac8d87/Website-Update-and-Future-We-Want3-346x214.jpeg Portfolio Judge for the Orwell Youth Prize 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/30f98435-ccd3-4354-b55a-691dbc015506/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_127681965_3172556521_1_original.jpeg Portfolio PBLJ Showcase at PLATFORM: Black and Asian Writers Conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/a56971c7-bf58-4cb9-9e0c-2349e6958def/M79-angled_book.jpeg Portfolio Commissioned poem for Magma 79, ‘Middle C’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/c2a52a9f-60ae-4fb3-ac0b-42723496b091/1607088098_ntu-logo.jpeg Portfolio Panel event on contemporary poetry magazine publication for the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/dc9e917d-8917-4b43-b953-160a38eabc35/https___cdn.evbuc.com_images_127676221_1137888853_1_original.jpeg Portfolio Reading at ‘Speaking for Ourselves’ event for X-change Festival on International Women’s Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604635e7e6eaa85ec6a8f1a1/66091730-8728-40a2-8ab6-4a054260516c/Screenshot+2021-11-01+at+17.41.52.png Portfolio Two Poems—‘Questions of Faith’ from Litanies, ‘Can you feel that?’—in Issue 43 of The Dark Horse magazine. 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