WINNER OF THE WIGTOWN POETRY PRIZE ALASTAIR REID PAMPHLET PRIZE 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7394085-0-3
Available from Wigtown Book Festival here

Competition judge Vahni Capildeo said: “[…]deliberately delicate and pretty language charts flux and destruction. This is the individual lyric’s ability to sing, lovingly attuned to our common home, turning into collective lament. The techniques match the preoccupations: pleasing, quietly alarming repetitions and re-cyclings in forms that have been crafted as fixed, while the voice continues flowing as if free.”

 
An audio-visual version of the pamphlet can also be enjoyed here.

BOOK BUNDLE OFFER

Rain Falling and Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic (Verve Poetry Press, 2022), Sarah’s Forward Prize highly commended and International Rubery Book Award shortlisted collection.


Blood Sugar, Sex, Magic & Rain Falling (with p&p options)

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REVIEWS

“Sarah Leavesley’s prize-winning pamphlet, Rain Falling, explores the beauties and the catastrophes of the world we live in now. I’d call her work luminous: there’s a lot of light in these shape-poems, while at their core, there’s a lot of loss.

“[…] This is beautifully-made, deeply-felt poetry. It is of real importance in these disturbing times, and I hope it will be widely read.”

Jean Atkin, London Grip, full review here.

“Rain Falling is a stirring long poem, a battle-cry for action from humanity. Sarah’s innovative formatting of her urgent message is astonishing in its very complexity. It is a poem sequence formatted in the shape of capital letters which spell out the title ‘Rain Falling.’ The poems forming each letter reveal the ravages of climate change on the planet, the extinction of many species, the neglectful role that humans have played and continue to play by their systematic failure to act effectively to halt the impending doom. […]

“Rain Falling is a highly accomplished chapbook, intelligent and convincing. If the reader were ever sceptical about climate change, this will convince him/her to think again, and more than that, to act now, before it is too late.”

Margaret Royall, Everybody’s Reviewing, full review here.