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Scarlett Sabet

Possession by Scarlett Sabet, was featured on her spoken word album Catalyst, produced by Jimmy Page, a unique piece work in a new poetic language.

Possession
Maybe Our souls are haunted
By sainted bodies
Who didn't fit their own time
But have come
To be fleshed and bodied
As we align.
All that will come to pass Is more than you
Or I could ever ask They couldn't get it right in their time
So they are borrowing the stars
From these nights of mine
When things so physical come to pass
How is it, That which is spiritual screams the loudest,
Screams with splattered blood
With every physical manifestation of our love
These nights are the hottest Making rivers down the meridians of our bodies In this trance like state
Something in us awakes My soul rises as I get closer to you,
I feel you rising too.
Step evenly
Every elegant line of your body The turn and curve of your stomach
And the fold in your arms
And all the magick about your fingers and wrists
As you tap into existence things which do not yet exist

Scarlett Sabet is a poet and writer, hailed by The Telegraph as "a rising star in the world of poetry."

She has performed at Hay Festival, Byline Festival, and Cheltenham Literary Festival, Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C, City Lights in San Francisco, Lowell, US, for the Kerouac Centenary Festival, and at the Gulf of Poets Festival in Lerici, Italy for the Keats-Shelley House.

Scarlett has four self-published collections of poetry, and in 2020 she released the spoken word album Catalyst, produced by Jimmy Page.

In 2024 she announced as Poet-in-Residence for Byron 200 at Keats Shelley Museum in Rome, and was the guest judge for the Museum's 33rd Children's Poetry Prize for Schools. She is a volunteer for Bookmark Reading Charity and is currently working on her new collection

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