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    On this day
    2013
    I attended Scarlett Sabet’s first poetry reading

    Here in London at the Worlds End Bookshop I had the opportunity to hear Scarlett Sabet read, recite and live her poems for the first time.

    Her character and charisma was unique and unlike any other poet I had witnessed. That night Scarlett delivered an extraordinary version of her poem Rocking Underground.

    The people attending the reading gave her a rousing response to this poem. I knew from that poem and others she read that night that Scarlett was indeed a very special poet.

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    I thought it would be exciting to do a project together, and in 2019 we released Catalyst, a spoken word album, which I produced with poems written and performed by Scarlett. I wanted to create something in a radical new form, and I believed that the poems featured here could display a new dimension to the spoken word, her spoken word, and her genius.

    After the pandemic, we had a playback and reading of Catalyst at the Library of Congress, in Washington D.C and we were interviewed about the creative process. Catalyst continues to have a life of its own.

    Beautiful album photo was taken by my daughter, the photographer Scarlet Page.

    Rocking Underground
    Scarlett Sabet