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SARAH HOWE is a Hong Kong-born British poet and editor. Her first collection of poems, Loop of Jade (2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Her second collection, Foretokens (2025), was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. A US edition of both books, Babel’s Drift, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in April 2027.

 

‘Howe is peerless and I look at her work, happily, with awe’
Ocean Vuong

 

‘Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe’s poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place... surprising and moving...’
Edmund De Waal

 

‘Sophisticated and slant, versatile and complex...one of our finest poets’
Bernardine Evaristo

 

‘One of the very best books of poems I have read for a long time – complicated and moving and very accomplished...’
A.S. Byatt