Ache

Scarlett Ward is an incredible young West Midlands poet as comfortable on the page as in performance, with a real ear for language and an imagination to match. Her debut collection, created with help and advice from Liz Berrry and others, doesn't disappoint, as it takes its Insta-concerns (Scarlett has 10k+ followers) of depression, insecurity, mental ill-health and the deep and powerful ache of a love found, and turns them in to quite startling poetry -at times as light as petals, at others as heavy and violent as a hob nail boot. Read, gasp, enjoy.

Scarlett Ward is a 25 year-old poet working from Cannock UK. Her work has recently featured in anthologies from Hedgehog Poetry, Fishbowl Publishing and Fly on the Wall Press. She runs a monthly from her family café 'Del Nino,' which was nominated and shortlisted for a Sabbotage Award in 2018.