The I of My Storm — Poetry Book Launch
Friday 24 April, 6.30pm | Fable & Green Café, Whitstable
Join Contemporary Kent Artists to celebrate Sarah Wedderburn’s debut poetry collection, The I of My Storm
(Green Bottle Press, 2026).
The ‘I’ in Sarah Wedderburn’s debut poetry collection, The I of My Storm, is, and is not, the poet herself.
The ‘I’ acts as ventriloquist for characters young and old, real and imaginary, looking outwards at the world
and inwards at shifting states and experiences. Speaking through these many voices, the book refracts facets
of what, in the end, is a single prism. It tracks a life of joys and jeopardies, loss and vulnerabilities, failures, false
starts and renewals. It celebrates survival—through love, through the transforming power of nature and the
places we inhabit, through art, and through the mysterious bond that takes hold between humans and animals.
“Wedderburn’s lyric imagination is a wind-swift steed, crossing, not only with speed but with rare grace,
between the realm of magic and that of memory; between the living and the dead.”
Fran Lock
About the poets:
Sarah Wedderburn moved from London to rural East Kent in 2009.The I of My Storm
is her first collection, published by Green Bottle Press.
Katy Evans-Bush is a poet and critic. Her book Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle
was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year (2024).
Fran Lock is a poet, essayist, and editor. She has sixteen books to her name, with
The Department of Queer Complaint due later this year.
Venue: Fable & Green Café, 63 Oxford Street, Whitstable
Time: 6.30pm