Sarah Dawson

Sarah Dawson is a PhD student at the University of Leeds, researching the practice of failure in contemporary experimental poetry performance. She uses practice research to study the relationships between creative and everyday failures, devising performances that that risk failure due to a high level of difficulty. Recently, she has performed at the European Poetry Festival, the Process, Practice and Performance conference at Leeds Beckett University, and the Runnymede International Literary Festival. expecting a different result, her collection of visual poems working through a process of mourning, was published in 2020 by HVTN’s Interruptions imprint.