Sarah Beckett

Sarah Beckett is English by birth and Trinidadian by long residency and adoption. She has been writing since the 1980’s and her poetry has been published in the UK, Australia and Trinidad. She has given many readings in Trinidad, including the Bocas Litfest, and in the UK, Guyana, Amsterdam and Serbia. Iere is her first book.

Beckett is also an internationally recognized artist having exhibited extensively throughout the Caribbean, Europe and The Far East, winning many international awards.

For several years Beckett designed carnival bands for Notting Hill Gate Carnival and worked in the Ethnic Minorities Unit if the Greater London Council in London. She has taught at the University of the West Indies and has produced two films in collaboration with Alex de Verteuil and Luke Paddington. Alabaster Moon, a documentary celebrating the cross-fertilization of the arts in Trinidad and Tobago, was premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2008.