Feedback / Mentoring
I am an experienced professional provider of written poetry feedback, and have mentored many poets into print, some for the first time. My feedback is robust yet sensitive, and entirely constructive. If you are a fellow poet who is interested in finding out how I can support you in developing your creative practice, please do have a look at this PDF for more information, and feel free to get in touch with me via the contact page on this website. In the meantime, here are some recent testimonials:
Sarah’s feedback is generous, detailed, considered, encouraging and most of all helpful – I would urge anyone thinking of joining one of her courses to seize this option with both hands.
I’d like to say that I really appreciate your intense scrutiny of the poems and the time and energy you have given to each of them... Your clear explanations of the rationale behind your critique is useful too. The reader’s attention is what we aim to capture, so an intelligent reader’s considered and honest response is invaluable.
Thanks for the feedback. It's very encouraging and helpful.
Your feedback is pitched exactly right for me – so gentle and encouraging but also pointing out which bits need work. I agree with all! It’s also great to have such close reading of the spelling and punctuation...
Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! ... Thank you for your kind and encouraging words... after your feedback I have all this new energy to make new poems, which is very exciting!
Thank you so much for your lovely careful feedback, which I’ve been studying carefully... I hope you understand how grateful I am to you.
Thank you so much for such engaged and insightful feedback! Your expertise is excellent – so helpful!! I’ve been reading your feedback again as a tonic and a boost. Thank you again for your encouragement and for your illuminating analysis and close reading.
Thank you so much for your very detailed feedback. It was enlightening to read and I intend to take time to digest and go through your constructive and helpful comments.
Many many thanks for your wonderful feedback and taking the time to go through each poem in detail. I will incorporate your suggested changes... It really helps to hear what is working.
I have really enjoyed and appreciated your feedback. Very encouraging and constructive. I can see I have a bit of work to do on them but feel inspired and motivated to put the effort in – thanks to you.
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