Dr Sarah Jackson

Sarah Jackson is a poet and researcher who works at the intersections of writing, art and technology in order to address questions of social and environmental justice. Bringing together creative and critical practice, her current work focuses on geopoetics, displacement and ways of listening. An award-winning poet, BBC New Generation Thinker, NTU VC Outstanding Researcher, AHRC Leadership Fellow and founding director of Critical Poetics (2015 - 2024), Sarah is currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow and Associate Professor in Arts & Environnment at Northumbria.  

Sarah’s publications include Pelt (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry 2013); Tactile Poetics: Touch and Contemporary Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Unidentifiable Literary Objects, a special issue of parallax (2019), co-edited with Camilla Bostock; Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (Bloomsbury, 2023); Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Daniel Cordle; and Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees, co-edited with Olja Mladjenovič (Palewell, 2025). Telepoetics, co-edited with Philip Leonard and Annabel Williams, is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press in 2026. In 2021, her film Calling Across Borders, co-created with a group of young refugees, was shortlisted for the Best Research Film in the Research in Film Awards; her interactive sound installation Voice Notes, created with Hardi Kurda, has been exhibited in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nottingham, London and Ghent, and was selected for the PRS New Music Biennial 2025.