Devour Everything' is a love letter to heroic failure, to creation in the face of destruction, to the mundane made sacred. Ranging from New York to small-town Aberdeenshire, from pop culture to Norse Valkyries, and wrestling with issues of motherhood, memory and loss, Sarah Stewart's deftly illuminating debut collection reminds us that as humans "we are animals / and our bodies remember things". 'In Sarah Stewart's poems we slide between worlds, crossing and recrossing the slippery borders between reality and illusion, past and present, memory and loss. Sharply observed, playful but deeply serious, these poems unsettle all our certainties, show us what we might glimpse when "a stuck door creaks open".' - Helen Tookey Sarah Stewart was born in Aberdeen and worked as a magazine journalist before moving into book publishing as a fiction editor. She has written for Time Out, The Herald, The Big Issue and The Guardian, among others. Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prize and the Wigtown Pamphlet Prize, highly commended in the Bloodaxe/Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize and longlisted for the Brotherton Prize. Her pamphlet 'Glisk' (Tapsalteerie) won the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award. Sarah also writes fiction as Sarah Forbes Stewart. Her novel 'Aren't We Lucky' was released as an Audible Original in 2025, narrated by Nicola Coughlan.
