Sarah Mnatzaganian is an award winning Anglo-Armenian poet. Her debut pamphlet, Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter, won ‘Best Poetry Pamphlet’ in the 2022 Saboteur Awards. Poems from Lemonade have been translated into Hebrew, and have inspired a song cycle by award winning composer Noah Max, premiered in 2025 at the Lionel Tertis international viola festival at the Glasshouse, Gateshead.
Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter can be ordered from Topping & Company Ely. If you would like to order a signed copy, please email for further details.
‘A poet with keen senses, warm feelings and a natural lyric gift, Sarah luminously awakens the colours, textures and aromas that have characterized her life. Tracing with care and affection the threads that bind her to her Armenian heritage, she conjures up delicate but richly evocative images of childhood, motherhood and family, always alive to the subtle meanings of food, clothes and custom, as distant worlds and people are recollected with wisdom, grace and insight. Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter is a debut collection of great charm and wide appeal that should find many grateful readers.’ – Topping & Company Ely
‘A sharply sensitive pamphlet that express[es] the juice of each word, refining – like lemons into lemonade – the bittersweet segments of life into a smooth, distinctive whole. Recommended.’
Sarah Barnsley for The Frogmore Papers
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‘Full of colour and rich, sensory detail, these are warm and often moving poems, utterly unlike anyone else’s. Such a pleasure.’
Peter Sansom
