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Where the Seals Sing

In her debut work of creative non-fiction, Susan journeys to the crags and crevices of Britain's coast, learning not only how grey seals live but also, in the light of the many threats they face, how we should live more sensitively with them.

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Words The Turtle Taught Me

Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and emerging from Susan's residency with the Marine Conservation Society, 'Words the Turtle Taught Me' includes both poetry and creative non-fiction on endangered ocean wildlife.

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skindancing

A Celtic selkie. A prehistoric lionman. A sleep-starved woman taunted by an insomnia llama. A hippo living under the stairs. Susan's third poetry collection, 'skindancing', explores human/animal metamorphosis and our tangled relationship with the wild.

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Where the Air is Rarefied

Featuring Susan's poetry alongside images by printmaker Pat Gregory, 'Where the Air is Rarefied' focuses on environmental and mythological themes relating to the Far North.

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Creatures of the Intertidal Zone

Susan's first collection of poetry, 'Creatures of the Intertidal Zone', was inspired by her journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in the footsteps of an intrepid eleventh century female Viking.

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Anthologies and Journals

Over a hundred of Susan’s poems have been published in print and online anthologies and journals in the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia.

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Two of Me Now

Performed in the UK, Finland and Canada, 'Two Of Me Now' is a poetic drama about biological and literary motherhood, as reflected in the lives and work of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.

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