For more detailed information about Susan's recent and current activities, please visit her blog.
Polar Poets
Together with fellow writer Siobhan Logan, Susan has just launched Polar Poets, a project that uses poetry, storytelling and multi-media performance to evoke the unique appeal of one of the planet's last great wildernesses. Having experienced this landscape first-hand, Susan and Siobhan explore the heritage of the Arctic from indigenous peoples and Viking women to European explorers. They also highlight the fragility of this landscape at a time of climate change. The Polar Poets offer performances, talks and workshops for both adults and children on all of these themes.
A Wilder Vein
A piece of literary non-fiction by Susan has just been published in A Wilder Vein (Two Ravens Press). Edited by Linda Cracknell and with a foreword by Robert Macfarlane, A Wilder Vein is 'an anthology...that focuses on the relationship between people and the wild places of Britain and Ireland. This is writing which animates a connection between humanity and the natural world, articulating discoveries and new ways of seeing – writing which is, above all, a meditation on who we are as people in a still-wild world.'
In the Telling
In the Telling, an international anthology of narrative poetry which Susan co-edited with Gail Ashton for Cinnamon Press, has also recently been published. It contains work from emerging and established poets from the UK, USA, mainland Europe and Asia. If you'd like to purchase a copy (£7.99 UK delivery, £8.99 elsewhere), please visit the Cinnamon Press anthologies page and scroll down until you reach In the Telling.
TriskeleWrites
Together with two fellow writers and tutors, Gail Ashton and Jan Fortune-Wood, Susan recently set up TriskeleWrites to offer manuscript appraisals, mentoring services, residential writing courses and specialist packages for those who want to self-publish their work. Vist the TriskeleWrites website for more information.