For more detailed information about Susan's recent and current activities, please visit her blog.
Where the Air is Rarefied
Susan's latest poetry collection, Where the Air is Rarefied, a collaboration with printmaker Pat Gregory that explores environmental and mythological themes relating to theme of 'the North', has just been published by Cinnamon Press and launched at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff Bay. If you are interested in purchasing a copy, you may do so here, while if you would like to book Susan to read/perform the work from her new collection, please feel free to contact her.
Susan returns to the Arctic
Susan recently received the exciting news that she has been awarded a grant from the Gino Watkins Memorial Fund, under the joint trusteeship of the University of Cambridge and the Royal Geographical Society, that will enable her to return to the Arctic this year. She will travel to the Svalbard archipelago in Arctic Norway in order to pursue research relating to her brand-new writing and performance project (working title Willing the Dragonfly).
Polar Poets
Together with fellow writer Siobhan Logan, Susan recently 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, including a one-hour show, Arctic-ulate, talks and workshops for both adults and children on all of these themes.
A Wilder Vein
A piece of literary non-fiction by Susan was recently 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.'