Editor

As an editor, Susan has most recently been working on In the Telling, an international anthology of narrative poetry, published by Cinnamon Press in June 2009. When she and her co-editor, Gail Ashton, put out the call for submissions, they hoped to be surprised and intrigued by new versions of traditional folk and fairy tales, to be shaken and stirred by contemporary myths and urban stories, to listen to the voices of people past and present, as well as to the voices of places, landscapes and artefacts.

They weren’t disappointed. Over four thousand poems arrived from all parts of the UK, the USA, Australia, Canada, India, Bangladesh, Italy, France…There were comic poems, tales of personal and global disaster, poems of love between all kinds of different beings, from Glaswegian teenagers to green peas! Image after image was spun, woven, unbuckled, unwrapped.

The selection process was long and challenging, but both Susan and Gail are thrilled with the resulting collection!  If you'd like to purchase a copy, please visit the Cinnamon Press anthology page and scroll down until you reach In the Telling.

Reviewer

Susan is one of the resident reviewers for Envoi poetry journal, which appears three times each year. Her work has also been published in The Literary Review.