Susan Richardson's Creatures of the Intertidal Zone offers a marvellously different blend of passion, pathos, poetry - and penguins. Settings contrast dramatically, shifting from Scandinavia via the Antarctic to the shopping aisles in Tesco. In 'Never Forgets', elephants take a glorious revenge on humanity: 'Your door caves in:/they storm straight to your piano/and tear out its teeth/without anaesthetic./ One by one.'" – Mslexia

Richardson is very good at making the ‘strange familiar’ and excellent at expressing physicality… Through spirited play, Richardson makes us aware of the vulnerability of ecosystems under global warming, pollution and exposure to human need and adventure - Envoi

Creatures of the Intertidal Zone is… rooted in the natural world, more specifically rooted in ice and ocean and the journeys made across them by humans and animals…The most powerful poems are those that deal with ice and global warming...We need to listen to these poems, heed the warnings and learn to give nature the space it needs - New Hope International Review

Creatures of the Intertidal Zone…examines the physical and emotional processes of travelling and arrival… Richardson also writes impressively about resilient women…and there’s a satirical look at consumer culture and its environmental consequences in “Tesco Extra”- Planet