- Thursday 19th April 2018, 6.30pm – launch of ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’, The Poetry Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye
- Friday 27th April 2018, 7pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ performance, British Animal Studies Network event, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Thursday 3rd May 2018, 7.30pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ performance, in association with the Marine Conservation Society, Boda Bar, Leith Walk, Edinburgh
- Friday 18th May 2018, 7 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ performance, Noa Bakehouse, Isle of Man
- Saturday 26th May 2018, 3.20pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Bristol Aquarium, part of ‘Ocean Matters’ weekend, focusing on marine plastics
- Thursday 31st May 2018, 7.30pm – guest poet, Words & Ears, Bradford on Avon
- Sunday 3rd June 2018, 8pm – guest poet, Buzzwords, Cheltenham
- Wednesday 6th June, 2pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry walk, part of the Gower Walking Festival, meet at Bracelet Bay car park
- Thursday 7th June, 1.30pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, part of Marine Transgressions conference, Create Centre, Bristol
- Friday 29th June 2018, 7.30pm – guest poet, sharing poems from ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’, Cellar Bards, Cardigan
- Sunday 1st July 2018, 1.30 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance at the Festival of Firsts, West Kirby Arts Centre, the Wirral
- Tuesday 3rd July 2018, 7.30pm – guest poet, The Poetry Lounge, Ludlow
- Saturday 14th July 2018, 3pm – guest poet, Spoken Word Saturday, Ffwrnes Theatre, Llanelli
- Sunday 29th July 2018, 3pm – guest poet, Mid Wales Arts Centre, Caersws
- Friday 10th August 2018, 7.30pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Tywi Boat Club, Llansteffan
- Friday 17th August 2018, 3pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Ocean Lab, Fishguard Bay, part of a Year of the Sea event
- Sunday 9th September 2018, 2pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Visitor Centre, RSPB Saltholme, Stockton-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
- Wednesday 12th September 2018, 7pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Living Seas Centre, Flamborough Head, Yorkshire
- Sunday 16th September, 3pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, plus exhibition of images by Pat Gregory, Waterloo Tea, Penylan, Cardiff
- Thursday 27th September 2018, 6pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, National Marine Biological Library, Marine Biological Association, Plymouth
- Friday 28th September 2018, 7.30pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, the Alice Cross Centre, Teignmouth
- Wednesday 3rd October 2018, 7.15pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Chichester Natural History Society
- Thursday 18th October 2018, 5.45 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, an Open Space event, Cardiff Central Library Hub, alongside Ailbhe Darcy
- Friday 19th October 2018, 7.30 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Women’s Business Autumn Arts Event, Magor, Monmouthshire
- Friday 2nd November 2018, 7.30 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Tenby & District Arts Club, St Johns Church Hall, Tenby
- Wednesday 7th November 2018, 7.45 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, the Studio, Aberystwyth Arts Centre
- Thursday 22nd November 2018, 7.30pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, alongside folk singer Lowri Evans, Bluestone Brewery, Cilgwyn, Pembrokeshire
- Thursday 29th November, 8pm – guest poet, Poetry Wivenhoe, British Legion, Wivenhoe Quay, Essex
- Sunday 9th December 2018, 2pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Cley Marshes Reserve
- Tuesday 12th February 2019, 7pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, Wildlife Trust event, Swansea University
- Friday 1st March 2019, 7.30pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, The Art House, Southampton
- Friday 26th April 2019, time tbc – poetry performance, part of British Animal Studies Network residency, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- Wednesday 8th May 2019 – guest poet, Speakin’ Weird spoken word night, Aberdeen
- Sunday 9th June 2019, 6.30 pm – ‘Words the Turtle Taught Me’ poetry performance, The Jolly Sailor, Canterbury
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- Susan’s thrilled to reveal that her fourth collection of poetry, Words the Turtle Taught Me, published by Cinnamon Press in 2018, has just been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award.
- Described by Philip Hoare as ‘vital, glorious, salutary’, the collection grew out of her recent residency with the Marine Conservation Society.
- Throughout 2018, Susan took her multi-media Words the Turtle Taught Me poetry show to venues around the coast of the UK. She performed in arts centres and beach cafés, at universities and Wildlife Trust Visitor Centres from Aberystwyth to Edinburgh, from Cornwall to the Isle of Man. The show’s continuing to tour in 2019.
- In addition to her recent MCS residency, Susan is also currently poet-in-residence with both the global animal welfare initiative World Animal Day and the British Animal Studies Network.
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