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Two weeks today doors open on  #DoNotGoGentle2017  A packed program in 4 fab new venues across Swansea  Unit Nineteen ,  The Last Resort ,  Cinema&Co.   No Sign Wine Bar . Tickets available now from  www.donotgogentlefestival. co.uk Here's the details for my gig on 4 November

BOOKS & SPOKEN WORD BERKELEY SQUARE POETRY REVUE – SUSIE WILD DATE:  TUESDAY OCT 31, 2017 TIME:  08:30 PM VENUE:  THE SQUARE CLUB PRICE:  £2 Artists   Susie Wild Regular evening of poetry and music in The Square’s cocktail bar. This month’s headline act is poet  Susie Wild , author of two collections –  Better Houses  and  The Art of Contraception . With music from  Joel Gardner . ‘The poems come from raw edges of the spaces between people, and a sense of how provisional the tender things can be.’ –Philip Gross More info here...

Swansea, I 'm reading in Uplands next Friday , come along! Friday 27th October Dylan's 103rd birthday is Book Night at the Birthplace with poet Susie Wild launching her first poetry collection Better Houses which is all about tramping across the UK with humour, love and loss seeking a place to call home.  Tickets £5 (including refreshments). Joining Susie will be the Uplands urban sketcher Bill Bytheway, launching and exhibition of hs illustrations of the book Ugly Lovely - an hilarious book about Swansea by the late Ken Blakemore, and Away From The Welsh Speaking Sea a collection of poems wriiten by Hamish Wilson after a tour of the Birthplace 6.30 for 7.00pm 

PENARTH, I'm looking forward to reading at Penarth Acoustic Club this Friday , sharing the stage with some great musicians, come along!

A random selection of photos from the night by myself, Beth Greenhalgh and Christina Thatcher:

Thanks to these three lovelies for my Amazon reviews, if you've read the book and loved it (or hated it) please do pop a review up on your chosen network, it helps us Indies immensely! 5.0 out of 5 stars Susie Wild is such an exciting new poet. Each ... By louise cole on 14 October 2017 Format: Paperback | Verified Purchase Susie Wild is such an exciting new poet. Each poem offers a lucid and luminous window into the world, shifting familiar experience into the extraordinary. I can't wait for another volume! Comment | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse 5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars By L Reynolds on 14 October 2017 Format: Paperback An enticing collection of words, a real treat. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report abuse 5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars By helen r finney on 14 October 2017 Format: Paperback Beguiling from start to finish. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report...

Susie Wild describes a slow gestation, despite contraception and house moves, towards her debut poetry collection out now from  Parthian Books .  https://newwelshreview.com/article.php?id=2070

What an absolute delight it was to read at First Thursday! this was me before with my cut fringe and my ' Come to First Thursday, or else x' face on: It was fab to see so many of you there! Standing room only! Also great to have stage lights so I could pretend most of you weren't there for the reading ;) Look: at Rebecca Parfitt reading and being splendid last night too: Next up:  Join me for a literary house party at madeinroath, Cardiff on Tues 17 October celebrating the launch of both my book Better Houses AND the Diana Rooms, a new creative space in an empty terraced house in Roath. I'll be reading on the theme of home along with spe cial guests including  Katherine Stansfield ,  Mab Jones ,  Clare Potter ,  Christina Thatcher  and  Zillah Bowes . Light refreshments will be served beforehand and readings (8pm) shouldn't last more than an hour or so. We'll head to the pub afterwards. It will be splendid to see you t...

Hello my lovelies, I'm excited about the next date on my book tour, reading with two other wonderful women ( Maria Donovan  and  Rebecca Parfitt ) at First Thursday in Cardiff this... Thursday! Thanks so much to  Amy Wack  for inviting me along. If you haven't picked up a copy of Better Houses yet, I'll have some with me on the night. There's an open mic as well! See you there, or somewhere!

Susie Wild’s new collection of poems opens doors and invites the reader into a range of lives. The theme of houses comes through as Wild offers us glimpses of family life taking place in houses. People move into new houses or leave old ones, or simply transit through places as they shift from one phase of life to another. The act of buying and selling houses plays a role, as does filling them with furniture.  The first poem in the book, ‘Build the Table First’, uses the construction of furniture as a metaphor for building a new life as a couple. Wild starts with concrete imagery, saying ‘I need breakable glasses / for each re-enacted fight’ and then moves to a more stream-of-consciousness style in lines such as these, ‘I want flamingoes / in flight; a thought that looks like / broccoli, blood, so much / fake blood.’ Her shifts of language take us into new places that are both strange and familiar at the same time.  In ‘And, in the Aftermath’, the act of building flat...

Bleary eyed, on the early train to London from Cardiff, laden with books I luck out, with an old friend on board who upgrades me to First Class: 'You've a new book, you must!' and she plies me with hot tea and cold apples to energise me for the day ahead. I'd like to say it is a glamorous life being a poet and a publisher, but the reality is that I still have the bruises on the backs of my legs from wrestling my wheelie case of my books and all the other Parthian poet books across Cardiff, on and off a train, on and off the tube to the venue. A lovely venue at that, I don't think I've ever been to Some books were sold, mostly mine, but I still had a lot to lug back to Wales, and I was sad to miss the majority of the readings including one by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, who wrote me a lovely cover blurb, though I was delighted that she popped by the stall to see me.  Kate Noakes with her latest Parthian-released collection Tattoo on Crow Str...