Wildlife

I'm the featured artist in the new issue of Time to stand and stop and stare   this week, a place where artists and makers share their experience of isolation and creativity during the Coronavirus lockdown 2020: Hello and welcome to issue 9! Something a little different today as we’re joined by the very talented Cardiff writer Susie Wildsmith, hope you enjoy! Locked in to Lockdown with Susie Wild (AKA Susie Wildsmith) Are you ready? Here goes... Can you tell us a little about your creative practice - what attracted you to this particular art form; when and how did you begin? I couldn’t not write poetry. I have written it since I was a little girl, secretly, and then less secretly, and less secretly again as I have grown. I was rarely bored as I learnt poems off by heart and recited them in my head, I wish I could learn words quite so quickly now. My first collections of poetry and short stories concern themselves with relationships, human quirks and oddness, the strange and the ma

I'm chuffed to have been shortlisted for this! ' It’s Pick of the Month time and the shortlist for August 2020 has a definite family feel about it. Are you drawn to either   John Grey   or   Sam Hickford   as they try to make connections in ‘To a Father I Never Knew’ and ‘Familiar Tissue’, or appreciate, and identify with,   Sunyi Dean  transforming into her mother in ‘Dust’. Is it   Susie Wild   with her husband ‘Nude, smoking, in the dawn doorway’ that captivates or   Frank Dullaghan , his sister singing him to sleep (past, present and future merging) in ‘How to Escape and Other Theories’, deserving your interest? Or does   Lucy Atkinson  pull at every parental instinct as you watch Persephone emerge from Winter in ‘Sunspot’?' 'All six of the shortlist have been chosen by Helen or Kate or received the most attention on social media.' Place your vote now!