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Happy National Poetry Day Poets & Poetry Lovers!

 This year's theme is Choice, and readers I choose you. Here are some excerpts of poems fitting the theme from my new collection Windfalls on sale or on order now from all your favourite places to buy books... Buy Windfalls now from Parthian

Autumn Poetry Gigs

Hiya Lovelies! I hope you are adjusting to the change in season and have been reading poetry and buying poetry books  and supporting lots of indie bookshops and poetry publishers for today's National Poetry Day and Saturday's Bookshop Day! I have been adding gigs to the calendar and layers to my wardrobe in preparation for taking Windfalls out of the Zoom sphere and back to some in person events and I am very much looking forward to sharing the new poems with you in my favourite way... Here are some dates for your diary, on and offline: Saturday 9 October - 12.30 - 1.30pm: Knighton Festival Join us for a free festival session online at Knighton Festival between 12.30 and 1pm with poet Susie Wild sharing from her new collection Windfalls first followed by a short Q&A and then novelist Gary Raymond talking about his new novel Angels of Cairo and answering questions from 1 - 1.30 pm. Book your free tickets: https://www.knightoncommunitycentre.com/tickets.html Saturday 16 Oc

gwales.com Review of Windfalls: 'substantial, touching, entertaining and very fresh'

This latest collection by Susie Wild is substantial, touching, entertaining and very fresh; it is also a handsome production. Susie Wild is known for her live readings and the poems have an immediacy and accessibility which suggest this.  The collection is in two parts: ‘The Carnivore Boyfriends’ and ‘Windfalls’. While the title poem of the first section is generally humorous, the last line suggests a history of bad experiences which is certainly born out in some of the later poems. Some are tender remembrances of early days, like ‘Brockley Cross’ or Wild’s hymn to her childhood bicycles, but ‘This Is Why We Can’t’ and ‘Traumatic Language’ evoke a seriously over-controlling partner, and ‘Newly Single’ the threat of rape or worse. The indirect language of this poem captures the small steps, doubts and excuses which end with ‘[p]erhaps you should / have pressed charges. Spoken to someone. / But you didn’t.’  There are some brilliant portraits here of men, like ‘Burton’s Boy’ (‘a fuck