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ONE WEEK TODAY... I am hosting this poetry event at The Swansea Fringe. Do come! I'll also be kicking it off with a few poems of my own... Flying Pearls: Mari Ellis Dunning and Emily Cotterill Sunday 6 November, 5pm, COPR Bar Swansea Entry free with festival wristband or £5 on the door Mari Ellis Dunning’s first poetry collection Salacia was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award, and was followed by The Wrong Side of the Looking Glass , a pamphlet of dramatic monologues written in collaboration with Natalie Ann Holborow and her recently released second collection Pearl and Bone . She won the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award and placed second in both the Lucent Dreaming Short Story Competition and the Sylvia Plath Poetry Prize. A PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University working on a historical novel exploring accusations of witchcraft and fertility, Dunning also teaches creative writing part time. She lives on the west coast of Wales, in Llanon, with her husband, th...

  I’m looking forward to reading poems at the Tenby launch for this wonderful new anthology next month… do come along!

I'm happy to be hosting something literary here next month, more details to follow, look at all the good people involved! It must be time to book a ticket or three?

It was so lovely to be asked to be the first Broken Spine Arts'   #TheCodex guest feature which shares poems from my collections Windfalls and Better Houses . They also wrote some nice things about my writing that made me blush... 'We’re delighted to publish four poems by writer Susie Wild as our first writer on  The Codex , a new, special project with  Broken Spine Arts Collective  to showcase contemporary talent. Susie’s poetry has really distinctive appeal, with its playful, inventive phrasing and unexpected imagery, taking on almost any subject full-pelt as a conjuror of words. With her intense focus, Susie Wild can transform the everyday, the ordinary – a walk in the park, bouncing on a trampoline, a traumatic break-up, into a vibrant, often humorous and surreal poem, taking us into multiple situations, both challenging and provoking us as readers. The poems in ‘Better Houses’ and ‘Windfalls’ have a stripped-back, seamless and finished quality, reflected in he...