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Susie Wilson
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Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com
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Did I just get so excited testing a hydrophone in the sink I nearly let it flow over? Will I go stick it in the frog bucket now? #hydrology #water #river #riverwriting #placewriting #naturewriting #poetry #whatisthethythmofariver #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice
July 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Yes, he is! Here’s his latest re-arrangement of his little hot bod. Think maybe the metal of my laptop is cooling!
July 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Neither Jack nor Ted Hughes impressed by the heatwave ☀️🥵. Sporting similar glares. #schnauzer #schnauzermuse #tedhughes #heatwave
Small black mini schnauzer lies in bed on floor with one leg sticking out, glaring. Background is a bookcase with Ted Hughe’s glowering face also glaring out from the spine of a book.
July 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Good morning bee on teasel. #bees #garden #joy
July 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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Amid the schnauzer barking, badgers chittering! #schnauzers #badgers
July 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Winscar Reservoir. Next ‘step’ up into the watershed source of the Don. What is the rhythm of a place? How can we write it/with/thro it? #river #riverwriting #naturewriting #placewriting #poetry #fieldtrip #phenomenology #dowhatyouvalue #dowhatyoucan #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice #donriver #don
Curved stone wall of a dam built in segments, with a green metal sloping wall in long sections going down to dark blue water with white wind and wave lines on it, white clouds low down and blue sky. It looks still and windilly dynamic at once.
July 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Totally treacle source of the Don (well, where it’s first named on the map). Is it possible to write about this without comparison? Without imposing? #river #riverwriting #fieldtrip #poetry #naturewriting #placewriting #phenomenology #dowhatyouvalue #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice #donriver #don
Brownish orange river water in a small stream falling over a step about two feet wide in a cascade of whitish spills.
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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10 secs of 2 views of ‘the’ source of The Don. Or is it 3? #riverwriting #longpoems #dislocatingtheieye #water #watersheds #hydrology #phenomenology #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice #fieldtrip
July 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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And people say cats get in the way of writing! #schnauzermuse #schnauzerz #schnauzergang
Small black pointy eared dog (looking a lot like a rabbit) sitting bang in the middle of a person’s lap. Wearing a blue & grey checked dressing gown. The person that is, not the dog. Same little black dog sitting up staring at camera with model look, blond woman with glasses on and sticky uppy hair underneath & behind him.
May 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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One of these is having more luck finding their breakfast.
April 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Yes, the rabbits are out of the hat 🐇 ! Skin the Rabbit, a feral mini-chapbook about looking, beautifully designed & hand-printed by Kym Deyne at The Braag will be launching with me @lyrafest.com 5pm today and at the Free Verse Fair - limited edition stuff! Come/go have a 👀 👋 #poetrybluesky #bluesky
April 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Anyone know what this is? On my lavender. #moths #butterflies #insects #cocoon #naturewriting
Black and gold striped cocoon or grub body hanging down off a dry twig of lavender plant. Green shoots of lavender around it.
April 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Fan mail for Jack in the post! He is entirely nonchalant about it.

#schnauzer #schnauzergang #schnauzerfans
Small black schnauzer dog asleep on a red rug on a blue bed, with a white card showing a similar dog held in front of him and a little black metal sculpture of a mini schnauzer in the palm of the person’s hand. None of this takes away from the criminally horrible rug below.
April 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Me up a hill, a long time ago. Looking down at a loch that had just appeared when the mist blew away, I remember. #cairngorms #hillwalkingscotland #hills #walking #time
Small girl with blond hair in a blue Caghoul looking across at something out of site. She’s sitting on the side of a hill top which is greenish greyish brown with a white patch of snow behind her head. She’s pink in the face from wind & cold.
April 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Who are you calling an April Fool, Mum?

Max is not impressed.

But that’s better ears & an eye sorted. Soon he’ll be able to see and hear all the evil.

#coneofshame #schnauzers #schnauzergang #arseybarkholes #aprilfool
King of the Schnauzers, in a crown, which is a white plastic cone round his head. Grey little dog looking down at decking.
April 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Schnauzer Schniffari Olympics.

How To Train Your Schnauzer.

The ladder is extra.

(knackering out Jack b4 bro Max gets home from vet nasties)

#maxandjack #arseybarkholes #schnauzerschool #schnauzer #schnauzerworld #schnauzergang #scentwork #scentworktraining
Lots of plant pots set out in groups over garden decking & grass. Big ladder at the side. Small black superstar mini-schnauzer dog with sticky up ears sniffing grey pots on green grass. Aforementioned little black mini schnauzer dog looking through a glass door, sitting waiting his turn.
March 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Would just like to report belatedly that Mack this morning described our eldest as an arsey barkhole.

Let this not go unrecorded & uncelebrated.

#schnauzer #schnauzergang #dogsofBluesky
Lovely little grey mini schnauzer peacefully eating his dinner out of a white bowl with a red star on a wooden floor. The floor is a disgrace but the dog is actually quite good.
March 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Here be skylarks.

And some lapwings, a curlew, grouse.

Drive there on my own for the first time in two years.

Without fatigue, I’d get the bus. But without brain metastases, I can drive. Freedom.

#skylarks #birds #birdwatching #birding
Scrubby yellowish grass field (sward) with low brown hill curving just at the horizon in and out of view. White clouds in clumps with blue sky above. The clumps of grass & clouds appear to mirror each other. There are no skylarks actually visible.
March 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Giant panther found loose in Sheffield!!!

No, it’s a Jack-in-the-pots!

#schnauzer #schnauzergang #schauzers #dogsofBluesky
Massive looking black animal with cat like tail and indistinct ears running towards camera over grass. Oh no, it’s a small schnauzer dog. Pick of aforementioned black mini schnauzer dog now zoomed out to show him even mini-er than the grey mini schnauzer standing next to him looking unimpressed.
March 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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In the face of people saying starry things about me recently, Mack’s keeping me grounded. Passed this mug my way this morning. #knowthyself #fool
A white mug with black writing on it: ‘The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.’ Held in a person’s left hand up to a window with a green plant behind.
March 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Thanks to Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus for commissioning City of Sound for the Stella Jockel Young Composers’ Competition. I’ll be reading it at the cathedral next Sunday. In the excellent company of texts by Katharine Towers & Fiona Sampson. #poetry #singing #composition ##choralmusic #sheffield
March 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Off to try to find a thalweg at Spey Bay. Using this wonderful book. #rivers #readingwater #writingwater #naturewriting
February 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Turns out I don’t know how to teach without piles & post-its. Ready for a little talk about metaphor at Sheffield Hallam tonight. Old Post Office, 6.30pm, free & open to all. Also reading from Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed #poetry #metaphor #poetrybluesky #bookSky
February 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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OMG. Just pawed thro Adrienne Rich’s A Human Eye 4 times for a quote re. metaphor which has soaked into my thinking but I can’t ever quite remember… only to find it in What Is Found There: Notebooks on Politics & Poetry-
‘Resemblance in difference’ = ‘Hope for a humane civil life.’ #metaphor #poetry
Black and white photo of a human eye open staring up. Above black on white text ‘A Human Eye: Essays on Art and Society’ by Adrienne Rich. This is not the right book I was looking for.
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Thank you!!! I am still possibly in a sulk, what with the backlog of grooming I am having to do now… but IT is OFF. You can join me tomorrow morning for On The Sofa With Jack’s episode of ‘Dogs Shouldn’t Wear Collars’.
Much relieved little black dog curled up on a blue duvet, wearing a grey collar with stars on. His nasty mother’s leg is nearby. He will not lie on it yet as she made him wear a collar.
February 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM