Susan Richardson Writer
@susanrichardson.bsky.social
Nature writer & poet. Latest book 'Where the Seals Sing' (William Collins). 4th poetry collection shortlisted Ted Hughes Award. Lives on a cliff in the far west of Wales, making kin with the more-than-human world https://linktr.ee/susan_richardson_writer
So delighted to have a poem, 'Sundew Rescue', in the beautiful new issue of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social, themed around Nature's Voice and sensitively edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz. #poetry #ecopoetry
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So delighted to have a poem, 'Sundew Rescue', in the beautiful new issue of @paperboatswriters.bsky.social, themed around Nature's Voice and sensitively edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz. #poetry #ecopoetry
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We are delighted to publish Issue 6 of Paperboats Zine, Nature's Voice.
Edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz and featuring a host of wonderful writers and poets.
Brew yourself a cuppa and settle down for an inspiring and uplifting read.
paperboats.org/category/zin...
Edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz and featuring a host of wonderful writers and poets.
Brew yourself a cuppa and settle down for an inspiring and uplifting read.
paperboats.org/category/zin...
November 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We are delighted to publish Issue 6 of Paperboats Zine, Nature's Voice.
Edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz and featuring a host of wonderful writers and poets.
Brew yourself a cuppa and settle down for an inspiring and uplifting read.
paperboats.org/category/zin...
Edited by @alexnye.bsky.social and Ian Grosz and featuring a host of wonderful writers and poets.
Brew yourself a cuppa and settle down for an inspiring and uplifting read.
paperboats.org/category/zin...
Just a few places left! Join me & movement director Sarah Perry for Moving Words, our next online writing & movement workshop, on Nov 8th. A lovely group of writers of both poetry & prose, theatre makers & dancers will be gathering. shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/movingwords
October 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Just a few places left! Join me & movement director Sarah Perry for Moving Words, our next online writing & movement workshop, on Nov 8th. A lovely group of writers of both poetry & prose, theatre makers & dancers will be gathering. shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/movingwords
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‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
Moving Words returns in November! Movement director Sarah Perry & I are running another writing & movement workshop, exploring how diverse ways of moving can inspire, & transform both poetry and prose. According to a previous participant, 'The combination of Sarah and Susan worked like magic.'
Moving Words
Saturday 8th November 2-5pm. A 3-hour online workshop with Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry. Please read disclaimer to join.
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Moving Words returns in November! Movement director Sarah Perry & I are running another writing & movement workshop, exploring how diverse ways of moving can inspire, & transform both poetry and prose. According to a previous participant, 'The combination of Sarah and Susan worked like magic.'
Such a pleasure to be guest reader in Llansteffan, at an event exploring how we might deepen our connection with the more-than-human world. I shared prose from Where the Seals Sing, poetry from Words the Turtle Taught Me & there was stimulating conversation, art by Romola Parish & a lively open mic.
August 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Such a pleasure to be guest reader in Llansteffan, at an event exploring how we might deepen our connection with the more-than-human world. I shared prose from Where the Seals Sing, poetry from Words the Turtle Taught Me & there was stimulating conversation, art by Romola Parish & a lively open mic.
Looking forward to sharing prose from Where the Seals Sing and poetry from Words the Turtle Taught Me at this event in Llansteffan tonight, focusing on how we might expand and deepen our relationship with the more-than-human world. #poetry #morethanhuman #creativenonfiction #naturememoir
August 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Looking forward to sharing prose from Where the Seals Sing and poetry from Words the Turtle Taught Me at this event in Llansteffan tonight, focusing on how we might expand and deepen our relationship with the more-than-human world. #poetry #morethanhuman #creativenonfiction #naturememoir
Overlooking Aber Felin, the bay that's at the heart of my nature memoir, 'Where the Seals Sing'. Acer and I watched - and listened to the howls of - a small haul-out of pregnant cow seals. Not long now till the pupping season gets underway.
July 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Overlooking Aber Felin, the bay that's at the heart of my nature memoir, 'Where the Seals Sing'. Acer and I watched - and listened to the howls of - a small haul-out of pregnant cow seals. Not long now till the pupping season gets underway.
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BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
July 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK!
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.
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Like the old-growth coastal redwoods that host whole other ecosystems in their spires, these extraordinary Australian stick insects reveal not only the richness and mystery of mature forest canopies but how vital their protection is for countless forms of life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia
The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Like the old-growth coastal redwoods that host whole other ecosystems in their spires, these extraordinary Australian stick insects reveal not only the richness and mystery of mature forest canopies but how vital their protection is for countless forms of life.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.
Check out Susan Richardson's powerful poem sequence ‘The Sack and the Selki’e — a moving exploration of how plastic pollution is affecting seals. Huge thanks again to Susan for writing this amazing piece for the ‘Rethinking Fables’ project. @susanrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/vQ1wfvlUcWU
Susan Richardson, The Sack and the Selkie
YouTube video by Kaori Nagai
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June 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.
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I am delighted to announce that the recording of Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh's keynote speeches at our final conference are now available from this site: www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/final-confer...
Please have a look and enjoy! 😊
Please have a look and enjoy! 😊
June 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I am delighted to announce that the recording of Profs Vinciane Despret and Susan McHugh's keynote speeches at our final conference are now available from this site: www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/final-confer...
Please have a look and enjoy! 😊
Please have a look and enjoy! 😊
So excited about the Moving Words workshop I'm co-facilitating with movement director Sarah Perry tomorrow! We've created a session to encourage exploration of how different movements can shape & transform poetry, scripts & prose.
Last-minute bookings - shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words
Last-minute bookings - shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words
Moving Words
Saturday 31st May 10-1pm. A 3-hour online workshop with Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry. Please read disclaimer to join.
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
So excited about the Moving Words workshop I'm co-facilitating with movement director Sarah Perry tomorrow! We've created a session to encourage exploration of how different movements can shape & transform poetry, scripts & prose.
Last-minute bookings - shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words
Last-minute bookings - shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words
So grateful to be part of this. And a huge thank you to Kaori Nagai for such amazing curating and organising.
Just wrapped 3 incredible days at the Rethinking Fables final conference! Huge thanks to our amazing speakers, attendees & performers who made this truly unforgettable. So many fabulous things happened during this conference 😊
May 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
So grateful to be part of this. And a huge thank you to Kaori Nagai for such amazing curating and organising.
Much looking forward to sharing my commissioned sequence of eco-fable-themed poems at the final Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis conference later. It's been so inspiring to be involved in this University of Kent-based project.
May 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Much looking forward to sharing my commissioned sequence of eco-fable-themed poems at the final Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis conference later. It's been so inspiring to be involved in this University of Kent-based project.
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The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference is happening now! Please join us if you can. Also please check out the online resources/exhibition (just launched) www.rethinking-fables.org.uk
Rethinking Fables Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis
Welcome to Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis (2023-2025), an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded networking project, led by Dr. Kaori Nagai, Senior Lecturer in Victor...
www.rethinking-fables.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The 'Rethinking Fables' final conference is happening now! Please join us if you can. Also please check out the online resources/exhibition (just launched) www.rethinking-fables.org.uk
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Suniti Namjoshi kindly designed a fable-writing exercise for our project. Can you take up the challenge? www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/challenge-su...
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Suniti Namjoshi kindly designed a fable-writing exercise for our project. Can you take up the challenge? www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/challenge-su...
Birthday joy continued with a visit to Cors Caron, the raised bog near Tregaron, to seek out the beautiful carnivorous sundews. #plantlife #carnivorousplants #wales
May 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Birthday joy continued with a visit to Cors Caron, the raised bog near Tregaron, to seek out the beautiful carnivorous sundews. #plantlife #carnivorousplants #wales
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Episode 15 of the Shapes in Motion podcast, is now live! 'Sarah Perry speaks with writer and poet Susan Richardson about the profound relationship between writing and movement. They explore how the body and the written word intertwine...' Such a joy to be interviewed and talk about this theme.
015: "Movement and Writing; A Poet's Journey with Susan Richardson" | The Shapes in Motion Podcast
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May 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Episode 15 of the Shapes in Motion podcast, is now live! 'Sarah Perry speaks with writer and poet Susan Richardson about the profound relationship between writing and movement. They explore how the body and the written word intertwine...' Such a joy to be interviewed and talk about this theme.
April 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Big thanks to those who've booked for Moving Words, the writing-inspired-by-movement workshop I'm co-running in May. Places are filling quickly so if you'd like to come, please consider signing up soon. A lovely group is forming & Sarah & I are very excited! shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words
Moving Words
<p>Saturday 31st May 10-1pm. <br>A 3-hour online workshop with <br>Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry. <br><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oi--ZyOVxb2p1dIxJNPNFJOa6AYQXdvu/vie...
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Big thanks to those who've booked for Moving Words, the writing-inspired-by-movement workshop I'm co-running in May. Places are filling quickly so if you'd like to come, please consider signing up soon. A lovely group is forming & Sarah & I are very excited! shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words
So excited to be co-facilitating 'Moving Words', an online writing workshop with a difference! I'll be working alongside the brilliant movement director Sarah Perry of Shapes in Motion. Saturday 31st May, 10 am - 1pm. #writingcommunity
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words...
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words...
Moving Words
<p>Saturday 31st May 10-1pm. <br>A 3-hour online workshop with <br>Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry. <br><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oi--ZyOVxb2p1dIxJNPNFJOa6AYQXdvu/vie...
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
So excited to be co-facilitating 'Moving Words', an online writing workshop with a difference! I'll be working alongside the brilliant movement director Sarah Perry of Shapes in Motion. Saturday 31st May, 10 am - 1pm. #writingcommunity
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words...
shapesinmotion.myflodesk.com/moving-words...
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The new free Living One webinar series "Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment" from the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence will run weekly for 6 wks between May 9 - Jun 13, 2025. See this short preview video to learn more (more details in text below video)! youtu.be/vLp7zdQBtUE
Living One 2025: Series Two, Encounters with the Unseen
YouTube video by The Kerulos Center
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April 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The new free Living One webinar series "Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment" from the Kerulos Center for Nonviolence will run weekly for 6 wks between May 9 - Jun 13, 2025. See this short preview video to learn more (more details in text below video)! youtu.be/vLp7zdQBtUE