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Announcing Collective

Hi Lovelies, I hope you are being kind to yourselves and each other in these testing times and have managed to jump about in some autumn leaves like I have. I wanted to tell you about a free event I'm taking part in on the 1st of December at Little Man in Cardiff.  I'm looking forward to reading new poems at Collective – an evening celebrating poets who have recently published (or are due to publish) a new collection.   Entertaining, amusing, thought-provoking, and surreal, this event will feature eight fantastic poets, representing six presses, including:  MAB JONES (Indigo Dreams Publishing) MARK BLAYNEY (Parthian) TRACEY RHYS (Green Bottle Press) RHYS MILSOM (Accent Press)  SUSIE WILD (Parthian) REBECCA PARFITT (Listen Softly London) NATALIE ANN HOLBOROW (Parthian) EMILY BLEWITT (Seren) I hope to see some  many of you there.  In other poetry news I had an excellent week at Ty Newydd on the Autumn Poetry Masterclass with Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz D

Cynefin at TÅ· Newydd

Sex Change Disco: Act Two

Thanks to John Abell for the poster. More thanks to all who came along to see us at The Garden of Earthly Delights as part of Cardiff Contemporary and those who lent us props. Susie & Beth x

Poetry and Disco Dancing

Hi Lovelies, It is Sunday. I have had a wonderful morning of not having to get up and do anything or be anywhere except in bed with Handsome Man and Softie Kitten. After a lot of running around... from Waterstones London Piccadilly to a rugby club in the valleys... this past couple of weeks it has been pure bliss. There's been all sorts of exciting things happening for a plethora of Parthian launches and S4C filming and other events. On top of the publishing silly season, I also thought it would be a great idea to collaborate with Beth Greenhalgh on a new piece – Sex Change Disco – commissioned for Made in Roath festival. It turned out it was and we had a blast dancing with you all on Friday night. Although my immune system may disagree... After taking the show down yesterday and painting my hair ready for next week's performance, I have been lazily catching up on my writer admin and social media. But now to get busy and gather ALL of my po

Sex Change Disco at Made in Roath and Garden of Earthly Delights

I  have been collaborating with my dear friend and artist Beth Greenhalgh and we have two performances coming up in Cardiff this autumn. First up our show Sex Change Disco will be at Made in Roath... Sex Change Disco: Beth Greenhalgh and Susie Wild Visual Art / Performance / Spoken Word / Disco pin Pet Shop, 2 Diana St Roath Cardiff CF24 4TS Friday 14th October, 6.30 - 8.30pm Free entry, all welcome  An image is burnt to the retina. A flash of something that lingers in my memory. It is playful, holds beauty, holds power. I will not forget it. Chocolate guns melt into fondue and singing, speaking mouths burst with colour. Things are revealed upon our bodies, words spoken to stillness and, in the end, everyone will dance. At the Sex Change Disco, the menagerie are mothing about the kaleidoscope lights, dazzled – flitting here a whirligig bearded lady, flitting there a boy with a girl’s arse – and, Fanny, sitting at the bar blasting

The Mothership Happened...

Hello Lovelies! So, I'm back from my time on the Mothership artist residency in Dorset and I thought I'd tell you all about my wonderful writing week. I'm grateful to have been given the space, views and time to reflect on current / new work and future longer projects. I arrived at Bridport Station on the Saturday afternoon and artist and residency organiser Anna Best kindly collected my mobile library and I and showed us to the studio space that would be our home for the week. After tucking my books, notebooks and laptop in, I tagged along with Anna for the Force 8 evening film screening that she runs (with Hester Schofield) in a chapel in charming West Bay, Bridport . Afterwards we walked the dog around the harbourside and then went on to another little art disco event afterwards, before returning to Copse Barn so that I could turn in early to get up and on with things the next day. Returning to the workspace in the darkness I was struck by the silenc