Susan Richardson Writer

Psst! Do you want to speak seal? Write owl? Translate fox into human? Join me & movement director Sarah Perry for an innovative online #writing #workshop that explores how diverse ways of moving can inspire & shape your more-than-human #poetry & #prose. Sat 21 March, 10-1pm GMT. bit.ly/4tRcRGM

Excited to offer another online #writing workshop with movement director Sarah Perry. This is my dream theme, exploring how #movement can inspire our #more-than-human writing, playing with sensory awareness, the flexibility of language & sound. Sat 21st March, 10-1pm. Booking info: bit.ly/4tRcRGM

Excited to be co-running, with @burnedthumb.bsky.social, a #poetry #workshop themed around indoor and outdoor #plants‬. Online, Saturday April 18th, 2-5pm GMT.

Very grateful to the wonderful @planthumanq.bsky.social for featuring my poetry and artist statement this week. #poetry #plants #houseplants

Emergence is just a week away! Join me & Aditi Kaushiva of Move to Thrive, online Sat 7th Feb 2-5pm GMT. Gentle movement practices will offer a fresh route into the #writing of #poetry & #prose, focusing on themes of emergence in the natural world & our inner landscapes.

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Thanks so much for sharing this - though I'm not the Susan Richardson who recorded it!

I made a plant-themed poetry film and am absolutely thrilled that it's been selected for a forthcoming international exhibition, curated by Artists for Plants. #poetry #writinglife #plants #poetryfilms

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

All those who wrongly believe that nature collapse might be 'sad', but won't really affect them in any way, badly need to wake up.

Nature isn't just 'nice to have'.

Planet Earth is only liveable – for *us* too – due to the regulating effects of natural ecosystems.
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That's lovely to hear - thank you - we'll certainly keep you posted!

Octubre by Laura Foley (BUGS & INSECTS Series) Octubre by Laura Foley If you saw me driving in this pelting rain, you’d never guess my errand: to buy lilies for my butterfly. He’ll savor the aroma of flowers, this cold November day, since wild …

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Excited to share news of Transformations, an online #writing & #movement workshop series, with me & Aditi Kaushiva of Move to Thrive. In each workshop, we'll explore rhythms of change in the natural world & our inner landscapes. Workshop 1, Emergence, is on Sat 7th Feb forms.gle/DE9RBkVZKR6g...

Really looking forward to collaborating with @burnedthumb.bsky.social this year!

Thrilled to have two #poems in the just-released #winter #solstice issue of the wonderful @planthumanq.bsky.social.

Edited by Neil Shepard, the journal 'explores the myriad ways writers manifest their relationship to the botanical world.'

#poetry #ecopoetry #plants #morethanhuman

So happy to have a sound piece - a blend of poetry, prose & field recordings from the Donna Nook grey seal breeding colony in Lincolnshire - in the new issue of Ambient Receiver.
I'm a big fan of this journal, which focuses on exploring 'the dynamic & complex entanglement of human & more-than-human'

Thanks so much, Sari.

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

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.

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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

‘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 Saturday 8th November 2-5pm.  A 3-hour online workshop with Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry.  Please read disclaimer to join. 

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.

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

A young fox-red labrador sits on a rocky outcrop above a bay encircled by cliffs. He is wearing a red collar and harness and panting as the day is warm. The sky is bright blue with some wispy clouds. The sea is a deeper blue colour and very calm.

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.

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.

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

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.
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So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.

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! 😊

Moving Words Saturday 31st May 10-1pm.  A 3-hour online workshop with Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry.  Please read disclaimer to join. 

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

Thank you so very much - I really appreciate your words! Very sorry to have missed your paper, and so many others, because of a long-standing work commitment - I hope it went well for you.