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Susan Richardson Writer

@susanrichardson.bsky.social
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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 linktr.ee/susan_richardson_writer

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Dr Emily Elizabeth Hoyle @emilyehoyle.substack.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the edge of Cornwall I observed a sleeping seal (through binos). In Boundaries of Care and the Art Survival I discuss @susanrichardson.bsky.social's Where The Seals Sing and how I was left bereft at the human harm to our native flora and fauna. emilyehoyle.substack.com/p/boundaries...
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Boundaries of Care and the Art of Survival
For August’s Future Relics, I traverse from the absurdities of parenting in Caroline Walker’s work, to the survival of the Atlantic grey seal, and the hopeful rebellion of native weeds.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thanks so much @theplantinitiative.bsky.social for sharing info about this #poetry workshop I'm co-facilitating with @burnedthumb.bsky.social in September.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bookings now open for Leaf Support - the #plant -themed online #poetry workshop that I'm looking forward to co-facilitating with @burnedthumb.bsky.social on Saturday 19th September. Further info and booking details here: www.elizabethrimmer.com/workshops?fb...
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thrilled to have a poem in 'Catching the Light', a just-published anthology of #cricket #poetry, alongside work by Rishi Dastidar, Ted Hughes, Simon Armitage, Arundhathi Subramaniam, John Agard, Ian McMillan & so many other poets I admire.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Excited about the 2nd seasonal #writing workshop I'm offering online with Aditi Kaushiva of Move to Thrive. Gentle #movement practices will offer a new route into #poetry & #prose, focusing on abundance in the natural world & our inner landscapes. Sat 2nd May 2-5pm BST forms.gle/DE9RBkVZKR6g...
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Such a joyful piece - if you need a little morning positivity #dancesky #creativehealth #parkinsons #pride 🩰🕺🏽🏳️‍🌈
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Delighted to have two planty poems included in the Spring Equinox issue of the beautifully-curated @planthumanq.bsky.social. #poetry #plants
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Thank you so much to @katheastman.bsky.social for reviewing Where the Seals Sing to coincide with #InternationalSealDay.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Very grateful to the wonderful @planthumanq.bsky.social for featuring my poetry and artist statement this week. #poetry #plants #houseplants
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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. forms.gle/DE9RBkVZKR6g...
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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. share.google/NoVLRatfUoH5...
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Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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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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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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...
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Really looking forward to collaborating with @burnedthumb.bsky.social this year!
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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'
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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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Paperboats Writers @paperboatswriters.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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...
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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.'
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Moving Words
Saturday 8th November 2-5pm.  A 3-hour online workshop with Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry.  Please read disclaimer to join. 
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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.
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.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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.
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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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/...
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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
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So happy to have been commissioned to write this sequence of poems for the @rethinkingfable.bsky.social project.
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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! 😊
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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
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Moving Words
Saturday 31st May 10-1pm.  A 3-hour online workshop with Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry.  Please read disclaimer to join. 
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
So grateful to be part of this. And a huge thank you to Kaori Nagai for such amazing curating and organising.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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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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...
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Rethinking Fables @rethinkingfable.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Suniti Namjoshi kindly designed a fable-writing exercise for our project. Can you take up the challenge? www.rethinking-fables.org.uk/challenge-su...
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Birthday joy continued with a visit to Cors Caron, the raised bog near Tregaron, to seek out the beautiful carnivorous sundews. #plantlife #carnivorousplants #wales
Tiny red carnivorous sundew plants, their fine hairs covered in the sticky droplets with which they ensnare insects, are sprouting from a boggy bed of spaghnum moss.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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.
This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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.
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015: "Movement and Writing; A Poet's Journey with Susan Richardson" | The Shapes in Motion Podcast
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Beautiful female Emperor moth on the windowsill this morning. #moth #nature
Close-up of a brown and cream patterned moth with large eyespots on both visible wings rests on a white windowsill
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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
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Moving Words
<p>Saturday 31st May 10-1pm. &nbsp;<br>A 3-hour online workshop with&nbsp;<br>Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry. &nbsp;<br><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oi--ZyOVxb2p1dIxJNPNFJOa6AYQXdvu/vie...
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Moving Words
<p>Saturday 31st May 10-1pm. &nbsp;<br>A 3-hour online workshop with&nbsp;<br>Susan Richardson and Sarah Perry. &nbsp;<br><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oi--ZyOVxb2p1dIxJNPNFJOa6AYQXdvu/vie...
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The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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
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Living One 2025: Series Two, Encounters with the Unseen
YouTube video by The Kerulos Center
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Would you like to follow more nature writers or read some nature writing over Easter? You'll find 209 folk to follow on the starter packs & loads of content on #naturewriting feed - just use the hashtag & your posts will be added too. Pls repost 🙏 SP1: go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D# SP2: go.bsky.app/7opWxNV
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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is a wonderful thing for International Haiku Day!
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 14/04/2025
We gave two concurrent open windows right now, one for Festive Fiction and one for Coming of Age Poetry, they close on April 30th but the next one opens on May 1st, that is for #Haze #CounterculturePoetry Read about it here! thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/04/14/s...
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Submission Call for Haze: Counterculture Poetry - The Broken Spine
The Broken Spine invites submissions for Haze: Counterculture Poetry, the sixth instalment in our critically acclaimed slimline anthology series, following
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Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Grateful to be invited to be part of Ecopoetikon, a Uni of Glos-based project that showcases the work of ecopoets from around the world & is dedicated to offering 'equal voice & representation' to ecopoets from the Global North & Global South. Such a rich resource. ecopoetikon.org/poets/portfo...
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That Word Chat @thatwordchat.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
We’re going live with @drlornagibb.bsky.social on April 22 to celebrate "Rare Tongues," her powerful new book about endangered languages around the world. Register to join us: bit.ly/ThatWordChat #ThatWordChat #BookLaunch #AmReading #Linguistics
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