‘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.'

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

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.

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/...

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! 😊

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.

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.

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

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

No worries at all!

Hi Marcelle, Looks great - but I'm not the Susan Richardson who's behind this podcast!

No problem at all - it's a common, and understandable, mistake!

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.

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.

Sounds lovely - but the author is a different Susan Richardson from me!

Sounds wonderful - but I'm not the Susan Richardson of this podcast.

Beautiful female Emperor moth on the windowsill this morning. #moth #nature