In this Special Episode, Susan reads 14 poems from the 14 writers featured in, The Whiskey Tree Untamed Love Volume 2, published by The Broken Spine: George Sandifer-Smith, Perry Gasteiger, Robert Frede Kenter, Lucy Heuschen, Barney Ashton Bullock, Damien B. Donnelly, Briony Collins, Jen Feroze, Mark Antony Owen, Bex Hainsworth, Romina Ramos, James McConachie, Lesley Curwen and Robert Edge. You can find more on https://thebrokenspine.co.uk  and buy your own copy on Amazon. 

In this 1st Birthday Celebration of “Feasting Upon the Bones”, the debut short story collection from Suzanne Craig-Whytock, Susan reads the story, “Perfect Food”.  

In this finale episode, Susan reads one poem from each of the season’s six featured writers, Marcelle Newbold, Derek Coyle, Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Paul Short, Sinead McGuigan and Mike Bove,  in response to the theme of water.  

Mike Bove is the author of four books of poetry, most recently EYE. His poems have appeared in Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Tar River Poetry, Rust & Moth, and others. He served as a 2024 Writer-in-Residence at Acadia National Park and is Editor of Hole in the Head Review, a biannual online poetry journal. Mike lives with his family in Portland, Maine where he was born and raised. www.mikebove.com

Sinead McGuigan, a poet and psychology graduate from University College Dublin, writes poetry that explores the human condition and deepest emotions connected to experience.  Sinead has three collections, “A Gift and a Curse” , "Unbound” and “My Muse of Restless Nights “.. Sinead has been widely published in many magazines and collaborated on projects for women's rights.  Sinead is currently working on her fourth collection. 

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Paul Short is a poet from Newcastle upon Tyne, currently working on his first pamphlet. His main influences are the heritage of the North East and his working-class background. 

Paul’s poetry has been published in anthologies from presses including Black Bough Poetry, Broken Spine Arts and Hedgehog Poetry. He has appeared in journals including Dust Poetry Magazine, The Starbeck Orion, Flight of The Dragonfly, Dark Poets Club and several more.

Paul also writes ‘The Book Bag’, a weekly showcase of a poetry pamphlet or collection to uplift writers in the poetry community.

Website: https://paulwritespoems.com 

Bluesky: @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Australian artist and poet of South Indian heritage. Her poetry has been nominated for several prizes, including the Pushcart Prize, the Dai Fry Award for Mystical Poetry, the Best of the Net, and the Glass House poetry awards. She won the 66th Moon Prize awarded by Writing in a Woman’s Voice Journal. She is the author of Patchwork Fugue (Atomic Bohemian Press UK),  A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys (winner of The Little Black Book Competition, Hedgehog Poetry Press UK), and three digital micro-chaps books published by Origami Poems Project (US). She lives and works in Lindfield, on traditional Gammeragal land.  Find her on X @oormilaprahlad and www.instagram.com/oormila_paintings

Derek Coyle’s Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow (2019) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong 2020 award for best first collection. Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster (2024) is published in a dual language edition in Tranas, Sweden.  His poems have appeared in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, The High Window and The Stony Thursday Book. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick’s, Ireland.

Marcelle Newbold is Bridport Prize shortlisted, Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominated, runner-up in the Walk.Listen.Create writing competition, and winner of the Poetry in the Arcades competition, Marcelle's poems have been published in online and print magazines including Propel, Ink Sweat & Tears, Atrium, Black Iris, iamb, and Fly on the Wall Press, and in recent print anthologies by Black Bough Poetry, Maytree Press, Wild Pressed Books, Icefloe Press, Broken Spine, and Indigo Dreams.  Her hybrid art/poem mini-pamphlet 'City Companions' in collaboration with Karen Pierce-Gonzalez published by Hedgehog Press is forthcoming in 2025.

Marcelle lives in Cardiff, Wales where she practiced as an architect, and now tutors at the Welsh School of Architecture and works in community engagement. Her poem 'Arcade hopping' is on permanent display in Cardiff City Centre.

This episode is a celebration of “Smatterings of Cerulean”, a collection of short poems by our host, Susan Richardson, accompanied by the photographs of Ken Whytock, published by Dark Winter Press.  Susan is joined on this episode by a few of her friends and favourite writers, Suzanne Craig-Whytock, Lawrence Moore, Doreen Duffy, Peter Lilly, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Mo Schoenfeld and Steve Denehan.  You can buy “Smatterings of Cerulean” links below. 

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