A Thousand Shades of Green

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 ca...

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.m...

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 worki...

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...

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...

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,...

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 b...

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. ...

In this Epic Finale Episode, Susan reads work from all fourteen Season 4 Featured Writers: Eilin De Paor, Doreen Duffy, Mary Earnshaw, Vikki C, Julie Stevens, Vitor Vicente, Patricia M. Osborne, Eileen Carney Hulme, Merril D. Smith, Robert Frede Kenter, Fidel Hogan Walsh, Hiram Larew, Christopher Butt and Lucy Heuschen.  

Lucy Heuschen is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, born in London and living in the Rheinland, Germany. Lucy's work appears in journals such as Dream Catcher, Lighthouse, Obsessed With Pipework, The High Window, Green Ink, Skylight 47, The Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears among others, and in anthologies from Black Bough, Sídhe Press, New Contexts and Yaffle. She was commended in the Poetry Society...

Originally from Corner Brook Newfoundland and Labrador, Christopher Butt is a retired member of the Canadian Forces navigating his way to a life of being a writer. His genres include Science Fiction, Fantasy, weird fiction and the occasional humorous piece.   His first collection of short stories, “In the Lair of the Kraken” was published in January 2024. He is currently working on his second coll...

Patchy Way, Larew’s sixth collection, was published in 2023 by CyberWit Press.  As founder of Poetry X Hunger, he is bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause.  www. HiramLarewPoetry.com and www. PoetryXHunger.com

Fidel’s words have been performed, published & shared wildly.  A limited edition of ‘Words on Water, nature-inspired poems produced for National Heritage week 2023 (Friends of Castle lake Catchment). Is the perfect marriage between poetry, nature & science. She has two full collections ‘Living with Love’ & ‘Time’ (‘Time’ was named in the top 10 non-fiction of 2020 by Dublin City Librar...

Robert Frede Kenter is a multiple Pushcart-nominated poet,  a BOTN nominee, a writer of experimental prose, a performer, an editor, a visual artist, a multiple grant recipient, book designer & EIC/Publisher of Ice Floe Press (www.icefloepress.net). Books include FATHER TECTONIC (forthcoming, Ethel Zine Press, 2025), & hybrid collections, EDEN (2021), & Audacity of Form (Ice Floe Press,...

Merril D. Smith lives in southern New Jersey near the Delaware River. Her work has been published widely in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, Feral, Sidhe Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Storms, Fevers of the Mind, Gleam, Humana Obscura, and Nightingale and Sparrow. She holds a Ph. D. in American history from Temple University in Philadelphia and is the author/...

Eileen Carney Hulme is inspired by the big skies and deserted beaches near her home in Findhorn in the north east of Scotland. Over 25 years as well as 4 books she has had hundreds of poems published in magazines, anthologies and ezines. She has been a winner, runner up or commended in numerous poetry competitions including The Crimson Spine Competition, The Cupid’s Arrow Competition, The Brian Ni...

Patricia M. Osborne is married with three grown-up children and six grandchildren. She was born in Liverpool but now lives in West Sussex. In February 2019, she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing via the University of Brighton. She is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. When she's not working on her own writing, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and acts as a mentor to fellow writers. ...

Vitor Vicente is a Portuguese author who has lived abroad since 2006, between Spain, Ireland, Poland and Hungary, and currently resides in Dublin.  He is the author of 12 published books, with the theme of travelling running through all his work. His latest title is the poetry collection "Harry Kernoff's Guest", which also contains reproductions of the paintings that inspired the writing.  He coll...

Julie Stevens writes poems that cover many themes, but often engages with the problems of disability. She is widely published in places such as Ink Sweat & Tears, Broken Sleep Books and The Honest Ulsterman. She has three published pamphlets: Step into the Dark (2023), Balancing Act (2021) both with The Hedgehog Poetry Press, and Quicksand ( Dreich  2020) .  www.jumpingjulespoetry.com      Twi...

Vikki C. is a London-born award-nominated writer, poet, musician and author of ‘The Art of Glass Houses’ (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and 'Where Sands Run Finest’ (DarkWinter Press, 2024).   Vikki’s poetry and fiction are published/forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, Amethyst Review, EcoTheo Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Stone Circle Review, Ballast Journal, ONE ART Poetry,...

Mary Earnshaw’s writing life began in technical journalism as a European editor covering telecommunications and electronic defense for an American company – after a history degree! She has worked in PR, both as a consultant and in-house. Mary has lived and worked in the Netherlands (with Philips), run a small academic press and she has always written freelance. She has spent lots of time in Africa...

Doreen Duffy is a Creative Writer and Tutor, with an MA in Creative Writing from DCU, where she graduated with first class honours. She is a Pushcart nominated writer who has been widely published in journals including, Poetry Ireland Review 129 by Eavan Boland, The Storms Journal Issues 1, 3, and the soon to be released Issue 4,  Glisk & Glimmer from Sídhe Press, Black Bough Poetry Christmas/...

Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin. She writes short-form lyric and narrative poems and can be found on X and Linktree as @edepaor. Alongside poetry, she works in services for people with disabilities and is currently studying towards a PhD in that field. Her collaborative pamphlet, 'In the Jitterfritz of Neon', written together with Damien B. Donnelly, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. She w...