Susie Wild's Blog: Wildlife, page 21
June 27, 2022
Wish You Were Here: Poetry Showcase, Penarth Literary Festival 2022
June 21, 2022
GIG ALERT: Voices on the Bridge

On 7 July, Voices on the Bridge returns with a great line up including Stephanie McNicholas, Des Mannay, Stephen Payne, Ben Wildsmith, Nicholas McGaughey, Siôn Tomos Owen, Susie Wild and Rob Cullen presenting and reading.
6-8pm, Storyville Books, 8 Mill Street, Pontypridd CF37 2SN
GIG ALERT: VOICES ON THE BRIDGE
On 7 July, Voices on the Bridge returns with a great line up including Stephanie McNicholas, Des Mannay, Stephen Payne, Ben Wildsmith, Nicholas McGaughey, Siôn Tomos Owen, Susie Wild and Rob Cullen presenting and reading.
6-8pm, Storyville Books, 8 Mill Street, Pontypridd CF37 2SN
June 19, 2022
ONE WEEK TODAY: Penarth Literary Festival
The return of our favourite Poetry Showcase, hosted by Penarth-based poet Stephen Payne. Stephen will be joined by poets Abeer Ameer, John Freeman and Susie Wild and musician Ben Wildsmith for a brilliant event of poetry and music to bring an end to Penarth Literary Festival 2022. For more details, visit: ticketsource.co.uk/griffinbooks
ONE WEEK TODAY: PENARTH LITERARY FESTIVAL
The return of our favourite Poetry Showcase, hosted by Penarth-based poet Stephen Payne. Stephen will be joined by poets Abeer Ameer, John Freeman and Susie Wild and musician Ben Wildsmith for a brilliant event of poetry and music to bring an end to Penarth Literary Festival 2022. For more details, visit: ticketsource.co.uk/griffinbooks
June 1, 2022
GIG ALERT: Seren Virtual First Thursday

'This month’s Seren First Thursday is back on Zoom and we’re breaking tradition by running on the second Thursday of the month 9th June because of the Jubilee Bank Holiday.We're delighted to be joined by guest readers Paul Henry reading from ‘As If To Sing’ and Susie Wild reading from ‘Windfalls ’(Parthian). Our main readings will be followed by our usual open mic.Tickets are £2 (plus Eventbrite admin fee) available here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/352766834097.'
May 3, 2022
GIG ALERT: Celine's Tenby Salon

I’m heading down to Tenby to read in the museum on the 23rd with these sparkling performers. Come along…
April 29, 2022
GIG ALERT: MADE UP Festival Cardiff (Sunday)



April 24, 2022
Talking Translation: Nation.Cymru interview with Luca Paci

Susie Wild talks to poet, translator and editor Luca Paci, the Co-Director of the Italian Cultural Centre Wales, about the joys and difficulties of trying to represent the texture and variety of contemporary 21st century Italian poetry in one parallel text anthology.
It is an unusually sunny day in an unusual year when Luca Paci and I meet for iced coffee in the refectory before his next class at Cardiff University. The world is opening up again, but, we now know, only briefly and we are giddy with joy at being able to meet and discuss poetry and more in person rather than across screens and phone lines. It has been a period of collective grief and of personal grief, a time where crossing barriers with the shared experience of poetry feels more important than ever. After a devastating summer, Paci needs ‘to hug, to be more Italian’. We need to tame lines gone unruly in the production process, to discuss the last of the changes to the text. More than that, we need to reach out, and so we do. We begin at the beginning. With the impetus to start something, mark something, make something, in a time of too many endings…
What prompted you to put together this anthology of Italian poetry?
Everybody knows novelists like Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco and Elena Ferrante but if you ask people about Italian poetry I suspect you would struggle to find a name apart from Dante. There is very little contemporary Italian poetry published in the UK apart from the usual suspects: Montale, Ungaretti and Quasimodo who are really (male) mid 20th century authors. When it comes to the 21st century there is an awkward void. I am also passionate about poetry in translation. A language without works in translation is a diminished one and will soon wither.
April 20, 2022
GIG ALERT: Penarth Literary Festival 2022
GIG ALERT featuring myself and himself: The return of our favourite Poetry Showcase, hosted by Penarth-based poet Stephen Payne. Stephen will be joined by poets Abeer Ameer, John Freeman and Susie Wild and musician Ben Wildsmith for a brilliant event of poetry and music to bring an end to Penarth Literary Festival 2022.
Sunday 26 June7.30pm | Waterloo Tea, Penarth Tickets: £5.00BOOK NOW: ticketsource.co.uk/griffinbooksWildlife
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