Born and raised in Liverpool, Sue made her way south through England before settling on the banks of a small river near the Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland. After a career spanning education and psychotherapy, she is still searching for just the right words and is happy to have found a group of people engaged in that same search.  Her work has been published in journals, anthologies and magazines. It can be found on the YouTube channels of The Bangor Literary Journal, Issue 11 and in the Community Arts Partnership anthologies, Heartland (2021) and Threshold (2022) where her poems, The Goldfinch and  a naming of parts, were longlisted for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. In 2023 she won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing for her poem, Four Stories About (The Same) Crows.

Unmoored

The ridges here recall the times when

life was only single-celled or shelled,

before we found our way to land.

Sea cliffs rise; seem pathed and paved,

as shadows shape a city in white stone.

Wild Sea Pink masquerades as silk,

a pennant laid against the green,

as though to welcome us back home.

A splash of sun. The tableau fades.

A taste of ice drifts from the north,

where islands seem like us, unmoored,

beneath the grey unfathomed skies.

We float on Kraken’s deepest seas,

and dare to dream he will not wake