Susan Lindsay

Bio

Author of three collections published by Doire Press, 2011, 2013 & 2018, Susan reads a selection from all three books here, at University of Missouri-St.Louis (Feb, 2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vno1MG2pSQE&t=13s . Her poems have appeared, among elsewhere, in: The Cafe Review, Oregan, USA - Gather In, in a Special Irish Edition; Bosom Pals,Ed Marie Cadden (Doire Press, 2017) an anthology entirely in aid of Breast Cancer Research in the National UniversityHospital, Galway and When They've Grown Another Me in Poetry Ireland Review, Dec 2018. https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/when-theyve-grow. In January 2018 her poems were Commended in the Gregory O'Donoghue Poetry Competition.

She has been an invited reader of her poems at local readings in Galway, Cork and Dublin and at festivals, including the Belfast Book Festival, Cuirt International Festival of Literature and Clifden Arts Festival and her poems have been read on radio.

Susan completed her degree in social science and qualified as a professional social worker in Trinity College, Dublin 1975. She was a psychotherapist, trainer, facilitator and occasional consultant to organisations for over thirty years until her retirement in 2012. Drawing together her writing with her earlier skills she has written interviews and facilitated conversations mediated by poetry. She has also published creative non-fiction.

Her workshop Having a New Conversation: About Dreaming was listed on the The Cuirt International Festival of Literature Programme (2015) and she facilitates similar workshops on a variety of themes, discussed through the medium of poetry, regularly and occasionally in local community settings.

While a founding editor of Skylight 47 Susan interviewed: then Ireland Professor of Poetry, Harry Clifton; Kay Ryan, the Pullitzer prize-winning poet and former US Poet Laureate, invited to Ireland by Dromineer Literature Festival - and Dani Gill, who talks about curating The Cuirt International Literature Festival.https://skylight47poetry.wordpress.com/previous-issues/. Susan's interview of Maeve O'Sullivan, appeared in The Honest Ulsterman February, 2018.http://humag.co/features/around-the-world-in-poetry-haiku-and-haibun

Wednesday 14 August 2024

CREATIVE WELLBEING Weekly Workshop 24th Sept-10th Dec '24

Tuesday 30 July 2024

PLEASE NOTE

My profile picture, similar to the one currently on this blog, has been purloined on Instagram to an account that spells my name alternatively followed by a number. My own instagram account with the same photo is susanahlindsay.

Monday 10 June 2024

CREATIVE WELLBEING WORKSHOP SAT 29TH JUNE, 2024

Sunday 17 March 2024

CREATIVE WELLBEING. Six Afternoon Tasters Apr - May 2024

Wednesday 27 September 2023

Launch of Crannog 59 6th October '23, with my poem Tiger Skin included,.6.30pm The Crane Bar Sea Rd., Galway.

Looking forward to revisiting The Crane Bar, Sea Road Galway on the Friday 6th October.

I have so many happy memories of attending launches there before returning to live on the east coast. So extra pleased to be reading my own poem Tiger Skin this time. The poem was inspired by the work of Pam Fleming exhibited in her exhibition in Kinvara in 2022.

I'm honoured to be included along with other contributors who I am looking forward to hearing on the night and/or to reading their work inside the covers.

Saturday 12 February 2022

UMSL-GLOBAL Reading at University of Missouri - St.Louis alongside Patrick Kehoe. Host: Eamonn Wall

Even if we couldn't actually be in St. Louis, it was a privilege to read for the University last Thursday - 10th February, 2022. The link below gives you access to a video of the webinair and to the many other great videos on the site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vno1MG2pSQE&t=13s

Friday 12 November 2021

Link: https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/in-the-blink-of-an-eye/

To what ought we attend when life changes 'in the blink of an eye?' How can we best make sense and take care - of ourselves, others and the planet in the chaos that is an implicit part of change? Inspired by an article by Jennifer O'Connell in the Irish Times, fuelled by Dan O'Brien's article in The Business Post, encouraged by a grand-parent of family therapy, the late Virginia Satir, and the words of Financial Times journalist Tim Harford in his book How the World Adds Up, this essay explores the question of when and where to best focus while keeping an essentail eye on the ball as we make the best we can of change. It is available here: https://cassandravoices.com/current-affairs/comment/in-the-blink-of-an-eye/