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.  Further details  Instagram & Facebook  @sineadmcgpoetry  linkt.ree/sineadmcgpoetry 

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 X: @paulwritespoems Threads/FB: paulwritespoems

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.  Amazon IE - https://tinyurl.com/y7uzsmc8 Amazon US - https://tinyurl.com/uhx6t2hb Amazon UK - https://tinyurl.com/8vmpme82 Amazon CA - https://tinyurl.com/ytzf3rf8

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's Stanza Competition 2024 and shortlisted for Ink Sweat And Tears’ “Pick of the Month” for October 2024. Lucy is part of Wave 2 of The Broken Spine’s “Untamed” anthology series. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks: We Wear The Crown (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2022) and Loggerheads (The Broken Spine, 2024). A Thousand Shades of Green special episode featuring Loggerheads BlueSky: @PetiteCreature1.bsky.social Website: http://www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

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 collection. Christopher lives in St. Catharines with his wife, Angela. You can find his work on his Wattpad page under the name “Buttster” and on Darkwinterlit.ca

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 Libraries). Her short stories can be found in ‘Thrice Remembered – An Anthology of Cavan Writings’. Collaborations that Inspire is a series of Fidel’s poems paired with various artists.

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, 2019). Robert’s in many anthologies incl. Shine #1 (2024 publ. by Samantha Terrell), Kireji /Cutting Words (Nun Prophet Press, 2024), After Hours: Beat Culture Made New (Broken Spine Press, 2024).  The Book of Penteract (Penteract Press, 2022), Seeing in Tongues (Steel Incisors, 2023), Reformatting the Pain Scale (Olney Books, 2023), Glisk and Glimmer (Sidhe Press, 2023), Deep Time #1 (Black Bough Press, 2021),  & numerous Fevers Of The Mind anthologies incl.: The Chelsea Underground (2023) for John Cale, Warhol & the Factory. Recent journals: Cable Street, Harpy Hybrid, Storms Journal, Cutbow Q, Street Cake,  Feral, Erato, Setu, WatchYrHead, Visual Verse, & others. Robert contributed poetry to the recent 40th anniversary exhibition for the band, Bronski Beat (UK).   

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/editor of numerous books on gender, sexuality, and history. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was Black Bough Poetry’s December 2022 Book of the Month.   Twitter/X: @merril_mds   Instagram: mdsmithnj   https://merrildsmith.org/  

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 Nisbet Poetry Award, The Federation of Writers Scotland Competition and The Scottish Association of Writers Write up North Competition.  She has read at many poetry events and her work has been set to music, most notably a score was completed by Dr Mark Keane musical director of multi award winning Tribal Chamber Choir and performed at Cork City Hall. Eileen has also been a poet in residence in a gallery where she offered ekphrastic workshops.

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.  In 2017 she was a Poet in Residence at a local Victorian Park in Crawley and her poetry was exhibited throughout the park. In 2019 her poetry was on display at Crawley Museum.  Patricia has had numerous poems and short stories published in various literary magazines and anthologies. You can find her books here.. 

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 collaborates with The Echo with a sports column.