Fab day at the Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival yesterday and an outing for my debut poetry collection These are the Things we Have Lost! Enjoyed sharing the stage with so many wonderful poets, writers and thinkers. And of course the amazing Jess Mookherjee, who put together the Festival of Ideas.

#TheDeeperRead 13 is out now, featuring "Ballet" by @janicewarman.bsky.social from her @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social collection These are the things we have lost. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper..., please like and subscribe, it's free!

The Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival launches tomorrow! I'll be on a panel at 2pm in Calverley Gardens' Festival of Ideas for The Intimate Catastrophe discussion - please join us. Poems from These are the Things we Have Lost, @flyonthewallpress #twlf

Looking forward to reading from my new collection These are the Things we Have Lost TONIGHT at the Poetry and Spoken Word No-Mic at the Queen's Arms, Cowden Pound at 6.30pm. Please join me and bring a poem for the open mic! @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social

The Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival launches this week - packed with great writers! I'll be on a panel at 2pm Saturday 2nd May in Calverley Gardens' Festival of Ideas for The Intimate Catastrophe discussion - please join me! Poems from These are the Things we Have Lost, @flyonthewallpress

We were lucky to have TS Eliot-shortlisted poet Jack Underwood to read to us at @kentandsussexpoetrysociety this week. I met him at Goldsmiths where he is a senior lecturer on the Creative Writing PhD – it was good to see him again. He was kind enough to take home a copy of my debut collection!

As always on Mother's Day, I am missing the loving, kind, brave and beautiful Lynne, who fiercely loved her daughters, grandchildren and the one great-grandchild born before we lost her. Here are a few photos of her – none can fully capture her essence. But they do help me remember her ❤️

Please join me at 5.30pm UK time on 12th March to hear poems from my debut collection These are the Things we Have Lost. And bring a poem if you fancy reading in the open mic!

I had a lot of fun being interviewed by award-winning Durham poet Sam Szanto, and hope you enjoy it too! Here's a snippet to start you off: ‘Poetry taps into the dark river of our deepest selves that runs below our lives, and which is both bitter and sweet.’

A lovely ride on Ashdown Forest in the last of the sunshine today. This is where I do much of my writing - aboard my sweet horse Traveller. Somehow, words come easily to me as we mosey along, two buddies in the glorious landscape. #ashdownforest #writer #poetsofinstagram #horsesofinstagram

I've long earned a living as a national journalist, but nothing has thrilled me as much as payments I received as a finalist in the @mslexia.bsky.social Poetry Comp and for a poem in Crannóg Magazine. Hoping my poetry book, out in Jan 26 from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social, will earn me much more!

Perhaps #InternationalWomensDay is a good day to introduce myself on Bluesky, although one day will never be enough, not with the worldwide levels of domestic abuse and woman murder as they are now #domesticviolence #DSGBV

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