SUE LEWIS is a lyric poet from South London. Her poems and haiku explore the texture of our lives, revealing things which are often left unsaid.

Everything now is
stained with hope,
the juice of possibility.
Ripe pomegranate blush.
New mornings open
while we hold our breath;
vermilion on our far horizon.
Even rain delights me now:
soft amber jazz percussion.
How do I live with all this
sudden brilliance?
I stay awake all night,
longing for the salt;
the everyday enchantment.

— ‘Pomegranate’ from Journey

Sue has won the Cinnamon Press poetry pamphlet competition twice: with Texture in 2019 and again in 2021 with Journey. She has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and her work has been published in poetry magazines and haiku journals. Her new pamphlet collection, Written down in pencil, will be published by Hedgehog Press in July 2024.

She reads regularly with Sutton Writers, Mole Valley Poets and Croydon’s Poets Anonymous. She is a member of the British Haiku Society, the Kith writing community and Sutton Arts Network. She has an MA in Creative Writing, for which she was awarded a Distinction.

She is fascinated by art and music, plays the recorder, practises qigong and loves to walk through both rural and urban landscapes.

Journey and Texture are available from Cinnamon Press and from all good online bookshops and Amazon.