SUE LEWIS is a South London poet. Her poetry speaks with empathy and insight about how things are; the texture of our lives.

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 three times: with Texture in 2019, with Journey in 2021 and now in 2024 with Between the Words. She has twice been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and her work has been published in poetry magazines and haiku journals.

Her latest pamphlet collection, Written down in pencil, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press in July 2024: sales of signed advance copies raised £500 for two local charities.

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. Written down in pencil is available as a print copy from Amazon or as a PDF from Hedgehog Press.

Between the Words will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2025: their 20th year as an independent publisher.