SUE LEWIS is a lyric poet from South London who also writes haiku and short fiction.

I will write to you

& it will be
black night white moon

unfathomably bright

a moon to
hold your breath by

sky punched through with light

beneath the stars
the vixen shadow

yew tree silhouette

quiet unfold of
owl-soft feathers

cat’s unweighted tread

let this be the backdrop
poetry’s midnight space

a landscape
holding nothing less

than all we long to say.

(‘Chiaroscuro’
Written down in pencil)

Sue has been published in magazines, anthologies and haiku journals: she was short listed twice for the Bridport Poetry Prize and has been a winner of the Cinnamon pamphlet competition three times. Her pamphlet Written down in pencil, published by Hedgehog Press in 2024, raised £500 for local charities. She was a finalist in the Mslexia 2025 Flash Fiction Competition and shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize in 2026.

She has read her poetry in libraries, wine bars and bookshops; at community festivals and in historic houses. She has an MA in Creative Writing (with Distinction) and is a member of the British Haiku Society, Sutton Arts Network and the Kith writing community. She is also a member of Sutton Writers, Mole Valley Poets and Croydon’s Poets Anonymous.

Journey, Texture and Between the Words are available from Cinnamon Press and from all good online bookshops and Amazon. Written down in pencil is available from Amazon.

Sue’s new pamphlet Leaf will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2027.

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