A Thousand Shades of Green

Loggerheads

Lucy Heuschen is a British poet living in the countryside near Bonn, Germany with her family and rescue dog. She came back to reading and writing poetry after a twenty-year legal career and a life-changing breast cancer diagnosis in 2018.
 
After her cancer treatment, in 2020 Lucy founded The Rainbow Poems, an online poetry community for anyone going through major life change. During the pandemic and the years afterwards, The Rainbow Poems hosted over 140 poets, from first-time writers to prize-winning poets. Lucy was also the Editor of the Sonnets for Shakespeare anthology, raising funds for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust during lockdown. She is the Poetry Society's Stanza Representative for Germany.
 
Lucy's poems have appeared in The High Window, Ink Sweat & Tears, Obsessed With Pipework, Lighthouse, Skylight 47 and The Storms among many others. She loves anthologies for the community they foster and she has appeared in anthologies by Black Bough, Dreich, Sídhe Press, Orchard Lea, Yaffle and New Contexts.
Lucy’s debut pamphlet “We Wear The Crown” was published by Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2022 and her second, “Loggerheads” — the subject of this episode of A Thousand Shades of Green — won The Broken Spine’s annual chapbook competition in 2023. “Loggerheads” will make its way into the world in late April 2024. Lucy's first full collection, bringing together her love of history, storytelling, family and feminism, is due to be published by Yaffle Press. 
 
You can find Lucy at her website:  www.lucyheuschen.co.uk and via X and Bluesky at PetiteCreature1.

Welcome to The Museum of a Life

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella. In this episode, we celebrate, “Welcome to The Museum of a Life”, the new poetry collection from Sue Finch, published by Black Eyes Publishing.  You can buy your very own copy of Welcome to the Museum of a Life here, and find out more about Sue Finch on floweringink.com

Dawn’s Incision

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella.  In this Special Episode, we celebrate Dawn’s Incision, the new forthcoming poetry collection from David Hanlon,  published by Ice Floe Press.  You can learn about David on floweringink.com and find him on Facebook, Twitter (X) @DavidHanlon13.

The Breadcrumb Trail

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating The Breadcrumb Trail, the new poetry collection from Lawrence Moore, published by JC Studio Press.  You can buy your very own copy of The Breadcrumb Trail Amazon UK, and find out more about Lawrence on floweringink.com.

Charybdis

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Charybdis, the newest novel from Suzanne Craig -Whytock, published by JC Studio Press.  You can buy your very own copy of Charybis here , and find out more about Suzanne on flowerinignk.com 

Season 2 Finale

The Season 2 Finale of A Thousand Shades of Green highlights the diverse and beautiful writing from all of our Season 2 featured writers: Gaynor Kane, Sue Finch, David Hanlon, Basilike Pappa, Karen Mooney, Beth Brooke, Jude Marr and Pratibha Castle.

Pratibha Castle

Pratibha Castle, an Irish born poet living in West Sussex, is widely anthologised and published in journals and ezines including Agenda, The Friday Poem, High Window, Orbis, Spelt, Stand, Tears in The Fence, and One Hand Clapping. A Pushcart nominee, short listed in The Bridport Prize 2023, her work has additionally been highly commended and shortlisted in numerous poetry competitions including Indigo Press, Repton, King Lear Award and the Welsh Poetry Competition. Her latest pamphlet, Miniskirts in The Waste Land, a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection 2023, takes the reader on a trip through Notting Hill and India in the late 60s/early 70s. She is currently working towards a full collection.

Jude Marr

Jude Marr (he, him) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet, editor and teacher. Jude’s full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and he admires the press’s founders so much that he now also works with them, as a reader, editor, and social media person. Jude also has a chapbook, Breakfast for the Birds (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and he is currently putting together a new, as yet unnamed, collection. Jude’s work has appeared in many journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic; most recently in Reed Magazine, Leavings, Cutleaf Journal, and in Masculinity: An Anthology of Modern Voices just out from Broken Sleep Books. After a checkered early career and ten years of living, learning and teaching in the US, Jude is now in England, working as a freelance editor and writing coach, and sometimes teaching an evening class in creative writing at the local art college. But cold winters and creeping intimations of age do not agree with Jude; he is plotting another move, hopefully to a warmer climate, next year. Here’s to the next adventure.
For more about Jude’s work and to contact him, go to his website judemarr.com or find him on social media.

Beth Brooke

Beth is a Dorset based writer. She has three published pamphlets- A Landscape With Birds (2022), Transformations (2023) - both published by Hedgehog Press and Chalk Stories, also published in 2023 by Hobnob Press. Beth feels that writing is a compulsion; sometimes she sees something and the words just come, sometimes it’s very slow and almost painful work but it is always joyful.

Karen Mooney

Karen herds sleepless night notions to shear and tease apart from the heart before attempting to knit them into a garment that others can slip into.   The Hedgehog Poetry Press has published some of those garments; more recent work can be found in The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. Karen’s work has been published in the UK, USA and Ireland and is included in several anthologies. She co-wrote ‘Penned In’ with Gaynor Kane, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2020, publisher of her recent debut pamphlet ‘Missing Pieces’ and of her forthcoming pamphlet ‘Pivot Points & Portals’, co-written with Caroline Johnstone.