A Thousand Shades of Green

Pivot Points and Portals

Join Susan for this Special Episode, where she celebrates the brand new collaborative poetry collection, “Pivot Points and Portals”, from Karen Mooney and Caroline Johnstone, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.  You can buy your very own copy here 

Bojana Stojcic

Serbia-born and Germany-based, Bojana Stojcic has work published widely across print and online journals, including Burning House Press, Down in the Dirt, Entropy, GLITCHWORDS, Indian Periodical and MockingHeart Review, among others. When not teaching, writing or reading, she can be found swimming or making chocolate cakes with her darling young one.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

An award-winning writer, Karen Pierce Gonzalez's work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio and podcast shows. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press) and Moon Kissed, Earth Wrought, Vision Drunk (with a North American publisher). 
  
With degrees in creative writing, anthropological linguistics, and folklore, she is also a former journalist and folklore columnist who now hosts a quarterly ‘Get Ekphrastic with Folk Art’ blogzine on FolkHeart Press. 
 
An intuitive artist, her work is primarily upon assemblage (3D) based upon elements found in nature. To date, 50+ of her art images, including six cover images, have been published in a range of literary journals/magazines
 

The Whiskey Tree; Untamed Love

Handpicked by Alan Parry, these poems discuss love in its myriad forms.  Untamed Love explores the terrains of affection, longing, and resilience.  From intimate whispers to the stark realities of life’s challenges, each piece navigates the depths of the heart.  The Whiskey Tree; Untamed Love (Wave 1) is a celebration of love’s enduring spirit, making it a must-read for anyone captivated by the strength and vulnerability of the heart.  https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/about/

Paul Brookes

Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include Wolf Eye, (Red Ceilings Press, 2023), Wolf Eye Territory,(ImpSpired, 2024). Forthcoming Ever Striding Edge, (Dark Winter Press, 2024). He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews and challenges and a new substack webzine, The Starbeck Orion. He has had work broadcast on BBC Radio 3 The Verb and BBC Radio Sheffield. Nominated for the Rhysling Prize, and twice for the Pushcart Prize. Recently, guest edited for the second time Setumag's "Some British Working Class Poets". https://thewombwellrainbow.wordpress.com
https://substack.com/@thestarbeckorion7

Rhona Greene

Rhona Greene is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer from Dublin is addicted to poetry and loves to read and celebrate the work of the wonderful online poetry community. She is published in several Black Bough Poetry editions, was shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award and her poem in Afterfeather gave the edition its name. She was the featured prose writer in The Storms Journal Issue 2 and has appeared in Sarah Connor’s Advent Poems, Karen Pierce Gonzalez’s Get Ekphrastic With Folk Art and The Wombwell Rainbow’s Not Advent. She is honoured and delighted to feature on A Thousand Shades of Green podcast. Thank you Susan.
Twitter & Instagram @rhona_greene & Bluesky @rhonagreene.bsky.social

Julian Day

Julian Day is a writer currently based in Surrey. His poetry has been published by Blackbough Poetry press, in their online spring and print winter 2023 anthologies. He was their featured poet in the spring edition and has been one of their guest readers on Zoom. Julian has been nominated for a Best Of The Net by Blackbough Poetry. His work has also been published by The Storms Journal and his work was featured three times in season 7 of Eat The Storms podcast. In 2024, Julian was a featured guest writer on Patricia's Pen Blog and was a guest reader on Zoom with Lime Square Poets. 

Back From Away

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Back From Away, the striking new poetry collection from Damien B. Donnelly, published by Turas Press.  You can buy your very own copy of Back From Away here, and find out more about Damien on floweringink.com.

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