by suzyrowland | Nov 30, 2017
Musicality and poetry have much in common – expressionism, perfectionism, mysticism. I happen to love both. I played piano until Grade 6 and would get lost in playing, I had to be asked to stop. My favourites to play were Mozart and Haydn, at best sweet...
by suzyrowland | Nov 30, 2017
Creating poetry is a joy and an endeavour. Handing your carefully selected verses over to another to design as your book takes shape, is like handing over your child to a new childminder. Someone else is in charge, temporarily. If they are experienced, they will ask...
by suzyrowland | Nov 8, 2017
by suzyrowland | Nov 8, 2017
‘Divided into three parts of an inner journey—Discovery, Holy Fire, Resurrection— Suzy Rigg’s Songs of my Soul is a diverse poetry collection. It has pieces that tackle the aches of isolation and fear and loss: ‘For one so alive/ it is hard to believe, you...
by suzyrowland | Nov 6, 2017
Q. Tell us a bit about your background A. I was born and brought up in the Midlands, with my mother, a teacher. She was also an eternal student and loved to read – she studied English literature for her first degree and there was lots of Chaucer, Shakespeare,...