Event
9th October
3 Essex Poets, Big Day of Poetry at Cramphorn Theatre.

Bio
Susan Grindley was born and grew up in Essex, moving to Hackney, where she still lives, in 1970. After a career as a graphic designer and lecturer, she began writing poetry fifteen years ago while studying for an MA in landscape architecture. Her poems have been published in Magma, Poetry News, Rising and South Bank Poetry, in the online magazines Limelight and Nth Position and in anthologies, including Gobby Deegan's Riposte, edited by John Stammers, for which she wrote the title poem. She has taken part in a Broadcast and other readings for Roddy Lumsden, and has also read for The Shuffle at the Poetry Café,Oxfam Books, Marylebone, and Rising Voices at The Troubadour.

Poem

Gobby Deegan's Riposte

All them bad things you says I is, you is all them things also.
Them bad things you all says I is, you is also all them things.
Bad things, all them things you says I is, you is also all them.
Things, all them bad things you says I also is, you is them all.
You is all them bad things, says I. Also all you is them things.
Says you, I is all them things. You is also all them bad things.
I says all them things also is you, all them bad things is you.
Is I also all them things you, all you, says is them bad things?
You says I is bad, all them things. All you things is also them.
Is all them things I says bad? You, also you, is all them things.
All them is bad things. You also, I says all them things is you.
Them things you says is all you. Also all them bad things is I.
Things, bad things you says. Also I is all them. You is all them.
Also I is all them things you says. You is all them bad things.