Event
8th October
3 Essex Poets, Big Day of Poetry at Cramphorn Theatre.

Bio

Suzanne Conway completed an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at Sussex University in 1998 and won the Asham Award for Poetry that same year; she won the Live Literature Fresh Talent Poetry Prize in 2002.  She has published widely in magazines including The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Seam, Magma, Ambit and has one forthcoming with London Magazine.  She has been mentored by John Burnside and published the poetry and prose they worked on together in an anthology called Don’t Think of Tigers.  She has a poem in the recently published anthology The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy.  She has performed her work at The Troubadour, The Torriano and The Betsey Trotwood.  She is slowly completing her first collection.

 When Suzanne isn't transforming experience into poems, she relishes swimming in the sea, running the hills or riding her bicycle very fast. This is punctuated by lots of lying down.

Poem


UNDERGROUND

On the District line,
our conversation speeds up,
we count tube stops
before you get off. 
        We manage Kew to South Ken
without a kiss,
then lips closed, half-decent,
soon millimetres apart,
as if open mouths
would unbar our hearts,
but we’re done for
from Victoria to Westminster.
       
You leave at Mansion House.
I study the stitching
of someone’s shoes
so my gaze won’t follow you.  
       As I walk the tunnels
between Monument and Bank,
I notice the fuzz of colours,
the fast feet and legs
of those better men
I will never meet.