This reading was part of the Live Canon Lunchtime Reading Series during the UK lockdown of 2020/2021. You can watch all the readings at: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoAc6SpoqvXgrLTHsGhMMVDXuDJPR95AV Sue Burge is a freelance creative writing and film studies tutor based in North Norfolk. Her poems appear in a range of publications including The North, Mslexia, Magma, Under the Radar, Strix, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter’s House, The Ekphrastic Review, Lighthouse and Poetry News. She has featured in themed anthologies with poems on science fiction, modern Gothic, illness, Britishness, endangered birds, WWI and the current pandemic. Her first collection In the Kingdom of Shadows (Live Canon) and debut pamphlet Lumière (Hedgehog Poetry Press) were published in Autumn 2018, followed by her second pamphlet The Saltwater Diaries in 2020. Her second full collection, Confetti Dancers, was published by Live Canon in 2021. To find out more about Live Canon, please visit https://www.livecanon.co.uk To support us, please visit our Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/LiveCanon