Sue Finch is the author of two poetry collections: Magnifying Glass (2020), and Welcome to the Museum of a Life (2024). Her poems have been recorded for iamb, published in a number of online magazines and journals and featured on the poetry podcasts ‘Eat the Storms’ and ‘A Thousand Shades of Green’. She loves the coast, peculiar things, and the scent of ice-cream freezers. Vortex Over Wave, Sue’s coffee table book, was published in 2023 and features a selection of her #ElasticBandPhotos and poems for the full moon.
Sue lives with her wife in North Wales. She says: I love setting words down on a page and I enjoy seeing where a line or a thought can take me. I have a writing desk in the corner of the lounge where there is room to tuck away into the quiet world of writing. My wife, Kath, is often invited to ‘Poetry Corner’ (a chair in our lounge) to be the first audience and critical listener for the drafts I am working on.
There is a rich element of the confessional to Sue’s work, and she is also influenced by folk tales, dreams, and her rich imagination.
The first thirty years of Sue’s professional life were in education, working her way from class teacher to head in a range of primary schools. Throughout this time Sue has been writing poetry and encouraging others to write, leading to Poetry Supper evenings in her last school where books of poetry written by pupils and staff would be launched and shared with families. Sue believes everyone has an element of the poetic inside them which they can tap into with the right inspiration and encouragement.
Sue is currently training to be an executive coach and has found that poetry can be a useful tool for clients in their sessions.
“Sue Finch’s voice is both steady and questioning as she sets down the archive of her life museum and invites you to lean in for a closer look. Each exhibit feels like a very personal and off-kilter chronicle of a collective memory where wolves and silence stand with their backs to the corners of the theatrical space of a museum cabinet in which Smurfs and giraffes have walk-on parts.” Helen Ivory.
Sue Finch 