Mission statement: I don’t use AI to generate or even tweak my poetry, because I am a better poet than it.
For a quick overview of my bio, using Grok 4, use the prompt: "Suzette Richards Poet'.
Poetry has been my passion since my retirement from an accountancy based career a dozen years ago. I currently live in South Africa and this rainbow nation has inspired many of my poems. I also have British nationality and embrace their grammar and spelling, but I read widely and am not fazed by strict grammar rules: A pavement/sidewalk; glasses/eyeglasses; judgement/judgment, et cetera; they are one and the same to me when I read poetry. To date, I have self-published a number of books, including the poetry anthology by international poets, © Time, 2014 ISBN 978-0-620-60578-6, and have been cited in many international publications, both poetry journals, as well as in scholarly handbooks. Some of my short stories have been published in international electronic publications, and one of my novellas had been short-listed for an Afrikaans SA publication.
I serve on the Board of Advisers, of Taleemi Baithak.
I have a number (14 to date) poetic forms to my credit, notably, Suzette Prime, 2012 (listed here on PoetrySoup under Poem Types), as well as The Tesla 3-6-9, 2017, and Suzcrostic, 2021 (listed under New Poetic Forms here on PoetrySoup), Suzette sonnet (SUZNET), 2023 - introduced via an article here at PoetrySoup, as well as the brand new Suzette Swan Arc, 3 April 2025. Other invented forms which are popular: Phoenix Sixain, Excire, and Specular Fugue. These all resist AI imitation.
My most recent books which include examples of my poetry as well as notes regarding poetry - available directly from me. Please note that due to the fact that there isn't an Amazon outlet in SA, I self-publish.
- © The Eutony of Words, 2018 ISBN 978-0-6399382-0-2
- © Docendo discimus, 2021 (Revised 2023) ISBN 978-0-620-95432-7
- © Flight of Thoughts, 2023 ISBN 978-0-6397-8880-7
- © Downtown - Poetic Devices, 2023 ISBN 978-0-7961-1968-1
- © Rocking Poetry, 2033 ISBN 978-0-7961-2824-9
- NEW: moonwake - Suzette Prime poetry, ISBN 978-1-0370-1836-7(PDF). It is a collection of 61+ Suzette Prime poetry spanning from 2012 (when I designed the poetic form), to date.