Suzette Richards
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Mission statement: I don’t use AI to generate or even tweak my poetry, because I am a better poet than it.

 

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 Types of Poems), 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. 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:

  1. © The Eutony of Words, 2018 ISBN 978-0-6399382-0-2
  2. © Docendo discimus, 2021 (Revised 2023) ISBN 978-0-620-95432-7
  3. © Flight of Thoughts, 2023 ISBN 978-0-6397-8880-7
  4. © Downtown - Poetic Devices, 2023 ISBN 978-0-7961-1968-1
  5.  © Rocking Poetry, 2033 ISBN 978-0-7961-2824-9
  6. 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), up till now.

Go Fish - A Book Prize

Blog Posted by Suzette Richards: 7/30/2025 1:37:00 AM

The top 3 poems will be featured in this self=published book—with their written permission and they retain the copyright to their poems.

To all the winners of this contest: This FREE light read is a PDF copy of the 88-page (4.5 MB) handy poet’s companion, Niaiz. The prize is not exchangeable for cash. The PDF will be e-mailed to the recipients—all private information will be treated with the utmost confidentiality, and will not be shared with a 3rd party, or result in SPAM.

How to win this collector’s item:

See my latest contest, Go Fish, for the details how to enter this exciting new adventure I am inviting the poets to embark upon.

You may pose questions relating to the contest requirements on this blog, and not on my poem(s) or via Soup Mail. Thank you.

Happy quills!

Su


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Date: 7/31/2025 5:26:00 AM
LOL...Was just thinking (inspired by the prompt - and the photo) that aren't we, as poets, helping people "see" the forest - not by focusing on (defining) individual trees, but by concepts as to how they, as a whole, create a forest?----That "forest" being somewhat different to each reader? Yes, I'm being purposefully opaque here ~ but not really!
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Date: 7/31/2025 9:00:00 PM
I think that it is a good analogy, Graig.
Date: 7/30/2025 9:02:00 AM
At first and second glance complex, but then starts to come into focus - but never totally, nor should it...because...focus means, as you allude, "telling" rather than "showing" (inciting) thought. Love the instigation BTW, because a musical fugue tells nothing except a concept/idea that is elaborated on from a different angle, like seen from the bevel of a mirror (yes, specular). A loose interpretation might be improvisation in jazz, though often they stray too far from the subject/melody, it is still the feeling instigated by the original melody? In classical, it is a more structured variation, yet still adding abstract ideas to the simple?
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Date: 7/30/2025 10:27:00 AM
Thank for adding details to plump out the contest form. I've learnt something new here. Yes, it is a basic melody then progressing, but never straying far from the original thread - like reeling in the fish to land the "truth."

Previous Blogs

 
Reinventing the Wheel? Have your say
Date Posted: 9/8/2025 7:02:00 AM
It’s not you, it’s me
Date Posted: 9/2/2025 2:55:00 AM
Go Fish winners
Date Posted: 8/30/2025 1:56:00 AM
‘nough said
Date Posted: 8/24/2025 1:24:00 AM
Designed Poetic Forms Resistant to AI Imitation
Date Posted: 8/20/2025 12:10:00 AM
To Quote or Not to Quote - That Is the Question
Date Posted: 8/15/2025 8:04:00 AM
GO FISH FOR CONTEST DETAILS
Date Posted: 8/14/2025 6:33:00 AM
Haibun - Subtle and Respectful
Date Posted: 8/9/2025 12:35:00 PM
Haiku - A Lesson in Humility
Date Posted: 8/8/2025 2:08:00 AM
Prose Poetry versus ‘Regular’ Poetry - A Vignette’s Whisper
Date Posted: 8/7/2025 1:12:00 AM
Poets as Truth Tellers
Date Posted: 8/2/2025 11:26:00 PM
Go Fish - A Book Prize
Date Posted: 7/30/2025 1:37:00 AM
Mathematics, Poetry, and Trust Issues
Date Posted: 7/26/2025 2:10:00 AM
A Fascinating Cultural Tension
Date Posted: 7/20/2025 1:20:00 AM
Blasphemy
Date Posted: 7/14/2025 8:12:00 PM
A Gentle Nudge is not a Critique
Date Posted: 7/13/2025 3:17:00 AM
Tonal Slippage – The Ins and Outs
Date Posted: 6/30/2025 4:45:00 AM
THE AI-BRAIN SYNDROME SYMPTOMS
Date Posted: 6/26/2025 3:09:00 AM
JUDGING GUIDE FOR SPONSORS
Date Posted: 6/20/2025 1:10:00 AM
Suzette Swan Arc - Contest Finale
Date Posted: 6/14/2025 12:12:00 AM
Suzette Swan Arc and AI with Examples
Date Posted: 5/25/2025 6:00:00 AM
Lost in Translation
Date Posted: 5/21/2025 3:17:00 AM
Elements of Nature - Suzette Swan Arc Poetry
Date Posted: 5/14/2025 11:20:00 PM
Klein’s Vase Verse - A New Poetic Form Freer than Free Verse
Date Posted: 5/7/2025 12:54:00 PM
Free Verse – How Free is It?
Date Posted: 4/26/2025 11:37:00 PM

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