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""Harnessing winter's energy, I drift, my free, wild woman's soul, alight with day's deep desires."" An evocative, soul-stirring poetry collection for adults, by history-making theatre practitioner and Amazon best-selling author of Bare Spirit, Susan Marshall. In winter in Melbourne, 2024, award-winning Susan Marshall set herself a challenge. Outdoors, she attuned herself to the raw, living energies of the season and fostered the artistic emergence and growth of the wild soul in poetry. What resulted is Susan's magnificent collection of 31 poems: Wild Soul: Contemporary Classical Winter Poetry, which is a tribute to her refined, globally renown, metaphysical artistry. She unleashes the soul's wild states of existence amidst: the dark, fire, fog, grey, light, rain, ice, snow, starkness, storm, stillness and silence of winter. Susan fuses contemporary metaphysical poetry with the conventions of classical literary styles, including: Romanticism (Wild Woman Soul, Winter Solstice's Secret, Beats of Wander, Wild Love, Stoic Solitude, Harboured Love and Kiss Me with Clear Sight); Dark Romanticism (Silent Flight, Cold Frost, Quieten My Heart, Your Voice Hides, Free Soul, Hold onto My Fire Heart and A Shelter for the Soul ); Gothic (Dark Storm Melody, Stirring her Storm, Love's Wild Silhouette, Tiny, Soulful Dancer, Wild Alive and Spirit of the Light) and Steam Punk (Lost Flame of Love). Susan allures us into the wild presence, awakenings, emotions, journeys, manifestations, states and transformations of the soul with evocative, soul stirring personas, visual imagery and journeyed verses. Also included in this collection, are metaphysical, winter poems that Susan has written to pay tribute to the city of Florence, its people and its Renaissance history. In O Sweet Florence, Unearth My Soul, she acknowledges Florence's role in helping to awaken her own wild soul and its artistry. Her poem: Wild Artist's Soul acknowledges the significant, historical emergence and growth of the Renaissance artist. Susan celebrates the soul's healing and renewal at the end of winter, in her poem: Rise of the Daffodil. She has also written eight winter Sonnets (using Pertrarchan conventions), which detail her stunning, metaphysical inspirations in both Florence and Australia.

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""Susan Marshall's metaphysical poetry is absolutely breath-taking. Her refined verses emblaze winter with wild, artistic journeys that resonate deeply within, empowering us to face life's challenges with courage and love."" -Maggie Vasalla, Independent Reviewer

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Susan L. Marshall is the founder of Story Playscapes, an independent Australian publishing house. She is an Australian author, poet, dramatist, theatre practitioner, illustrator and essayist, known for her distinctively profound, metaphysical and deeply emotive work. Susan is also the founder of her monumental Theatre Playscapes style for young adults (introduced in her dramatic literature: ""Fleur of Yesterday"" and ""All the Hope We Carry""). She is a multiple award recipient (Top Story Award at Vocal Media; Award for Special Civic Service; Arthur Andersen Prize for Business Studies and an Australian National Volunteer Award for her work in literacy education). Susan is also the Amazon best-selling author of ""Bare Spirit"" (which is also recognised as a Popular Psychology publication) and ""Wild Soul,"" (which was also a #1 Hot New Release at Amazon Australia and #8 Hot New Release at Amazon USA). In her work at Story Playscapes, Susan dedicates herself to unique global literacy initiatives, such as the My Story Meadow Project and the Romantic Spirit Alight Readers' Garden, which work to provide reading, writing and wellbeing experiences for her global readership. Susan's body of work includes more than 35 publications, which contribute significantly to shaping the narrative of contemporary metaphysical literature. She creates works that fuse metaphysical philosophy with a diverse range of genres. Her distinctive writing voice is renowned for its unique mystical, lyrical and Romantic qualities, which share a heartfelt and sometimes surrealist narrative, evoking wonder and awe. Susan's works provide a special focus on the eternal nature of the Romantic Spirit and its journeys through every day human experiences; internal landscapes; deep soulful experiences and natural worlds. Her major professional publications, produced by Story Playscapes, are available in more than 200 countries and territories around the globe. In 2026, Susan L. Marshall has stepped into her new era as author and debut illustrator, on the release of her publication: ""Princess Zyra's Lost Storm: An Australian Childhood Myth."" Susan is also continuously developing new publications and the highly anticipated product line of Story Playscapes' premium and bespoke, signature Romantic Spirit Collection. Its first edition, to be released in May, will present her renown novel: ""Adira and the Dark Horse"" in a luxurious, premium hard cover, Dawn and Dusk Deluxe edition.

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