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Tue 17 Jun 2025
Wild Women Writing the North
Discussion
Literature
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Leeds Lit Fest

In Wild Women Writing the North, author and poet Rachel Bower is in conversation with poet, academic and folklorist Professor Emily Zobel Marshall. Rachel will talk about, and read from, her debut novel It Comes from the River (Bloomsbury) as well as her new poetry collection, Bee (Hazel Press). Emily will share her insights and also read from her first poetry collection, Bath of Herbs (Peepal Tree Press).

Infused with the folklore of Northern England, It Comes from the River is an unforgettable, uncanny debut about violence, resilience and hope – and the power of women when they work together.

Bee features eighteen poems exploring the ancient and complicated relationship of help and harm between bees and humans, from Stone Age honey hunters to modern beekeepers.

Bath of Herbs explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality.

Rivers, bees, folklore and wild women. Now that's a combination you won't get anywhere else!

Hyde Park Book Club

27 - 29 Headingley Lane
Leeds
LS6 1BL
United Kingdom

53.81618, -1.566593

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    Tue 17 Jun 2025
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    Tue 17 Jun 2025
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