Lydia Macpherson won the Crashaw Prize for her debut collection
Love Me Do (Salt, 2014). She now lives in the last inhabited house before Top Withens, the ruined moorland farm widely identified as the model for
Wuthering Heights, and her five-times-great-grandfather Jonas Sunderland farmed that same land during the Brontës' lifetimes. The biographical circumstances are not incidental: they are the ground the poems stand on.
The Heights, published by Calder Valley Poetry in 2026 and launched at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, is the work that comes out of that position. It is a pamphlet rooted in a specific place, a specific family history, and a specific literary inheritance
by Lydia MacPherson
Calder Valley Press
April 2026
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