An alert from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for tomorrow, May 7:
Thu 7 May, 7:00pm
Brontë Parsonage Museum Shop
Come along to the museum shop where Emma Conally-Barklem will be giving a live reading of her latest collection of poems The High Flight: 50 Poems Inspired by Emily Brontë's Hawk.
Emma Conally-Barklem is an author, poet, yoga teacher and workshop facilitator based in Yorkshire. She has taught yoga for fourteen years both home and away. Her classes are creative, fun and led with kindness offering options for everybody who wishes to practice.
She is the author of four collections. Her first collection The Ridings was curated into an exhibition in her hometown, Bradford. Hymns from the Sisters was written after a residency at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Emma won the Black in White Poetry Prize 2024. Her first novel, Yoga Homicide was shortlisted for the 2025 Book Edit Writers’ Prize and a Top 100 choice for The Ascent Novel Prize 2025. She was a core poet for the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Poetry Festival Bradford 2025 and was a guest on Radio 4's 'Front Row' where she talked about the Brontës. She won the First Chapter Award 2025 for her grief work and services to marginalised communities.
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