Poetry on Top Withens and Scribblemania on the Parsonage

Poets as Sylvia Plath or Ted Hughes have written around the Brontës. Botanizing knows it and features them in this extraordinary post that describes his visit to Top Withens. It's from last September, but it's really worthwhile.

[...]Among those looking for the Emily of the place was the then young, unknown painter Walter Sickert, who had Wuthering Heights in his bag. Later, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes came. I like to think about the two young poets, together on Top Withens, not huddling together, but each hunkered against a cold wind, each sequestering senses of the place.

If I pay the roots of the heather
Too close attention, they will invite me
To whiten my bones among them.
Sylvia Plath, from “Wuthering Heights"

There is also Ted Hughes’s poem “Emily Brontë:”

The wind on Crow Hill was her darling.
His fierce, high tide in her ear was her secret.
But his kiss was fatal. [...]
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And from the have been's to the will be's.Today, January 15, a new edition of Scribblemania begins at the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Scribblemania
From Monday 15 January Until 31 July.

Scribblemania - Annual poetry competition for children 16 years and under.
Forms available from the Education Officer 01535 640185/
susan.newby@bronte.org.uk.

Deadline for entries 31 July

More information on the Brontë Parsonage website.

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