Emma Conally-Barklem at the Brontë Birthplace (Zoom)

An online alert from the Bronté Birthplace in Thornton for tomorrow, June 23:

Monthly Talk: Emma Conally-Barklem ‘The High Flight: 50 Poems Inspired by Emily Brontë’s Hawk’

Speaker: Emma Conally-Barklem

Tuesday 23rd June, 6:30pm

Online Talk via Zoom

Join us for a fascinating journey through space and time as Emma discusses the process of creating an imagined world from one of the few details known about Emily Brontë. It is believed she rescued then kept a Merlin Hawk who she called Nero. Her bird of prey soars through history and the West Yorkshire landscape both quarry and predator. Conally-Barklem explores what it means to be captive and to be wild, the condition of the falconer, its lore and mystery through the enigmatic Brontë sister who stands both inside and outside of time.