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URL:https://brontebirthplace.com/events/monthly-talk-emma-conally-barklem-
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SUMMARY:Monthly Talk: Emma Conally-Barklem 'The High Flight: 50 Poems Inspi
 red by Emily Brontë's Hawk'
DESCRIPTION:'The High Flight: 50 Poems Inspired by Emily Brontë's Hawk'\n\
 nSpeaker: Emma Conally-Barklem\n\nDate: Tuesday 23rd June\, 6:30pm\n\nOnli
 ne Talk via Zoom.\n\n\n\n*Please note: this event is now online only\, joi
 ning details will be sent out over email and the talk will take place on z
 oom.\n\nJoin us for a fascinating journey through space and time as Emma d
 iscusses the process of creating an imagined world from one of the few det
 ails known about Emily Brontë. It is believed she rescued then kept a Mer
 lin Hawk who she called Nero. Her bird of prey soars through history and t
 he West Yorkshire landscape both quarry and predator. Conally-Barklem expl
 ores what it means to be captive and to be wild\, the condition of the fal
 coner\, its lore and mystery through the enigmatic Brontë sister who stan
 ds both inside and outside of time.\n\n'By turns mythic\, soaring\, earthb
 ound and unyielding\, this collection is a dazzling addition to the Bront
 ë canon.’\n\nKaren Powell\, author of Fifteen Wild Decembers\n\n‘A tr
 uly astonishing collection bristling with piercing insight and originality
 - this is Conally-Barklem at the height of her powers’\n\nSharon Wright\
 , journalist and Brontë biographer\n\n‘One of the most interesting Brit
 ish poets working today’\n\nGraham Watson\, author of The Invention of C
 harlotte Brontë\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nEmma Conally-Barklem is an author\, yoga te
 acher and workshop facilitator based in Yorkshire. Her first collection Th
 e Ridings was curated into an exhibition at South Square gallery in her ho
 metown\, Bradford. Hymns from the Sisters was written after a residency at
  the Brontë Parsonage Museum. She was a core poet for the BBC’s Contain
 s Strong Language Poetry Festival 2025 and a guest on BBC Radio 4’s flag
 ship arts magazine Front Row discussing the Brontës and their lives. Emma
  won The Society of Young Publishers First Chapter Award 2025. Emily Bront
 ë’s Hawk is her first full collection.\n\nTicket Price: £6\n\nBuy Tick
 ets Here
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