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- £3.00
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- Litfest
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Polly Atkin: The Company of Owls - In conversation with Zoe Lambert
As the autumn nights draw in, join Polly Atkin in a nocturnal love song to the owls that surround her Lake District home – a meditation full of insight on learning to listen in a world full of noise.
In the woods above Polly Atkin’s home in Grasmere live the tawny owls she calls her neighbours. Each night, they come down to her cottage at dusk, calling out as night falls – in particular a trio of owlets she watches grow from fledglings to young adults.
As the antics of the owl siblings develop – their capacity to play, to bicker, to share and to protect – they encourage her to think differently about some of the big needs of all our lives: solitude and companionship, care and belonging, rest and retreat.
Polly Atkin has published 3 poetry pamphlets and 2 collections, Basic Nest Architecture and Much with Body. Her non-fiction includes Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth and the memoir Some of Us Just Fall. A freelance writer, she and her partner run the historic Grasmere bookshop Sam Read Bookseller.
Zoe Lambert is a writer and teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
Photo of Polly Atkin © Alex Muir Photography
