Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: Atkinsons Upper Hall
Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands
Come and join Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers as they share stories and talk about the bogs and peatlands they know so well, how precious they are as habitats for all kinds of life and how overlooked and how at risk they are.
Like peat, their book is full of living things, including stories. Stories of scientific study, archaeological discovery; personal stories of suffering and growth. Fiction and poetry. Stories of damage and threat, from Walshaw Moor to the peatlands of Papua New Guinea.
This book is a collaboration between The Boggarts (a group of writers working to protect peatlands, and especially Walshaw Moor), Little Toller Books and Bluemoose Books.
AUTHORS:
Clare Shaw was born in Burnley in 1972. Their collections, all published by Bloodaxe, include Straight Ahead (2006), Head On (2012) and Towards a General Theory of Love (2022), which won a Northern Writers' Award and was a Poetry Society Book of the Year. Their new collection, I Saw What I Know, will be published in 2026.
Anna Chilvers is a writer and creative writing teacher, working in universities and in the community. She has a strong interest in place which is reflected in her novels, and she uses walking as a creative practice. Her fiction, published by Blue Moose, includes East Coast Road (2020), Tainted Love (2016 and Orca and Bird (2025).
AGE GUIDANCE: 16+
Venue Details
VENUE: The Upper Hall, Atkinsons:
12 China Street, LA1 1EX / 01524 65470 / thehall@thecoffeehopper.com
ACCESS: This is an upstairs venue but there is step free access from Castle Hilll, down the small road next to La Casetta. This entrance is step free. There is an accessible toilet and baby changing facilities. Assistance dogs are allowed. There isn’t an induction loop.
