Walking through Elmet

Please note The Elmet Trust are the organisers of this event. membership rates do not apply.

Meeting at Heptonstall Museum – Join award-winning poet and novelist, Michael Stewart, on a walk through Elmet, which, according
to Ted Hughes, was the last British Celtic Kingdom, a ‘wilderness, a notorious refuge for criminals, a hide-out for refuges’. Be inspired by
the same landscape that inspired both Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.

The walk will be followed by a workshop that will take the basis of these inspirations, to shape poetic responses.

Tickets: £15/£12

Michael Stewart is the author of four novels: King Crow; Café Assassin; Ill Will; and Black Wood Women; two short story collections:
Mr Jolly and Four Letter Words; two poetry collections: Couples and The Dogs; and a hybrid memoir: Walking the Invisible: Following in the
Brontës’ Footsteps. He is the creator of the Brontë Stones project and runs the Brontë Writing Centre.