A symposium on landscape and literature
Moonrise, Haworth Moor
Saturday 6 October 2012, 10.00am-4.30pm West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth BD22 8EN tickets £15/£12 from [email protected] 01535 640188
The line-up for this one day conference has been announced:
• Professor David Atkinson of Hull University introduces humanistic geography in relation to Jay Appleton’s habitat theories
• Professor Simon Dentith of Reading University considers the role of moors and heaths in novels and poems
• Artist Rebecca Chesney describes her Brontë Weather Project, Hope’s Whisper
• Simon Armitage discusses the Stanza Stones project and his new book Walking Home – Travels with a troubador on the Pennine Way
• 3 members of Whitestone Arts Company – Simon Warner, Judith Adams and Stacey Johnstone – present walking and writing as mixed media performance
• Stephen Carver of the Wildland Research Institute introduces new methods of defining, identifying and mapping wilderness
• Painter and printmaker Carry Akroyd documents her extensive engagement with the poetry of John Clare
• Stephen Wood brings to life the history of settlement on Haworth Moor
• William Varley of West Yorkshire Geology Trust leads a walk to Penistone Hill quarries to see prehistoric fossils, industrial archaeology and public sculpture
