A symposium on landscape and literature Saturday 6 October 2012, 10.00am-4.30pm West Lane Baptist Centre, Haworth BD22 8EN
Moonrise, Haworth Moor
Tickets from [email protected] 01535 640188
We are proud to announce the line-up for this one-day conference:
• David Atkinson of Hull University introduces humanistic geography in relation to Jay Appleton’s habitat theories
• Professor Simon Dentith 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
• 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
