Amy Jeffs in Conversation with George Younge

Join us at Waterstones on Coney Street for an evening of medieval storytelling and poetry with the bestselling author and printmaker Amy Jeffs, who will be in conversation with George Younge, Lecturer in Early English Literature.

Following the runaway success of her debut collection Storyland, Amy will be talking about her latest book Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain, which includes a set of specially commissioned translations of Old English poems by George.

In Wild, Amy journeys – on foot and through medieval texts – from landscapes of desolation to hope, offering the reader an insight into a world at once distant and profoundly close to home. The seven chapters, entitled Earth, Ocean, Forest, Beast, Fen, Catastrophe, Paradise, open with fiction and close with reflection. They blend reflections of travels through fen, forest and cave, with retelling of medieval texts that offer rich depictions of the natural world. From the Old English elegies to the englynion and immrama of the Celtic world – stories that largely represent figures whose voices are not generally heard in the corpus of medieval literature: women, outcasts, animals. The book ends with a series of lyrical translations of poems from the Exeter Book by George Younge.

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