Briony Hughes in conversation with Becca Drake

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Writers at York and Water Poetics event

Join us for the latest event in the Water Poetics reading series, hosted by Writers at York at the University of York.

Our guest speaker is Dr Briony Hughes, whose publications include Rhizomes (Broken Sleep Books), Milk (Hem Press), Dorothy (Broken Sleep Books), Microsporidial (Sampson Low), and RHIZOME or TAPROOT (Paper View Books).

Her limited-edition artists’ books have been collected by the National Poetry Library, The British Library, Senate House Library, The Bodleian, and the Kings College London Special Collections.

She is editor at Osmosis Press and a co-founder of the Crested Tit Collective. She co-edits the HOW(ever) How2 Digital Archive Project at SUNY Buffalo, and the poetry feature in Resurgence and Ecologist magazine. The evening will consist of Briony reading from her collection Milk, followed by a dialogue on ‘hydropoetics’ with fellow poet Becca Drake, and culminating in a practical demonstration of writing with water.

Photo by Karolina