The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell
Event date and time
Tuesday 20 June 2023, 4.00pm
Location
Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, University of York Heslington West Campus
Event details
Speaker(s): Richard Smyth
Join writer Richard Smyth for a reading and discussion of his memoir, The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell.
Through different objects discovered on their wanderings – a beech leaf, a jay feather, a limpetshell – Smyth examines his own past as well as that of the early natural historians, weaving together history, memoir, and environmentalism to form a new kind of nature writing: one that asks both what we have lost, and what we have yet to find.
A Writers at York event.