The Jay, The Beech, and the Limpetshell

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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.