By Joshua Robinson – 

On Saturday 28th April, writer and naturalist Amy-Jane Beer will talk about her new book, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness, which won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing (2023). 

This event is in partnership with the Friends of Marsden Library. 

On New Year’s Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer’s friend Kate set out with a group to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her family and friends bereft and unmoored.

Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when close to rivers, setting her on a journey of natural, cultural, and emotional discovery. 

From West Country torrents to Levels and Fens, rocky Welsh canyons, the salmon highways of Scotland, and the chalk rivers of the Yorkshire Wolds, Amy-Jane follows springs, streams, and rivers to explore tributary themes of wildness and wonder, loss and healing, mythology and history, cyclicity and transformation. 

“A true masterpiece”  – Times Literary Supplemen.

Event Details:

• Date: Sunday 28th April
• Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm 
• Venue: Marsden Mechanics Hall, Peel Street, Marsden HD7 6BW 
• Tickets: £8 (£5 conc) free for University of Huddersfield staff and students & essential carers 
• Age guidance: 10+ (under 16s should be accompanied by an adult)

For access information, contact the venue on 01484 844687 

To book tickets, please visit: https://www.huddlitfest.org.uk/event/amy-jane-beer-the-flow/

About Dr Amy-Jane Beer:

Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a biologist, naturalist, and writer. She has worked for more than 20 years as a science writer and editor, contributing to more than 40 books on natural history.

Furthermore, Dr Amy-Jane Beer is a Country Diarist for The Guardian, a columnist for British Wildlife , and a feature writer for BBC Wildlife magazine, among others. Her book The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness won the 2023 James Cropper Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing. 

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