{"id":5049,"date":"2023-04-20T08:43:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2023-04-21T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T13:20:04","slug":"a-bird-in-the-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"A bird in the hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Monty Lit Fest is delighted to welcome back local poet, writer and painter, Frieda Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>Following last year\u2019s sell-out appearance, Frieda will be joining the Festival on the <a href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4462\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">afternoon of Saturday 10<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/a> to tell us all about her new book, <em>George: A Magpie <\/em>Memoir. It\u2019s the story of her relationship with George, who grows from a scrap of magpie feathers and bone, the sole survivor of a nest destroyed in a storm, into an intelligent and unruly companion \u2013 and what happens when the time comes to set him free.<\/p>\n<p>Frieda is not the only author looking at our relationship with birds at this year\u2019s event. Just before Frieda, <a href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jasmine Donahaye<\/a> will be sharing the stage with Gwen Davies, editor of <em>New Welsh Review<\/em>, to discuss her book, <em>Birdsplaining<\/em>. It\u2019s the chance to hear how Jasmine\u2019s collection of essays asks searching questions about our relationship to the natural world and to one another &#8211; along with wider questions about the nature of nature writing itself.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll also be returning to the natural world on the afternoon of Sunday 11<sup>th<\/sup> June with three sessions that look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relationship between town and country<\/a>, the lives of <a href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">working people<\/a> who have shaped the countryside and how to <a href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=4540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balance the needs of farming and conservation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are now on sale now &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketlab.co.uk\/events\/montylitfest#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a> or in person at The Montgomery Bookshop and Ivy House Caf\u00e9 in Montgomery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Monty Lit Fest is delighted to welcome back local poet, writer and painter, Frieda Hughes. 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It\u2019s the story of her relationship with George, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?p=5049\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bird in the hand<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[72],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-5049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monty-lit-fest-2023","tag-monty-lit-fest-literary-festival-birds-birdwatching-nature-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.1 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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