The Company of Owls

As the autumn nights draw in, join Polly Atkin in a nocturnal love song to the owls that surround her Lake District home - a stunning meditation on learning to listen in a world full of noise.

POLLY ATKIN (FRSL) is a poet and nonfiction writer. She has published three poetry pamphlets and two collections - Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017) and Much With Body (Seren: 2021). Her nonfiction includes Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband: 2021), a Barbellion-longlisted biography of Dorothy's later life and illness, and a memoir exploring place, belonging and disability, Some Of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Sceptre: 2023), which won the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year 2024 and has been longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2024. She works as a freelancer from her home in the English Lake District. In 2023 she and her partner took ownership of historic Grasmere bookshop Sam Read Bookseller.