The Company of Owls with Polly Atkin

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Join us for an evening with Polly Atkin talking about her new book The Company of Owls.

Doors open at 7pm and the event starts at 7:30pm.

Free hot drinks will be available on arrival.

There will be an opportunity to buy books and get them signed afterwards.

£5 entry fee is redeemable against the price of the book. Should you wish to reserve a book please email us books@westwoodbooks.co.uk

Owls have been a long-time fascination for the acclaimed poet and non-fiction writer Polly Atkin. In her captivating new book, THE COMPANY OF OWLS, she has turned her sagacious and meditative poet's eye on the tawny owl, the most common owl in Britain, which live in the woods above the rented cottage where she lives in Grasmere, Cumbria. Polly calls them her neighbours. Each night, they come down to her cottage at dusk, calling out as night falls and they nest on the route of her daily walk, enabling her to observe a trio of owlets grow from fledglings to young adults in 2023.

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. 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.