A collection of new work by poet and performer Patience Agbabi. Patience was The Brontë Society’s Writer-in-Residence in 2018, and these poems were commissioned to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Brontë.
The issues explored in Emily’s Papers are rooted in the 21st century: issues such as identity, heritage and ‘otherness’. Patience describes how each poem ‘sprung out of a certain phrase’ in Wuthering Heights and the resulting collection is a fresh, lively and accessible re-examining of Emily’s famous novel.