The High Flight: 50 Poems Inspired by Emily Brontë’s Hawk is a poetry collection by Emma Conally-Barklem that draws inspiration from the legend of Emily Brontë’s beloved hawk, Nero. Through fifty poems, the book explores the wildness, imagination, and emotional intensity associated with Brontë’s world, blending literary homage with a strong sense of nature and place.
‘By turns mythic, soaring, earthbound and unyielding, this collection is a dazzling addition to the Brontë canon.’
Karen Powell, author of Fifteen Wild Decembers
‘A truly astonishing collection bristling with piercing insight and originality- this is Conally-Barklem at the height of her powers’
Sharon Wright, journalist and Brontë biographer
‘One of the most interesting British poets working today’
Graham Watson, author of The Invention of Charlotte Brontë
I sat in the front row of the audience who had come to see Emma launch her marvellous new collection ‘The High Flight’ at The Parsonage in Haworth early in May. I was slightly in awe of the venue, knowing I was first up to read one of my poems, and also knowing from past experience that although slightly scary to be the first, once it was done I could relax into the evening, enjoy Emma’s poems and hear how her book came to be.
And that’s exactly how it was.
The boldness and intelligence of Emma’s writing, her natural and confident reading, made for a fabulous event.
At the end seeing that she was surrounded by friends and fans we bought some copies of her book and crept away, driving through a summer Brontë landscape to Leeds and home,
PS: Beg, borrow or buy a copy of this astonishing book. My own signed copy turned up in the post a few days later. Bliss!
