Amy Jeffs – Old Songs

DATE: Friday 5th June
TIME: 13:30 – 14:45
LOCATION: Monks Yard
DESCRIPTION
In “Old Songs” Amy Jeffs has fused short stories, histories, lyrics, and gorgeous illustrations by Gwen Burns, to create a rich compendium, singing of travel, mystery, magic and the essential urges of humanity. “Old Songs” threads a tapestry of Britain’s landscape, history and cultures. At the base of hills we can visit to this day, elf queens kidnap hapless poets and carry them through rivers of blood; at the foot of a tree whose offspring still stand in the forests of Northumberland, a girl mimes combing the hairless head of a dragon who was once her brother. Now, ten stories are gathered here, beautifully recreated and illustrated for modern readers from original manuscripts and early printed pamphlets.