Jay Griffiths

Author Jay Griffiths has written a number of books including Anarchipelaga and the award-winning Pip Pip, A Sideways Look at Time. She has also written for the Guardian, broadcasted widely on BBC Radio, is a regular columnist for Orion magazine and has written frequently for The Idler, as well as contributing to The Observer, the Ecologist and the London Review of Books.

Jay will be hosting an evening of music and readings, ‘Song Lines of West Papua’, alongside West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda.

Her third book, Wild: An Elementary Journey, is an evocation of the songlines on earth, exploring the words and meanings that shape ideas of wildness. The book took her seven years to research and write and includes her visit to West Papua where she stayed with the freedom fighters.

“Wild is like nothing else I’ve ever read: thrilling, troubling, frightening, exhilarating. Jay Griffiths’ courage and energy are formidable, but so is her sheer intelligence and literary flair. This is a truly necessary book, and we are all lucky that the subject found a writer worthy of it.”
– Philip Pullman

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