Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
With tenderness and lyric grace, these poems listen deeply to the natural world—through immersion, attention, and wonder. They reveal fresh ways of reflecting, adapting, and inhabiting, celebrating the intricate entanglement of our bodies and beings with shifting landscapes and inner terrains: the shadowed woods, glittering rivers, windswept moors, and towering mountains.
There will be a book signing straight after the event.
Published by Peepal Tree Press.
Emily Zobel Marshall spent her childhood in a remote village in the mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales with her Black Caribbean mother and white English father. She is a Reader in Postcolonial Literature at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University. Emily is a fully qualified Mountain Leader.
Emily's research is informed by postcolonial theory and includes examinations of constructions of identity, race and racial politics and Caribbean carnival cultures. She is particularly interested in forms of cultural resistance and cross-cultural fertilisation in the face of colonialism.
Emily is an expert on the trickster figure in the folklore, oral cultures and literature of the African Diaspora and has published widely in these fields, including her books Anansi’s Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance (2012, University of the West Indies Press) and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit (2019, Rowman and Littlefield). She is also a published poet with two poetry collections published by Peepal Tree Press, Bath of Herbs (2019) and Other Wild (2025).
Emily is a qualified Mountain Leader and a Black Girls Hike Leader with research interests and publications in decolonising the countryside and The Black Outdoors.
