About the Event
Over a lunch hour, Faber’s poetry editor Lavinia Greenlaw will guide you through a reading of a poem by Emily Dickinson, one of our best-known poets. You’ll be given a list of resources for later exploration, but this event will be a live encounter, showing you how to find a way into any poem and how a poem might come to meet you. You’ll be given a print-out to annotate.
For this session, Lavinia has selected Emily Dickinson’s ‘I heard a Fly buzz – when I died -’.
We hope that these sessions will be a stimulating way to spend your lunch hour in the company of other poetry lovers. Each session will run from 1.00 – 1.50 p.m. at The Bindery. You’ll also have the opportunity to visit the Members Cart, our monthly pop-up bookshop laden with books and literary gifts, which will be open until 4 p.m.
Whatto Expect
- This event is taking place at Faber’s headquarters at The Bindery, 51 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN.
- The nearest underground stations are Chancery Lane Station (Central line) and Farringdon Station (Circle, Elizabeth, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines).
- Age guidance: 18+
- Doors will open at 12.45 p.m. and the event will end at approximately 1.50 p.m.
- There will be a bookshop open with books available by card payment only.
- A concessionary rate of £5 off tickets is available for anyone who is a student, unemployed, low-waged, low-pensioned or who considers the cost of the event a barrier to attending. Use code Concession5 in the promo box in the checkout.
- The Bindery is fully accessible, but if you’ve any questions or concerns about accessibility, please contact us by emailing [email protected].
- Ticket buyers requiring assistance at the event can get a free ticket for a carer by emailing [email protected].
- This is a ticketless event - there will be a guest list with your name and the number of tickets you've bought.
About the Author
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Amherst, Massachussetts, where she lived most of her life as a recluse, seldom leaving the house or receiving visitors. She published just a handful of poems in her lifetime, her first collection appearing posthumously in 1890.
Emily DickinsonAbout the Author
Buy the Book
The Complete Poems is the only one-volume edition containing all of Emily Dickinson’s verse.