Robert Macfarlane: Is A River Alive?
Sat 9 Aug 15:15 - 16:15
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).
Robert Macfarlane's radiant writing on nature, people, and place is in a class unto itself, and the Guardian has slated Is a River Alive? as the biggest publishing event of 2025. This passionate, perspective-shifting treatise revives the idea that rivers are living beings and should be treated as such. Macfarlane will discuss 'thirsty notebooks', rivers as co-authors, and writing his most personal and political book to date. Chaired by Cal Flyn.
Categories: Art & Culture, Climate & Environment, Non-fiction, Politics & Society
Tickets are pay what you can.
Sat 9 Aug 15:15 - 16:15
Live streaming from Edinburgh International Book Festival
This event will be held in our new first floor creative learning space (upstairs).
Robert Macfarlane's radiant writing on nature, people, and place is in a class unto itself, and the Guardian has slated Is a River Alive? as the biggest publishing event of 2025. This passionate, perspective-shifting treatise revives the idea that rivers are living beings and should be treated as such. Macfarlane will discuss 'thirsty notebooks', rivers as co-authors, and writing his most personal and political book to date. Chaired by Cal Flyn.
Categories: Art & Culture, Climate & Environment, Non-fiction, Politics & Society
Tickets are pay what you can.
Runtime: 1h 0m
Released: 2025
Released: 2025
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