Talks

WORDS BY THE WATER, KESWICK 7 MARCH 2020

Marie-Elsa Bragg Unsent Letters - A Daughter's Love 7 11.00am | Main House £11.00 When Marie-Elsa Bragg was just six years old, her mother committed suicide. Now, many years later, Marie-Elsa returns to that night. Going back to that moment, inhabiting this defining...

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FAVERSHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL 23 FEBRUARY 2020

The suicide of Melyvn Bragg's first wife, when Marie-Elsa was just six years old, cast a long shadow that forged an unbreakable bond between father and daughter. Now, many years later, Marie-Elsa returns to that night. In a unique mix of prose and poetry, written...

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BLOXHAM LITERARY FESTIVAL 22 FEBRUARY 2020

Sleeping Letters Marie-Elsa Bragg joins us to speak about her new book, Sleeping Letters - a description of the ritual of the Eucharist alongside a compilation of poetry, memoir and fragments of un-sent letters. The readings from the book will be complemented by music...

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TOPPINGS BOOKSHOP, BATH 3 FEBRUARY 2020

"This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body. It is poetry as a kind of dance. You have to read it, " Edmund de Waal. Marie-Elsa Bragg is an author, a priest in the diocese of London, therapist, a spiritual director and...

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