Femina Culpa

With Milena Williamson, Linda McKenna, Emma McKervey and Kelly Creighton

Femina Culpa poetry collective present readings and discussions of their individual poetry collections featuring stories of 19th-Century women involved in criminal court cases.

Kelly Creighton’s pamphlet, Unbecoming, is about the true crime case of the Staten Island witch, Polly Bodine.

Emma McKervey’s Highland Boundary Fault (Turas Press, 2024) investigates her great grandparents whose love letters between Greenock and the Outer Hebrides were intercepted, resulting in a Sheriff’s court case.

Linda McKenna’s Four Thousand Keys (Doire Press, 2024) explores the case of Elizabeth Dunham, tried in the Old Bailey for the theft of 4000 keys to public buildings and sent down to Bedlam.

Milena Williamson’s Into the Night that Flies so Fast (Dedalus Press, 2024) examines the life and death of Bridget Cleary who was murdered by her family on suspicion of being a fairy changeling.

You may also like the following events from Seamus Heaney HomePlace:

• Next Wednesday, 20th August, 10:30 am, Open Ground Experience in Magherafelt
• Next Thursday, 21st August, 02:00 pm, Gary Lightbody in Conversation with Jan Carson (MATINEE) in Magherafelt
• Next Thursday, 21st August, 07:30 pm, Gary Lightbody in Conversation with Jan Carson in Magherafelt

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