AUTHOR & ACTIVIST, JAY GRIFFITHS - 'HOW ANIMALS HEAL US'
5 JUNE 2025, 7.30PM
DOORS OPEN 7.00
BAR AND REFRESHMENTS
VENUE: Y TABERNACL, MOMA, MACHYNLLETH
It has been a real pleasure to arrange the major Welsh launch of
‘How Animals Heal Us’
on its publication date
in partnership with publishers, Hamish Hamilton and the Friends of Y Tabernacl, MoMA, Machynlleth
And following Jay Griffiths’s appearance on
23 May
at this year’s Hay Festival
Author and activist, Jay Griffiths
Jay will be in conversation with writer, award winning author and Patron of Friends of Y Tabernacl, MoMA,
Mike Parker, to share stories from her new book, in which she draws on Indigenous knowledge, scientific discoveries and history to explore how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective.
In this original, revelatory and exuberant book, Jay Griffiths explores how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective, guiding us in how we might create societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder. Wolves may be teachers of ethics; monkeys and dogs can object to unfairness and bees take collective decisions. Animals are irresistible medicine for a healthy culture, animating the arts with spectacular vitality and verve, as poetry knows.
Mike Parker, author of All the Wide Border, On the Red Hill, Map Addict
“Readers will need no persuading as to the literary talent of Jay Griffiths. Over her dazzling and immensely varied writing career, she has written books of great beauty, but enormous importance too. ‘How Animals Heal Us’ is vintage Jay, a breathtaking tour of world cultures and history, a passionate love letter to nature and the animal kingdom, and an urgent rallying cry for a better planet.
She has a clear, eloquent and utterly unique voice, and it will be such a pleasure to hear it in Machynlleth.”
Jay Griffiths is the author of many books, including, Wild: An Elemental Journey; Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape; Tristimania; Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time. She won the Discover award for the best first-time author in the USA; the inaugural Orion award and the Hay Festival International Fellowship.
Jay has broadcast and written widely, on subjects such as Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades, including from Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall and Nikolai Fraiture.
https://www.jaygriffiths.com/about