AUTHOR, JAY GRIFFITHS - 'HOW ANIMALS HEAL US'
5 JUNE 2025, 7.30PM
DOORS OPEN 7.00 - BAR AND REFRESHMENTS
VENUE: Y TABERNACL, MOMA, MACHYNLLETH
Author and activist, Jay Griffiths
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.
On publication day, 5 June this year, we are launching Jay’s new book, How Animals Heal Us.
This especially celebratory event will be held at Y Tabernacl, MoMA, Machynlleth, where Jay will be in conversation with Y Tabernacl Friends’ Patron, author Mike Parker.
“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.”
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.
https://www.jaygriffiths.com/about