Ep 65 - Wendy Pratt - Author of The Ghost Lake talks about writing, infertility and bereavement

Wendy Pratt is a poet, creative non fiction author and editor living on the North Yorkshire coast.

In this episode we talk about navigating the loss of her daughter, infertility, the sense of not belonging, nature and her journey as a working class writer.

Her non fiction nature/landscape memoir The Ghost Lake, was long listed for the Nan Shepherd prize in 2021. The Ghost Lake is inspired by paleolake Flixton, an extinct lake in North Yorkshire.

In the book Wendy brings the reader on a pilgrimage around the ghost lake, to locations that have acted as journey markers in her own life. While traversing forests and fenland, she reflects on the process of finding belonging in nature as a woman who exists in a series of liminal spaces – as a working-class writer, an infertile woman in a fertile world and a bereaved mother in a society focused on children.

Link to purchase the Ghost Lake here: THE GHOST LAKE

Wendy is the author of six poetry collections including When I Think of My Body as a Horse. Her next collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk will be published by Nine Arches Press in 2024.

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You can find out more about Wendy Pratt and her work

Website: https://wendyprattauthor.com

Instagram: @wendycat1978

Twitter: @wondykitten

Buy her Book: The Ghost Lake

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