Kate Bush won't leave behind her Wuthering Heights with new Brontë art installation

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Ailis Brennan26 April 2018

Kate Bush will thank the inspiration for one of her most famous songs by contributing to an artwork dedicated to Emily Brontë and her writer sisters.

Bush is one of four women who will write a tribute to the Brontë sisters, which will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the singer-songwriter's hit single Wuthering Heights, which was inspired by the 1847 novel.

The artwork will be installed on the very “wiley, windy” Yorkshire moors on which Emily Brontë set Wuthering Heights, and will consist of a series of stones marking the route from the Brontë sisters’ birthplace to the family parsonage.

Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and Jeanette Winterson will also provide words that will be inscribed on the stones.

The project not only marks 40 years of the song, but more crucially the 200th anniversary of Emily Brontë’s birth.

The Brontë Stones will be opened on July 7 at a launch at Bradford Literature Festival - and we’re sure many Brontë and Bush fans will be Running Up That Hill to see them.

For more information, visit bradfordlitfest.co.uk

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