Bøker av Emma Wood

Open Endings is a collection of poetry that explores the constant need and search for closure in a world where closure is just not always possible, especially in traumatic situations. It's about learning to make peace with the fragmented state of endings and to accept that being 'damaged' or feeling broken does not mean you aren't still perfectly functional; like a ruler snapped in two. Written over the course of a year, Open Endings almost functions as a diary detailing the process and journey of coming to terms with the past, the present, and the uncertainty of the future. The collection and its poetry contain biographical and fictional elements and remain in the order of which they were written (with the exception of a few part one and two poems). The choice was also made to keep poetry that was similar to other poems in the collection, as well as poems that seem to have less explicit depth than others, due to the way it serves to reflect the cyclical nature of healing and acceptance.

Mr Bennet's Bride by Emma Wood is set in the 1780s, 25 years before the novel Pride and Prejudice opens. The play concerns the ill-suited couple Mr and Mrs Bennet, portrayed with such humour in that famous novel, and examines how they met and decided to marry. When it debuted in 2014, at the Newcastle Theatre Company, its ticket sales were the third highest in the group's sixty year history.

This work is an account of the pioneering days of hydro-electricity in Scotland. It shows how each hydro project brought its own set of technical challenges, underlining the remarkable engineering achievements involved in bringing hydro-electric power to the wild glens of the Scottish Highlands.