Kate Bush ‘honoured’ to pen Bronte tribute

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    Kate Bush has said it is an “honour” to pen a tribute for Emily Bronte.

    Forty years after releasing her hit single Wuthering Heights, inspired by the Haworth novelist’s classic, Bush is contributing to a monument to the Bronte sisters on the Yorkshire moors.

    She's one of four artists who have been asked to write messages about the sisters, along with Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, fellow poet Jackie Kay and author Jeanette Winterson.

    The four stones will form a trail between the family home in Haworth and the sisters' birthplace seven miles away in Thornton. They will be unveiled as part of Bradford Literature Festival on 7 July.

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