Location—where we are, where we are going, where we have been—has never been more important to us than in this year. This year of stay-at-home, …
HIRAETH: A Letter from the Editor
Ugly, Lovely Town
On Reading Dylan Thomas Away from Home It is summer and I am nine. My father and grandfather have driven me up to the valley. …
Location and Addiction
A while ago, whilst reading about the opioid crisis in America, I came across a recent discovery about the relationship between drug use and location. …
a witness, the passing of time.
Uncomfortable chairs, couches you can melt into, cold kitchen floors, colorful wooden doors, narrow alleyways, blind street corners, open highways, towns, cities, countries, continents, galaxies. …
Hysteria is derived from the Greek of ‘Belonging to the Womb’ – Pockets of Marginalisation and Locating the Needs of the Forgotten
On September 29th, at around 2.30 or so (I know it was then because lunch was done and yet dinner was still far off), I …
This Living, Breathing House of Death
I was having lunch at my grandparents’ house when I was around 14. I remember it being a Sunday lunch, with chicken and lots of …
Looking on the Cuillin, Skye.
Clouds billow around the mountain topsFine, gossamer as smokeAs if the heights they reach are notRock formations or fragments of giant Earth moulding substance,But a pot, …
Outsiders
A strained tension pervades every corner of my home. As Christmas preparations begin earlier and earlier every year, tinsel replacing cobwebs in the local supermarkets …
On belonging
Living in four different countries before the age of six years old has warped my perception of what it is to have a home. Considering …
I’ve always loved the seaside view
I like to think these wounds that time has cauterised, reveal, in perfect preservation evidence of lives that have passed through you. But the rubble …