Hireath is the Welsh word you didn't know you needed

In her memoir, The Long Field: Wales and the Presence of
Absence, Pamela Petro unfurls the meaning of hireath —
a Welsh word that encompasses nostalgia, homesickness, and
longing — and dissects all that that the word has meant to her as
a gay woman, a creative writer, a daughter, a traveler and more.


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The Long Field is available from Book Depository

Pamela's website

Lesley's MFA in Creative Writing low-residency program



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