Hireath is the Welsh word you didn't know you needed
Why We Write
English - February 15, 2022 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsBooks Arts Education writing authors university books literature interview lesley university higher education mfa creative writing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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 DepositoryPamela's websiteLesley's MFA in Creative Writing low-residency program