This is Siân Killingsworth's inaugural chapbook, rich in sophistication yet vulnerable of heart. This is a beautiful book both with its varied verse of longing, loss, and defiance and also with its sewn binding, making this book a treasure.
"Hiraeth" is a Welsh word that captures the sense of loss and of nostalgia for some place or time that may never have actually existed: a grief for our soul's past.
Rebecca Foust writes, "You’ll find authenticity here, as well as artistry and mystery. The voice is authentic and vulnerable, and the grief it wrings from these lines is for us all." José Hernandez Diaz says, "Rich, intricate imagery reigns throughout this memorable chapbook as the speaker navigates a world of grieving, social conformity and unrelenting memory."
