wild words & re-enchanted writing

AUTHOR: Daniel Hill

(be)longing: cynefin / hiraeth is a poetic exploration of Welsh identity, place and myth. Moving between personal reflection and cultural enquiry, the chapbook traces the tension between cynefin - a deep sense of belonging to land and community - and hiraeth - a longing for home that may be distant, lost or imagined. Written from the perspective of a Welsh writer living in England, the poems weave together landscape, language, folklore and memory to consider what it means to be Welsh in the modern world. Drawing on the rich mythic traditions of Cymru while questioning and recontextualising them, (be)longing invites readers into an intimate conversation about heritage, displacement and the enduring power of story to shape our relationship with place.

(be)longing is part of our chapbook series, emerging from the older tradition. Chapbooks were traditionally printed and sold between the 17th and 19th centuries and took the form of a small printed booklet, usually containing a selection of poetry or fiction. The aim was to make literature affordable and accessible. You can read more about them here.

This A5 chapbook will be printed in the UK on 100% recycled paper using vegetable-based inks. Pre-order now for the second print run, delivered late August.

AUTHOR: Annemarie Reichenbach

to: those who feel for place and the disappearance of it; those who seek their path between caring for self and other

from: a few square kilometres of East German fields and forests around winter

This is an intimate invitation for those grieving shifts and turns while still witnessing what remains—there, but not quite as it was. This is a dreaming-into how my brother's life can also be a collective story, seeking permission and understanding while longing to build it. 

In my twenties, I witnessed my brother’s life take a different route, while the way we experienced seasons shifted and our childhood forest disappeared. These noticings seek community on the page and hope to extend empathy beyond it, offering radical permission to honour both loss and hope, to inhabit the both/and while orienting within nature’s cycles. It asks what it means to be kin with inner and outer landscapes amid ambiguous loss, and how to relearn what it means to be alive and a sister in this current world. The chapbook became a letter that could not be sent— an invitation to hold disappearance and devotion, devastation and care, all at once.

Arrive Astray is part of our chapbook series, emerging from the older tradition. Chapbooks were traditionally printed and sold between the 17th and 19th centuries and took the form of a small printed booklet, usually containing a selection of poetry or fiction. The aim was to make literature affordable and accessible. You can read more about them here.

This A5 chapbook is printed in the UK on 100% recycled paper using vegetable-based inks.

AUTHOR: REBECCA FIELD

The landscape makes time-travellers of us all. Ritual landscapes, especially, carry a weight of prolonged significance that we are hardwired to notice. Silvestris explores the intersection between the wild, the ancient, and the made, as it unearths the histories and mythologies that lie beneath the topsoil at one such site. Centred around a prehistoric ritual complex at Uley in rural Gloucestershire, this debut collection captures moments of the site’s history from the Carboniferous to the Anthropocene, considering the relationship between humanity, the stasis of place, and the movement of time. It re-animates the finds uncovered from the multiple excavations across the complex, imagining the voices and the stories of the people who lived, worked, and worshipped here.

“Sometimes a place gets in your bones, and stays.”

Silvestris is part of our 2025 chapbook series, emerging from the older tradition. Chapbooks were traditionally printed and sold between the 17th and 19th centuries and took the form of a small printed booklet, usually containing a selection of poetry or fiction. The aim was to make literature affordable and accessible. You can read more about them here.

This A5 chapbook is printed in the UK on 100% recycled paper using vegetable-based inks.

AUTHOR: MIRIAM MASON

Through an exploration of the colour blue and the characters of birds, Beyond the Blue journeys through the themes of emergence, hope and self-renewal.  Drawing inspiration from Welsh myth, this collection of poetry weaves together family, freedom and empowerment, and encourages the reader to face the many versions of self, whilst also embracing the unknown.

This chapbook is part of our 2025 series. Chapbooks were traditionally printed and sold between the 17th and 19th centuries and took the form of a small printed booklet, usually containing a selection of poetry or fiction. The aim was to make literature affordable and accessible. You can read more about them here. This chapbook emerges from the older tradition.

Watch Miriam read a selection of these poems aloud in the online launch for Beyond the Blue here.

This 40-page A5 chapbook is printed in the UK on 100% recycled paper using vegetable-based inks.