Speech and poetry are fundamentally rooted in the ecosystem—

the detritus of fallen leaves, the curvature of a river bend, and the sound of rain on a heron’s wings. When we speak or write poetry that engages these voices we become participant in the patterns of the watershed.

About the Press

About the Press

Hiraeth Press is a pub­lisher with a mis­sion.

Poetry is the lan­guage of the Earth — not just poems but the slow flap of a heron’s wings across the sky, the light­ning of its beak hunting in the shallow water; autumn leaves and the smooth course of water over stones and gravel. These, as much as poems, com­mu­ni­cate the being and meaning of things. Our pub­li­ca­tions are all poetry, whether they are poems or non­fic­tion, and reflect the ideal that falling in love with the Earth is nothing short of rev­o­lu­tionary and that through our rela­tion­ship to wild nature we can birth a more enlight­ened vision of life for the future. We are pas­sionate about poetry as a means of returning the human voice to the poly­phonic chorus of the wild.

Written River

Written River

Written River is a lit­erary journal pub­lished bi-​​annually by Hiraeth Press which focuses on poetry and non-​​fiction prose exploring nature and our rela­tion­ship to it.  Published on the Summer and Winter Solstices in dig­ital format, we strive to encourage the dis­ci­pline of eco-​​poetics and return the voice of the poet to the body of the Earth.  Eco-​​poetics is poetry in which the energy of the ecosystem flows through the poem, cre­ating a written river of words which ebbs with the cre­ativity of the entire Earth com­mu­nity.  Written River marks the con­flu­ence of many streams and many voices as they flow back into the nour­ishing ground of the water­shed.

Our Titles

Our Titles

We pub­lish a range of poetry and non­fic­tion ded­i­cated to exploring our rela­tion­ship with the earth. Our titles reflect our mis­sion to par­tic­i­pate in the re-​​creation of our cul­ture in full par­tic­i­pa­tion with the earth com­mu­nity. Our non­fic­tion titles rep­re­sent a diver­sity of per­spec­tives on the topic of ecology, spir­i­tu­ality, and place-​​based lit­er­a­ture. Each of our poetry col­lec­tions, in their own way, ask “what use  are poets in times of need?” answering in voices of rivers and stones. Our books are food: come browse our col­lec­tion and nourish your­self.