
A seasoned adoptee's voice welcomes you to prose and verse spanning memory, identity, belonging, loss, and becoming. Adoptee Memoirs, Seasonal image and prose poems, Haiga, vignettes, and nostalgia. Two novellas written under Islay Corwin.
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Welcome to Through the Yew Hedge, a lyrical work of magical realism infused with gothic atmosphere, botanical lore, and the disquiet of hidden histories.
About the Story
At the Silverton Estate, a secluded world of cedar groves, hid...
Adoptees may yearn for the memory of what was lost. The ancestry, the past that came before us. The safety before the severing. We grieve before the returning. Or that we cannot return unless we have the key.
There was a time when I tended...
Hello!
Now that both novellas are available widely in e-book; soon to be appearing in print, most of the twelve serialized episodes from Through the Yew Hedge are being archived.
Remaining “Behind the Hedge:” Prologue, Silverton Founda...
Hello and Welcome!
Essays on botanical history, Celtic mythology, and adoption themes follow in this space.
The Crow is messenger between garden and the wild. Between earth and sky. Between what is seen and unseen. Observant, noticing...
by Islay Corwin
PROLOGUE
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild with a faery, hand in hand." -- William Butler Yeats, “The Stolen Child”
The Foretelling
Under...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Memoirs and Essays, 'I Must Have Wandered: An Adopted Air Force Daughter Recalls', 'Neither Here Nor There.' Writing fiction under Islay Corwin, 'Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic,' Through the Iron Gate: The Rosemere Records.'
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