JAY GRIFFITHS | Stay Where You Are

Stay Where You Are

Stay Where You Are is a year-long project in which four artists and writers pause to reflect on the appeal of the local

Jay Griffiths has, in her own words, "an instinctive loathing of enclosure". In 'Hearth: A Thesaurus of Home', however, she embraces the very confines that her work often leaves behind in its pursuit of the wider, wilder world outside. These meditations on the nature of 'home' shed a surprising and lyrical light on the environments we shape for ourselves, and which surround and sustain us.

Hearth: A Thesaurus of Home

Part 4: Sacred Hospitality

Jay Griffiths
December 10, 2014

Part 3: Seven Degrees of Homing

Jay Griffiths
July 15, 2014

Part 2: A Beggarly Account of Empty Boxes

Jay Griffiths
May 9, 2014

Part 1: Hearth: A Thesaurus of Home

Jay Griffiths
February 6, 2014

Jay Griffiths

About, Jay Griffiths
January 30, 2014

Jay Griffiths is the author of non-fiction works including Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape, and Wild: An Elemental Journey and fiction including A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, a short novel about Frida Kahlo. She won the Discover award for the best new non-fiction writer to be published in the USA. She has also been shortlisted for both the Orwell prize and for a World Book Day award and won the inaugural 2007 Orion Book Award in the USA. She lives in Wales.

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