Céad míle fáilte, a hundred thousand welcomes to H A G! I’m Ali Isaac, and this email comes to you from the intersection of female senescence and Irish landscape, both mythical and natural. My book, Imperfect Bodies, will be published by Héloïse Press in the spring of 2026.

My writing is mostly free, but I sometimes send extra little gift-posts to paid subscribers.

So here we are at the beginning of Brigid’s season, and it’s cold with cloud down to the ground and torrential rain here in Cavan. It’...