Rapture's Road

<b>Seán Hewitt</b> was born in 1990. He is the author of the poetry collection <i>Tongues of Fire</i> which received the Laurel Prize and was shortlisted for many awards including the<i> </i>Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His memoir <i>All Down Darkness Wide</i> was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and for the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year and longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Polari Book Prize. Hewitt lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2022 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. <p><b>The second poetry collection from the author of <i>All Down Darkness Wide </i>and one of the <i>Sunday Times</i> '30 under 30' in Ireland<br><br>'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'</b><br>MAX PORTER author of <i>Shy</i><br><br><b>'His work will continue to be treasured long after our lifetimes'</b><br>DOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA author of <i>A Ghost in the Throat</i><br><br>In this remarkable second collection Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love loss and estrangement. As the mind wanders and becomes spectral these poems forge their own unique path through the landscape. The road Hewitt takes us on is a sleepwalk into the nightwoods a dream-state where nature is by turns regenerated and broken and where the split self of the speaker is interrupted by a series of ghosts memories and encounters.<br><br>Following the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in <i>Tongues of Fire</i> the poet conjures us here into a trance: a deep delirium of hypnotic hectic rapture where everything is called into question until a union is finally achieved – a union in nature with nature.<br><br>A threnody for what is lost a dance of apocalypse and rebirth <i>Rapture’s Road </i>draws us through what is hidden secret often forbidden to a state of ecstasy. It leads into the humid night through lethal love and grief and glimpses at the end of the journey a place of tenderness and reawakening.</p> <b>An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet</b> reverential in nature and gorgeously wise in the field of human drama <b>A writer whose work will continue to be treasured long after our lifetimes</b>. A wonder. <b>An extraordinary collection</b> - heart-bruising tender - <b>one to cherish and live by... beyond-gorgeous beyond-glorious</b> blood-felt feral luminous <b>Gorgeous and moving prose</b> that excavates the deep complexities of grief shame and love with a tenderness and lightness of touch that makes <b>the words sing</b> I fell in love with these wild heartsore ecstatic poems... A beautiful book and <b>Seán Hewitt is an extraordinary writer</b> <b>The best new work of non-fiction I've read in years</b> Intensely original... <b>Some of the most beautiful prose I've read in years</b> <p><b>The second poetry collection from the author of <i>All Down Darkness Wide </i>and the winner of the 2022 Rooney Prize<br><br>'He's an exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet'</b><br>MAX PORTER author of <i>SHY</i><br><br><b>'Nothing seems beyond him'</b><br><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br><br>This is a haunted journey through love loss and estrangement. As the mind wanders and becomes spectral these poems forge their own unique path through the landscape. The road Hewitt takes us on is a sleepwalk through the nightwoods a dream-state where nature is by turns regenerated and broken and where the split self of the speaker is interrupted by a series of ghosts memories and encounters.<br><br>Following the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in <i>Tongues of Fire</i> the poet conjures us here into a trance: a deep delirium of hypnotic hectic rapture where everything is called into question until a union is finally achieved - a union in nature <i>with</i> nature.<br><br>A threnody for what is lost a dance through apocalypse and rebirth <i>Rapture's Road</i> draws us through what is hidden secret often forbidden to a state of ecstasy. It leads into the humid night through lethal love and grief and glimpses at the end of the journey a place of tenderness and re-awakening.</p>