Rapture's Road

From the author of All Down Darkness Wide

Seán Hewitt

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JONATHAN CAPE
16 April 2024

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

In this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland

In this remarkable second collection, Sean Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland

'Hewitt's words penetrate with Nerudian passion and force' GUARDIAN

'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet' MAX PORTER

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.

Following the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in Tongues of Fire, 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.

A threnody for what is lost, a dance of apocalypse and rebirth, Rapture's Road 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.

By: Seán Hewitt
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9781787334274
ISBN 10: 1787334279
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 16 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sean Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of the poetry collection Tongues of Fire, which received the Laurel Prize and was shortlisted for many awards, including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, 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.

Reviews for Rapture's Road: From the author of All Down Darkness Wide

He's an exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet, reverential in nature and gorgeously wise in the field of human drama -- Max Porter, Irish Times *Best Books of 2020* (praise for TONGUES OF FIRE) Seán Hewitt soars... This is an astonishingly assured debut delivered in a poetic voice that has eloquence, compassion, and serenity in equal measure... nothing seems beyond him * Sunday Times, praise for TONGUES OF FIRE * Very accomplished poems -- Sebastian Faulks, praise for TONGUES OF FIRE This is an extraordinary collection - heart-bruising, tender - one to cherish, and live by... beyond-gorgeous, beyond-glorious, blood-felt, feral, luminous -- Fiona Benson, praise for TONGUES OF FIRE I fell in love with these wild, heartsore, ecstatic poems. Tongues of Fire is a beautiful book and Seán Hewitt is an extraordinary writer -- Liz Berry, praise for TONGUES OF FIRE Seán Hewitt understands that poetic form is sacred and mysterious. In these godforsaken times his reverent procedures are food for the soul -- Michael Longley, praise TONGUES OF FIRE