Rapture's Road

A poet unafraid of the simply gorgeous… The undaunted vitality of these poems points to a bright future for Irish poetry * Sunday Times *
Stunning… Shot through with yearning and sacred imagery… Hewitt’s poetry is a hide and seek of the self. It reveals and conceals * Observer *
Rapture’s Road is amazing writing of breathtaking power. One of those poetry collections where, in the internet/AI era, you feel the bone-crunching, heart-scorching humanity in almost every sentence – Irvine Welsh * Guardian *
Hewitt’s words indubitably penetrate, with Nerudian passion and force * Guardian *
An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet, reverential in nature and gorgeously wise in the field of human drama – Max Porter, author of Shy
Rapture’s Road is that rare thing when it comes to second collections. Something which takes his debut Tongues of Fire’s natural elements and post-modern Romantic themes and fashions them into something wholly unique. Rapture’s Road is political without being hectoring, mystical without being detached, and wholly in hoc to a natural world in all its chaos, beauty, creativity and destruction * RTÉ *

Sean Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture’s Road, and a memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on 300,000 Kisses- Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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