Rapture's Road
  • Published: 16 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781787334274
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $32.99
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Rapture's Road

from the author of All Down Darkness Wide

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In this remarkable second collection, Seán 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, Seán 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.
  • Published: 16 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781787334274
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Seán Hewitt

Sean Hewitt was born in 1990 and read English at the University of Cambridge. He is a fiction reviewer for the Irish Times and a Leverhulme Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin. He won a Northern Writers' Award in 2016, the Resurgence Prize in 2017 and an Eric Gregory Award in 2019.

portrait photo of Seán Hewitt

Also by Seán Hewitt

300,000 Kisses
All Down Darkness Wide
Tongues of Fire
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Praise for Rapture's Road

An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet, reverential in nature and gorgeously wise in the field of human drama

Max Porter, author of Shy

Hewitt’s words indubitably penetrate, with Nerudian passion and force

Guardian

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 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

A poet unafraid of the simply gorgeous… The undaunted vitality of these poems points to a bright future for Irish poetry

Sunday Times