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.
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*
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*
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