** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ** **A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES
BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES /
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY
PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY EMERGING WRITER
OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** A remarkable first collection by an
important new poet In this collection, Sean Hewitt gives us poems
of a rare musicality and grace. By turns searing and meditative,
these are lyrics concerned with the matter of the world, its
physicality, but also attuned to the proximity of each moment, each
thing, to the spiritual. Here, there is sex, grief, and loss, but
also a committed dedication to life, hope and renewal. Drawing on
the religious, the sacred and the profane, this is a collection in
which men meet in the woods, where matter is corrupted and remade.
There are prayers, hymns, vespers, incantations, and longer poems
which attempt to propel themselves towards the transcendent. In
this book, there is always the sense of fragility allied with
strength, a violence harnessed and unleashed. The collection ends
with a series of elegies for the poet's father: in the face of
despair, we are met with a fierce brightness, and a reclamation of
the spiritual. 'This is when / we make God, and speak in his
voice.' Paying close attention to altered states and the
consolations and strangeness of the natural world, this is the
first book from a major poet.
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