Seán Hewitt Bücher

Eine Hymne auf die Überwältigung, die es bedeutet, jung zu sein James steht an einer Schwelle, bald ist er erwachsen. Und er träumt von einem anderen Leben weit weg: das Dorf hinter sich lassen, die Eltern enttäuschen, dem allen endlich irgendwas Lebendiges, Echtes entgegensetzen. Denn hier in verschlafenen Thornmere im Norden Englands bleibt immer alles beim Alten, seine Runde als Milchjunge, die Gottesdienste, die ewigen Sorgen um seinen kranken kleinen Bruder, die Ausgrenzung der Mitschüler. Doch dann trifft James im Herbst 2002 auf Luke – ein Jahr älter, unverschämt gutaussehend, von seinen verkrachten Eltern zur Disziplinierung aufs Land verschickt – und im Laufe eines Jahres liefert sich James neuen, unkontrollierbaren Kräften aus, einer Sehnsucht, die ihn für immer verändern, einer Frage, die ihn sein Leben lang verfolgen wird: Würde ich alles riskieren für die Möglichkeit der Liebe? Ein poetischer Roman über das Verlangen der Jugend, über die Zärtlichkeiten, Albträume und Illusionen namens Liebe. Mit den beeindruckenden sprachlichen Mitteln eines großen Dichters bestimmt Seán Hewitt das Gewicht unserer Obsessionen.

A remarkable first collection by an important new poetIn this collection, Sean Hewitt gives us poems of a rare musicality and grace. 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.

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope. All Down Darkness Wide is an unflinching meditation on the burden of living in a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds, and a tender portrayal of what it's like to be caught in the undertow of a loved one's suffering. By turns devastating and soaring, it is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal, and a work of rare and transcendent beauty.

For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world has either been ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few narratives are widely known: the wild romance of Achilles and Patroclus; the yearning love of Sappho’s lyrics; and the three genders introduced in Plato’s Symposium. Yet there is a rich literary tradition of queer Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond the prudish translations of these familiar handful of stories. In 300,000 Kisses, award-winning poet Seán Hewitt and renowned designer Luke Edward Hall collect these stories—including some of the most beautiful and moving in the classical canon—and bring them to vivid life. Alongside celebrated works by Homer, Sappho, Ovid and Catullus, they include a wide range of rarely anthologized sources: raunchy poems, thoughtful dialogues, philosophical treatises, and even a graffiti text salvaged from the ruins of Pompeii. Through Hewitt’s contemporary translations and Hall’s vibrant illustrations, we encounter relationships that are by turns heartfelt and nourishing, unrequited and lustful, toxic and crude, tender and fulfilling. A groundbreaking anthology that seeks to change the way we see the ancient world, 300,000 Kisses is a fascinating journey through love in all its forms.

The second poetry collection from the author of All Down Darkness Wide and the winner of the 2022 Rooney Prize 'He's an exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet' MAX PORTER, author of SHY 'Nothing seems beyond him' SUNDAY TIMES This is a haunted journey through love, loss and estrangement. 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 through 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 through 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 re-awakening.