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Nov 5, 2020 · Two poems by Seán Hewitt, from their debut collection Tongues of Fire, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Jan 10, 2023 · Seán Hewitt ‘Waking, close to morning but still a shuttered, metal dark in the room’ Two poems by Seán Hewitt from Tongues of Fire, shortlisted for the 2020 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
by Seán Hewitt. I broke my seal to find you. and light came out tonight. I held it in my mouth like a phoneme. and sang with my eyes tonight. I felt the hot white cinder of your crest, your blazon on my skin tonight. Enlist me, burn and brand me –. I am all locked noun tonight.
'If Keats's famous adage that beauty is truth rings false to modern ears, Seán Hewitt's collection of exquisite lyrics gives us hope. This debut manages to enchant the reader with poems that read almost as spells, prayers and incantations, paying an almost religious attention to the nature world. [...] vertiginous, dreamlike' - The Guardian.
Apr 23, 2020 · In Tree of Jesse, one of the longer poems, I am writing to my father: “my head/ already is haunted with you./ I have become a living afterlife.” The natural world is full of bodies, full of ...
Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. His debut collection, Tongues of Fire (Cape), won the Laurel Prize 2021 and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, 2020, and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, 2021. It was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Aug 11, 2021 · The memory of a Portuguese baroque altarpiece showing Christ’s genealogy as a tree, with Jesse at its root and the baby Jesus in Mary’s arms at its crown, becomes an image for the poet’s feelings about his father’s approaching death.
