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Seán Hewitt FRSL (born 1990) is a poet, lecturer and literary critic. [1] . In 2023, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [2] Biography. Seán Hewitt was born in Warrington, UK, to an Irish mother and English father. [3] . He studied English at Girton College, Cambridge. [4][5]
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Seán Hewitt is a poet, memoirist, novelist and literary critic. His debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award.
Oct 4, 2022 · The poet Seán Hewitt begins his memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, with a remarkable description of how St. James’s Cemetery in Liverpool became a place for men to meet for anonymous sex...
Apr 23, 2020 · Books. Seán Hewitt: I would give all my poems to have my father back. My father died the day I signed the contract for my book Tongues of Fire. Seán Hewitt on Tongues of Fire: The fungus is...
Jul 9, 2022 · Seán Hewitt: The day I realised my blood was not my own. Ghosts from the past are the guiding lights of All Down Darkness Wide, a gothic memoir. Expand. All Down Darkness. Seán Hewitt. Sat...
Haunted by the rites of Catholicism and spectres of shame, it is nevertheless marked by an insistent search for beauty. Hewitt captures transcendent moments in nature with exquisite lyricism, honours the power of reciprocated desire and provides a master class in the incredible force of unsparing specificity.
'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.
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.
I am a poet, writer and literary critic. My first collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape, 2020), was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won The Laurel Prize in 2021. My second collection of poems is Rapture’s Road (Jonathan Cape, 2024).
