Tongues of Fire by Hewitt, Seán
Tongues of Fire by Hewitt, Seán

Tongues of Fire

** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 ****A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**...
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Author: Seán Hewitt
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Tongues of Fire by Hewitt, Seán

Tongues of Fire

$246.53
Tongues of Fire by Hewitt, Seán

Tongues of Fire

$246.53
Author: Seán Hewitt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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** 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, Seán 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.

Author: Seán Hewitt
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 08/01/2020
Pages: 64
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781787332263

About the Author
Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author the poetry collection Tongues of Fire, which was awarded the Laurel Prize, 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. He is the recipient of a Northern Writers' Award, the Resurgence Prize, and an Eric Gregory Award. Hewitt is a book critic for the Irish Times and teaches Modern British and Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin.
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