Tongues of Fire - by Seán Hewitt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>** WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 **<br></b><br><b>**A <i>SPECTATOR </i>AND <i>IRISH TIMES</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**</b> <p/><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020**</b> <p/><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 2021**</b> <p/><b>**SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY EMERGING WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021**<br></b><br><b>A remarkable first collection by an important new poet</b> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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.' <p/>Paying close attention to altered states and the consolations and strangeness of the natural world, this is the first book from a major poet.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>I fell in love with these wild, heartsore, ecstatic poems. They lead us to deep, hushed places - in the woods and heaths, in our hearts and bodies - and unearth such tenderness and dark treasure. <i>Tongues of Fire</i> is a beautiful book and Seán Hewitt is an extraordinary writer. - Liz Berry -<br><br>Seán Hewitt understands that poetic form is sacred and mysterious. In these godforsaken times his reverent procedures are food for the soul. - Michael Longley -<br><br>This is an extraordinary collection - heart-bruising, tender - one to cherish, and live by. Though Hewitt moves us through anguish and destruction, love still glows; and in the dark undoings of these poems, decay lights the wildwood with its strange, ethereal foxfire. As Hewitt writes, it is hard to tell where heaven starts; I find it in these poems, which are beyond-gorgeous, beyond-glorious, blood-felt, feral, luminous. - Fiona Benson -<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Seán Hewitt</b> was born in 1990. He lectures in English literature at Trinity College Dublin, and is a Book Critic for <i>The Irish Times</i>. He won a Northern Writers' Award in 2016, the Resurgence Prize in 2017, and an Eric Gregory Award in 2019. <i>Tongues of Fire</i> (Cape, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry.
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