{"product_id":"9781787334274-raptures-road","title":"Rapture's Road","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the author of All Down Darkness Wide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 30 under 30 in Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Points to a bright future for Irish poetry' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet' \u003c\/b\u003eMAX PORTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Amazing writing of breathtaking power'\u003c\/b\u003e IRVINE WELSH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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 into 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFollowing the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in \u003ci\u003eTongues of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA threnody for what is lost, a dance of apocalypse and rebirth, \u003ci\u003eRapture’s Road \u003c\/i\u003edraws 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 reawakening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271094018145,"sku":"9781787334274","price":10.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32276869.jpg?v=1737781493","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781787334274-raptures-road","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}