WINNER OF THE LAUREL PRIZE 2021 A SPECTATOR AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES / UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY EMERGING WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021A remarkable first collection by an important new poetIn this collection, Sen 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 poets 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.

Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: DCF; Weight: 226 g; Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 5

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