Rapture's Road by Seán Hewitt Ira Lightman It is a perfect irony

It is a perfect irony that a boy who grew up unable to say his name became a poet with such a compelling and wonderful voice

and charged with an unmistakable longing

and the continued tragedies visited upon Black bodies whilst these legacies remain unresolved

– by one of the greatest poets of all time

Rapture's Road by Seán Hewitt Ira Lightman It is a perfect ironyIn this remarkable second collection, Sen Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland' An exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet' MAX PORTER, author of Shy As 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