All Down Darkness Wide
A Memoir
A luminous memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a tender exploration of queer identity.<BR><BR>'Beautiful' Colm Tóibín<BR>'Rapturous' New York Times<BR>'Extraordinary' Observer<BR>'Stunning' Sunday Times<BR><BR>When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face to face with crisis.<BR><BR>Wrestling with this, Seán Hewitt delves deep into his own history, enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a nineteenth-century cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg, Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope.<BR><BR>All Down Darkness Wide is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal, and a fearless exploration of a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.<BR><BR>WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR IRISH LITERATURE 2022<BR><BR>'Extraordinarily beautiful... the best new work of non-fiction I've read in years' Sarah Perry<BR><BR>'Rigorous and sensual... Hewitt has forged a life-enhancing memoir' Spectator
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