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Seán Hewitt & Sarah Perry: Rapture’s Road

Seán Hewitt & Sarah Perry: Rapture’s Road

Seán Hewitt’s new poetry collection <em>Rapture’s Road</em> follows hard on the heels of <em>Tongues of Fire</em> – the winner of the 2021 Laurel Prize – and the bestselling memoir <em>All Down Darkness Wide</em>. Like its predecessors, the collection confronts dark and difficult subject matter in startlingly beautiful lyric language, ‘exquisitely calm’ in the words of Max Porter. Hewitt read from the collection and was in conversation with Sarah Perry, author of <em>The Essex Serpent</em> and <em>Melmoth</em>, whose long-awaited new novel <em>Enlightenment</em> is coming out in May.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

London Review Bookshop Podcast

February 28, 202453m 31s

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Seán Hewitt’s new poetry collection Rapture’s Road follows hard on the heels of Tongues of Fire – the winner of the 2021 Laurel Prize – and the bestselling memoir All Down Darkness Wide. Like its predecessors, the collection confronts dark and difficult subject matter in startlingly beautiful lyric language, ‘exquisitely calm’ in the words of Max Porter. Hewitt read from the collection and was in conversation with Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, whose long-awaited new novel Enlightenment is coming out in May.

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