Seán Hewitt

TWO BOYS MEET. EVERYTHING CHANGES. THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. As he contends with the expectations of his family, his burgeoning desire - an ache for autonomy, tenderness and sex - threatens to unravel his shy exterior. Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome, charismatic and impulsive, he has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a nearby farm. Luke comes with a reputation for danger, but underneath his bravado lie anxieties and hopes of his own. With the passing seasons, the two teenagers grow closer and the bond that emerges between them transforms their lives. James falls deeply for Luke, yet he is never sure of Luke's true feelings. And as the end of summer nears, he has a choice to make - will he risk everything for the possibility of love?

Keď Seán stretne Eliasa, bezhlavo sa do seba zamilujú. Idylka však netrvá dlho a spoločne sa musia vyrovnať s Eliasovou ťažkou depresiou. Pár je nútený čeliť osudovej skúške. Autofikcia írskeho básnika Seána Hewitta je odvážnou úvahou nad bremenom existencie vo svete, v ktorom šťastné prežívanie kvír vzťahov nie je ani zďaleka samozrejmosťou. Čo všetko láska vydrží a čo už nie? pýta sa Hewitt vo svojom prozaickom debute a zároveň sa ponára hlboko do osobnej histórie plnej vášne i temna. Kniha v roku 2022 získala Rooneyho cenu pre írsku literatúru. Vydanie knihy z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia, ktorý je hlavným partnerom projektu. Preklad tejto knihy vychádza s podporou Literature Ireland.

Keď Seán stretne Eliasa, bezhlavo sa do seba zamilujú. Idylka však netrvá dlho a spoločne sa musia vyrovnať s Eliasovou ťažkou depresiou. Pár je nútený čeliť osudovej skúške. Autofikcia írskeho básnika Seána Hewitta je odvážnou úvahou nad bremenom existencie vo svete, v ktorom šťastné prežívanie kvír vzťahov nie je ani zďaleka samozrejmosťou. Čo všetko láska vydrží a čo už nie? pýta sa Hewitt vo svojom prozaickom debute a zároveň sa ponára hlboko do osobnej histórie plnej vášne i temna. Kniha v roku 2022 získala Rooneyho cenu pre írsku literatúru. Vydanie knihy z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia, ktorý je hlavným partnerom projektu. Preklad tejto knihy vychádza s podporou Literature Ireland.

In this remarkable second collection, Seán Hewitt describes a journey haunted by love, loss and estrangement - from one of the Sunday Times 30 under 30 in Ireland 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 and broken, and where the split self of the speaker is interrupted by a series of ghosts, memories and encounters. Following the reciprocal relationship between queer sexuality and the natural world that he explored in Tongues of Fire, 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. A threnody for what is lost, a dance of apocalypse and rebirth, Rapture’s Road draws 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.

Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enough For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first time, forty of the most exhilarating queer tales in the classical canon and bring them newly to life. A ground-breaking anthology that changes the way we see the ancient world - and invites us to reflect on the puritanism of our own - 300,000 Kisses is a riotous celebration of desire in all its forms.