Rapture's Road by Seán Hewitt Ira Lightman the poems in The Acts

the poems in The Acts of Oblivion vindicate Andrew McNeillie’s description of Batchelor as ‘the most accomplished poet of his generation’

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

where “light will fall out of our language”

Rapture's Road by Seán Hewitt Ira Lightman the poems in The ActsIn 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