All Down Darkness Wide

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All Down Darkness Wide is a luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet Seán Hewitt. It's a story of love, heartbreak, and coming of age, alongside a fearless explorat ion of queer identity and trauma. When Seán meets Elias, the two fall headlong into a love story. However, as Elias struggles with severe depression, the couple comes face-to-face with crisis. 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. 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. Show more