A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love heartbreak and
coming of age and a fearless exploration of queer identity and trauma. 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. 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.
