{"id":5069,"date":"2022-10-27T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:52:04","slug":"sean-hewitt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/sean-hewitt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Barn Owls in Suffolk<\/span>Se\u00e1n Hewitt<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watch them for a long while,<\/p>\n

the pair rising and courting the field<\/p>\n

in daylight, the strange geometry<\/p>\n

of their faces funneling the air,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and everything \u2013 their whiteness,<\/p>\n

their sense of having slipped<\/p>\n

through from another world,<\/p>\n

their focus on the hunt \u2013<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

in the end it all comes down<\/p>\n

to their silence \u2013<\/p>\n

the way each feather disperses<\/p>\n

the air, how each wavers \u2013<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

and I wonder what omen it is<\/p>\n

to see two barn owls hunting<\/p>\n

in mid-morning, so quietly<\/p>\n

secretive, for surely<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

there is something in the slow<\/p>\n

spread of the wing, the moment<\/p>\n

of inverted flight, the living thing<\/p>\n

pulled from the earth and lifted.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Se\u00e1n Hewitt<\/strong>‘s debut collection of poetry,\u00a0Tongues of Fire<\/em>, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. It won\u00a0The Laurel Prize<\/em>\u00a0in 2021, and was shortlisted for\u00a0The Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, a Dalkey Literary Award. In 2020, he was chosen by\u00a0The Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0as one of their \u201c30 under 30\u201d artists in Ireland. His memoir,\u00a0All Down Darkness Wide<\/em>, was published in 2022. He is Poetry Critic for\u00a0The Irish Times<\/em>\u00a0and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin.<\/p>\n

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I watch them for a long while, the pair rising and courting the field in daylight, the strange geometry of their faces funneling the air,   and everything \u2013 their whiteness, their sense of having slipped through from another world, their focus on the hunt \u2013   in the end it all comes down to […]<\/p>\n

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