A review by katyboo52
All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt

4.0

Sean Hewitt is a poet and writer. Meeting his boyfriend Elias whilst travelling, they are smitten with each other and soon after returning home, Sean sets forth on a different adventure, moving to Sweden and in with Elias. What starts as a grand, romantic adventure soon turns dark as Elias falls into a depression that starts to consume Sean's life too. Triggered by the relationship, Hewitt starts to explore his own relationship with depression, the things he hides and his complex identity as a gay man. Drawing on Hewitt's studies of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sean, like Hopkins attempts to find a suitable language to describe what is happening to his life. Poetic, sad and rather beautiful memoir.