Rhyming Weavers: And Other Country Poets of Antrim and Down

About John Hewitt

'John Hewitt outstrips the categories we keep invoking for him such as doyen of Ulster poets or conscience of the Planter tradition. He becomes instead the universal poet servant of the medium renewer of the forms discoverer of the nugget of harmony in the language and in ourselves. Seamus Heaney 'The constant subjects of his poetry are historical isolation and private loneliness. When he uses one as a metaphor for the other he writes with an unforgettable mixture of courage and perception.' Eavan Boland    John Hewitt the poet made himself heard in a land of bellowers without raising his voice. He held out the creative hand rather than the clenched fist. Michael Longley   John Hewitt father figure to a generation of poets such as Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley is widely acknowledged as a poetic icon and creative catalyst within the canon of Irish poetry. Edited with a new introduction by acclaimed poets Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby Selected Poems is testament to Hewitts remarkable legacy and a celebration of a unique compelling and still urgent voice in Irish poetry.  'John Hewitt outstrips the categories we keep invoking for him such as doyen of Ulster poets or conscience of the Planter tradition. He becomes instead the universal poet servant of the medium renewer of the forms discoverer of the nugget of harmony in the language and in ourselves. Seamus Heaney 'The constant subjects of his poetry are historical isolation and private loneliness. When he uses one as a metaphor for the other he writes with an unforgettable mixture of courage and perception.' Eavan Boland    John Hewitt the poet made himself heard in a land of bellowers without raising his voice. He held out the creative hand rather than the clenched fist. Michael Longley   John Hewitt father figure to a generation of poets such as Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley is widely acknowledged as a poetic icon and creative catalyst within the canon of Irish poetry. Edited with a new introduction by acclaimed poets Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby Selected Poems is testament to Hewitts remarkable legacy and a celebration of a unique compelling and still urgent voice in Irish poetry.