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Seán Hewitt

Seán Hewitt

Poet

Apr 29, 2026

2:36
Was it something that you encountered a long time ago, and those words open heaven sort of stuck with you, um, and found their way into the title here?
2:45
No, I'm, I'm terrible.
2:47
I, I n- I never have a title for my book until the book is done.
2:51
And then I have the horrible job of having to kind of encapsulate an entire book in a couple of words, which I find very difficult to do.
3:01
Um, so I usually go looking for other people's words, so I don't have to find my own.
3:07
Um, so with my last book, I'd stolen some words from Gerard Manley Hopkins, the poet, uh, for the title.
3:13
And this one, um, I, I had a list of words and ideas, like a word cloud, for what I thought the book felt like or was about.

26 MINS LATER

29:42
Yeah.

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