The final stop on our round-the-world tour brings poetry from Ireland’s Seán Hewitt and Canada’s Rachel McCrum. Seán Hewitt is one of Irish poetry’s most renowned writers and performers, and his debut collection, Tongues of Fire, was released to widespread critical acclaim. His poems are intimate and visceral, and his depictions of gay love remarkable in their candour. Montreal-based Rachel McCrum is the editor of Font magazine, and works fulltime as a freelance poet, performer, event curator, and workshop facilitator.

Sean Hewitt’s debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, is published by Jonathan Cape. He is a book critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Rachel McCrum’s first collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate (Stewed Rhubarb Press, 2018), is published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in 2020, as Le premier coup de clairon pour réveiller les femmes immorales.