A luminous memoir from the prizewinning poet a story of love heartbreak and coming of age and a tender exploration of queer identity.Beautiful Colm TibnRapturous New York TimesExtraordinary ObserverStunning Sunday TimesWhen Sen meets Elias the two fall headlong into a love story. But as Elias struggles with severe depression the couple comes face to face with crisis.Wrestling with this Sen Hewitt delves deep into his own history enlisting the ghosts of queer figures and poets before him. From a nineteenthcentury cemetery in Liverpool to the pine forests of Gothenburg Hewitt plumbs the darkness in search of solace and hope.All Down Darkness Wide is a mesmerising story of heartache and renewal and a fearless exploration of a world that too often sets happiness and queer life at odds.WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR IRISH LITERATURE 2022Extraordinarily beautiful... the best new work of nonfiction Ive read in years Sarah PerryRigorous and sensual... Hewitt has forged a lifeenhancing memoir Spectator