‘Evocative, ecstatic, and saturated with off-killed wit’. Keiran Goddard (2002, English) publishes Hourglass

The second time you came, we went from bar to bar to bar. It made the city feel smaller. Like a map we were folding to the size of a stamp. We were good at that. We could have fit an entire universe inside a matchbox.

Hourglass by Exeter alumnus Keiran Goddard (2002, English) turns time upside down, combs the intimate wreckage of heartbreak for something universal, and asks what it means to lose what you love. Intimate, relatable, and funny, it is a revolutionary love story.

The book is Goddard’s debut novel, following the success of his two full-length poetry collections, For The Chorus (2016) and Votive (2019). His debut poetry collection was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Prize and he was the runner up in the William Blake Prize.

Hourglass will be published on 3 March by Little, Brown and is available for pre-order here.