Dermot Healy

The Travels of Sorrow

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Sorrow never travels far from home.Dermot Healy's death in the summer of 2014 reverberated deeply and far. Yet for all the admiration his work accrued he suffered something of the fate of those who abound in talents. Was he a poet? A novelist? A story writer? A memoirist? A playwright? He was all these - and more.When Seamus Heaney was editing Soundings (1974) Dermot Healy 'sent a pile of material that was sprouting talent in all directions . . . he was the exception'. Four books of poems have already touched and tickled readers in surprising ways. Like all his writing they are marked by insight, empathy and wit. Ordinary acts and exchanges b… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-85235-697-2
EAN: 9781852356972
Produktnummer: 22270466
Verlag: The Gallery Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 300 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 206 KB

Über den Autor

Dermot Healy was born in Finea, County Westmeath. The Gallery Press has also published the following collections of poems: The Ballyconnell Colours (1992), What the Hammer (1998), The Reed Bed (2001) and A Fool's Errand (2010, shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award). Dermot Healy's other books include Banished Misfortune (stories), The Bend for Home (memoir), Fighting with Shadows, A Goat's Song, Sudden Times and Long Time, No See (novels).Dermot Healy lived in Ballyconnell, County Sligo, until his sudden death, aged 66, in 2014.