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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 become luminous, even transcendent.

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ISBN/EAN 9781852356415
Author Dermot Healy
Publisher Gallery Press
Publication date 24 Apr 2015
Format Paperback
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The Travels of Sorrow

The Travels of Sorrow is a windfall, the last gift of a compelling, original and charismatic artist.

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