Exploring complex lives in a Donegal Dreamtime

As a poet and novelist, Dermot Healy breathes life into words. It has been 11 years since Sudden Times, his widely ac claimed last novel, was published. In the meantime, he has written plays and two collections of poetry, The Reed Bed (2001), and A F

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By Dermot Healy

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As a poet and novelist, Dermot Healy breathes life into words. It has been 11 years since Sudden Times, his widely ac claimed last novel, was published. In the meantime, he has written plays and two collections of poetry, The Reed Bed (2001), and A Fool’s Errand (2010), an extraordinary sequence of sonnets centred around the migratory barnacle ...