β Scribed by Healy, Dermot
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Front Cover; Note to Reader; Praise for The Reed Bed; Editor's Info Page; Title Page; Contents; A Ball of Starlings; When They Want to Know What We Were Like; The Purging; All the Meteors; I Catch Sight of Them as I Often Do; The Longing; Away with the Birds; Just Then; The Hallway; The Blackbird; Tongs; When We Talk of What's Out There; Those Days; The Reed Bed; Only Just; The Task; Chalkey's Grave; Who is That?; A Warning; Sunday, 16 August 1998; Alas; The West End; The Words; A Sober Night with Stars; Plants, Heavy with Berry; The Strange Impasse; The Whispering Shells; Walls.;Dermot Healy's poetry distils the essence of a gift he exercises more often and elaborately in other forms Β for narrative, dialogue, characterization, and acute insight and observation. In this work Β set in and around his various homes on the ocean's edge of Sligo, in London and further a?eld Β he captures the every day's ordinary dramas and Βsmall habits', noting at the same time the hallway Βwhere something is after happening'. Moynagh Sullivan in the Irish Literary Supplement enthused about his poems' Βvigorous movement and the feel of dance and joyful noises'. Rough-edged and refr.
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