DANIEL HEALY
POET
ISBN 9781905614578
http://www.cinnamonpress.com/titles-uk-poetry.htm
In this debut collection Dan Healy, a young Welsh poet, displays the power of writing that is pared back to the essentials. The poems appear to be fragments, but they resonate long after the page is turned; cool, sharp language that stirs the depths. “When the need arises to excise the troubles of a day just gone, this is a book to be reached for and, as with lowering one's face to a bowl of chilled water, dipped into. Dan Healy's poems are quiet moments… be they of acutely observed park, roadside caff or river – they ask us to share in his sense of wonder at a moment's this-ness, '...a shiver of light...'” Sam Smith, The Journal
EXTRACTS
October
Morning
at the beach
a dull
pigeon-feathered day
among the stifled
sounds of water
the hard
chipped flint of waves.
Placing the Rain
A supposed,
momentary distraction.
In particular
a late evening, spent
in listening,
in separation,
to the sound of water
on glass.
Shore-Line
There’s a distance to the waves
the movement of pebbles
grown smooth, across the beach
the fading of sound
a cracked shell, almost lost
the moment reasserts itself
in the cold flinch of rain on skin.
November Morning
Coldwater & daylight.
A pale sun, black streets
in weak
persistent rain,
through diffuse light
the gaze remains,
with only the sound
of traffic passing
to bring a circled
soft variation.