The Writers of Wales Database

HEALY, DAN

Website: http://www.freewebs.com/danielhealy/index.htm

Dan was born in Aberdare in 1972. He moved to Haverhill in Suffolk during his childhood and has lived in Cambridge for 12 years. Dan has worked as a tote operator, apple picker, animal feed salesman, newspaper vendor and Big Issue seller. He started writing poetry again four years ago, and has been published in a variety of magazines such as Anon, Envoi, HQ, The Journal, Obsessed With Pipework, Other Poetry, The Rialto, Seam and Seventh Quarry. Dan is currently a bookseller in Cambridge. Cinnamon Press published his first poetry collection in April, 2008. Dan is a Member of Academi.

Reviews:
With respect to Winter Lines (Cinnamon Press, 2008):

"…elegant and economic…"
Charles Johnson, Flarestack

"…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 quite 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


With respect to Facsimiles (Cinnamon Press, 2010)

"...Images so finely focused the poems seem painted rather than written..."
Michael Bayley

"...These are spare, icy clear minimalist poems...using imagery and emotion to expand the impact of each poem within the reader's imagination..."
Kevin Bailey


Selected Publications:
Winter Lines (Cinnamon Press, 2008)
Facsimiles (Cinnamon Press, 2010)





Winter Lines (Cinnamon Press, 2008)

In this debut collection Daniel Healy 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.

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