Facsimiles by Daniel Healy

Second collection from emerging poet whose first collection was published to critical acclaim.

Facsimiles is a superb second collection from a talented young poet. Developing his unique voice, first showcased in Winter Lines (2008) Daniel Healy dazzles with powerful writing pared down to the essentials.  Poems that at first appear to be fragments resonate long after the page is turned; cool, sharp language that stirs the depths.

Praise for Healy’s poetry

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

Daniel Healy is a young Welsh poet who works as a bookseller in Cambridge.