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I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

Seamus Heaney

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Grow Manifestation Order Poetry Store
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
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Expression Fall Habit Myself
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Risk Truth World Yourself
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poet World
History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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Grave History Hope Side
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Fundamental Memories Myself Poem Start
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
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Children Father Mom Myself
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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Art Life Poetry Yourself
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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Dimension God Language Personal Promise Reality Yearning
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can’t be too optimistic.
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Born Optimistic
I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.
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Believe Heart Learning
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a ‘binge’ writer – like a binge drinker. I go on binges.
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Best Description Himself Myself Writing
Since I was a schoolboy, I’ve been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
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Myself Old Recognition Taunt Young
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
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Mystery Poetry Relationship Slight
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
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Hurt Murder Myself Soul
I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Father Myself World

I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

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