My first full length collection of poems, Made Strange By Time (Matador), was published in 2018.  It's available from the publisher (www.books@troubador.co.uk), Amazon, and from me via email.

 

My second full length collection, entitled Home, has just been published (June 2020) by Graffiti Books.

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

​

 

'Derek Healy writes beautifully.  Lyrically rich, vividly imagistic, poignant and moving, these poems stay with you long after their reading.'  - Anna Saunders

 

'They reward rereading by revealing layers of meaning and emotion, and his skilful use of form, as well as free verse, is a joy.'  - Rona Laycock

 

'Derek's thought-provoking poetry ranges through lyrical reflection and wry, self-deprecatory humour to the raw honesty of his evocative musings on man's insignificance in the grand scheme of things.'  - Marilyn Timms

 

Home costs seven pounds and is available at www.aspect-design.net  or direct from the poet at dch.derekhealy@gmail.com

 

​

I have had poems published in a number of literary magazines in this country and in the USA:

 

The Cannon's Mouth

Carillon

Common Threads (USA)

Graffiti

Lighten Up Online

The Lyric (USA)

Orbis

The Road Not Taken (USA)

The Salopian

The Seventh Quarry

Snakeskin

Writing Magazine

 

​My poems have also appeared in several local anthologies, including on five occasions the Gloucestershire Writers' Network Cheltenham Literature Festival competition anthology.