The moon above Sligo
     Is not
     The moon above Mayo.
                                          — Two Moons

The poems in Dermot Healy's first collection — launched in 1992 to an unusually warm reception — move in a variety of registers, from the background and imaginative landscape of County Cavan to the West of Ireland coast where he now lives.

From 'domestic lives' to 'neighbours' lights' this large, generous book is marked by an acceptance of the daily world and by compassion. It is lit by moments of transcendence.