He Used to be Me
- fiction
- Categories:Contemporary
- Language:English(Translation Services Available)
- Publication date:February,2024
- Pages:136
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- Text Color:Black and white
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Feature
Extraordinary, form-bending prose: for readers of Max Porter, Patrick McCabe and David Toms.
Description
We first meet him wandering the streets of Castlebar in search of ‘Devil’s feet’ – the claw marks of the jackdaws who have spoken to him since he was a boy. He pretends not to hear the cruel remarks of those he passes, people who will never understand what’s going on in his head
because they don’t take the trouble to ask.
In extraordinary prose, Walsh Donnelly imagines the inner life of Daft Matt, from the loss of his twin brother as a child, through the halcyon days of early manhood, to the shocking aftermath of a horse-riding accident that would leave him in care for another 30 years.
Author
is an LGBTQ+ writer. Originally from Carlow in the south-east of Ireland, she now lives in Mayo in the west of Ireland. She is the author of the poetic memoir, The Woman With An Owl Tattoo, and the poetry collection, Odd as F*ck. She has been shortlisted for the Fish International Prize and the Frances MacManus competitions for her fiction and for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award and the International Poetry Book Awards for her poetry.