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Colin Barrett


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Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009 he completed his MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. His work has been published in The Stinging Fly magazine and in the anthologies, Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2010) and Town and Country (Faber and Faber, 2013).

Average rating: 3.81 · 10,885 ratings · 1,562 reviews · 17 distinct worksSimilar authors
Wild Houses

3.71 avg rating — 7,751 ratings — published 2024 — 17 editions
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Young Skins

4.01 avg rating — 2,515 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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Homesickness

3.84 avg rating — 1,374 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions
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Anhedonia, Here I Come

3.07 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2016
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Calm With Horses

3.75 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Ways

3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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The waiting room

3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Whoever Is There, Come on T...

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In the Air

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De maan

it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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“It is Sunday. The weekend, that three-day festival of attrition, is done. Sunday is the day of purgation and redress; of tenderised brain cases and see-sawing stomachs and hollow pledges to never, ever get that twisted again.”
Colin Barrett, Young Skins

“it is soothing to listen to the radio static bristle of the rushing water.”
Colin Barrett, Young Skins

“I don’t think any other animal does rape,”
Colin Barrett, The Dolphin

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