whose flights of fancy have a knack of surprising not just his readers but himself. "'My father's sudden death has shocked us all'/Even me, and I've just made it up," he writes in "The Excuse". A basic mistake in approaching Donaghy's work would be to assume its emotional core was at odds with its frequent leg-pulling and cod-scholarly tangents. What is undeniable, though, is that his game-playing has a darker edge than may at first appear. A typical Donaghy strategy is the unveiling of layers of narration within narration.
from The Guardian: Between the flash and the report
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