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Selected poems / Derek Mahon.

By: Mahon, Derek, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Penguin/Gallery in association with Oxford University Press, 1993 1990Description: 194 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 0140586636 .Subject(s): English poetry -- Irish authorsDDC classification: 821.914
Contents:
In Carrowdore Churchyard -- Glengormley -- Grandfather -- Preface to a Love Poem -- De Quincey in Later life -- Four walks in the Country Near Saint-Brieuc -- The Forger -- A Portrait of the Artist -- Day trip to Donegal -- An unborn child -- Canadian Pacific -- Thinking of Inis Oirr in Cambridge, Mass -- Homecoming -- A dying Art -- Ecclesiastes -- After the Titanic -- The Studio -- Aran -- Two Songs -- A tolerable wisdom -- An image from Beckett -- Lives -- Deaths -- As is should be -- A stone age figure far below -- Consolations of philosophy -- Gipsies -- Beyond Howth Head -- Afterlives -- Leaves -- Dream days -- Nostalgias -- Father-in-law -- Homage to Malcolm Lowry -- The snow party -- The last of the Fire Kings -- A refusal to Mourn -- A disused shed in Co. Wexford -- The mute phenomena -- Light music -- Midsummer -- Ford Manor -- Penshurst Place -- How to live -- Ovid in love -- from The Drunken Boat -- Three poems by Philippe Jaccottet -- Soles -- Autobiographies -- A Kensington Notebook -- Going Home -- The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush -- Rock Music -- The Blackbird -- The Attic -- The Old Snaps -- Dawn at St. Patrick's -- Beyond the pale -- Everything is going to be all right -- Heraclitus on Rivers -- The sea in winter -- 'Songs of Praise' -- Courtyards in Delft -- Rathlin -- Derry Morning -- North Wind: Portrush -- An Old Lady -- Old Roscoff -- Brecht in Svendborg -- Knut Hamsun in Old Age -- The Andean Flute -- Tractatus -- Katie at the pool -- The dawn chorus -- Morning radio -- Table talk -- Another Sunday morning -- A lighthouse in Maine -- St. Eustace -- The Joycentenary Ode -- A postcard from Berlin -- One of these nights -- A garage in Co. Cork -- The Woods -- Craigvara House -- The terminal bar -- After pasternak -- The globe in North Carolina -- Squince -- Mt. Gabriel -- Tithonus -- Girls on the Bridge -- The hunt by night -- Brighton Beach -- Achill -- Ovid in Tomis -- October in Hyde Park -- Dejection -- Night Drive -- Antarctica -- Kinsale -- Death and the Sun.
Holdings
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This newly expanded collection of Derek Mahon's poems includes substantial portions of two earlier volumes, The Hudson Letter and The Yellow Book, and concludes with even more recent work. Mahon blends a respect for structure with a modernist style in evocative verses that are abstract yet substantial and combines solid images from nature with elusive, complex human thoughts.

In Carrowdore Churchyard -- Glengormley -- Grandfather -- Preface to a Love Poem -- De Quincey in Later life -- Four walks in the Country Near Saint-Brieuc -- The Forger -- A Portrait of the Artist -- Day trip to Donegal -- An unborn child -- Canadian Pacific -- Thinking of Inis Oirr in Cambridge, Mass -- Homecoming -- A dying Art -- Ecclesiastes -- After the Titanic -- The Studio -- Aran -- Two Songs -- A tolerable wisdom -- An image from Beckett -- Lives -- Deaths -- As is should be -- A stone age figure far below -- Consolations of philosophy -- Gipsies -- Beyond Howth Head -- Afterlives -- Leaves -- Dream days -- Nostalgias -- Father-in-law -- Homage to Malcolm Lowry -- The snow party -- The last of the Fire Kings -- A refusal to Mourn -- A disused shed in Co. Wexford -- The mute phenomena -- Light music -- Midsummer -- Ford Manor -- Penshurst Place -- How to live -- Ovid in love -- from The Drunken Boat -- Three poems by Philippe Jaccottet -- Soles -- Autobiographies -- A Kensington Notebook -- Going Home -- The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush -- Rock Music -- The Blackbird -- The Attic -- The Old Snaps -- Dawn at St. Patrick's -- Beyond the pale -- Everything is going to be all right -- Heraclitus on Rivers -- The sea in winter -- 'Songs of Praise' -- Courtyards in Delft -- Rathlin -- Derry Morning -- North Wind: Portrush -- An Old Lady -- Old Roscoff -- Brecht in Svendborg -- Knut Hamsun in Old Age -- The Andean Flute -- Tractatus -- Katie at the pool -- The dawn chorus -- Morning radio -- Table talk -- Another Sunday morning -- A lighthouse in Maine -- St. Eustace -- The Joycentenary Ode -- A postcard from Berlin -- One of these nights -- A garage in Co. Cork -- The Woods -- Craigvara House -- The terminal bar -- After pasternak -- The globe in North Carolina -- Squince -- Mt. Gabriel -- Tithonus -- Girls on the Bridge -- The hunt by night -- Brighton Beach -- Achill -- Ovid in Tomis -- October in Hyde Park -- Dejection -- Night Drive -- Antarctica -- Kinsale -- Death and the Sun.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Spring in Belfast (p. 1)
  • Glengormley (p. 2)
  • In Carrowdore Churchyard (p. 3)
  • First Love (p. 4)
  • De Quincey in Later Life (p. 5)
  • An Unborn Child (p. 7)
  • After the Titanic (p. 9)
  • No Rest for the Wicked (p. 10)
  • A Dying Art (p. 12)
  • Ecclesiastes (p. 13)
  • A Tolerable Wisdom (p. 14)
  • Two Songs for Doreen (p. 15)
  • An Image from Beckett (p. 16)
  • J. P. Donleavy's Dublin (p. 18)
  • Lives (p. 19)
  • I Am Raftery (p. 22)
  • Beyond Howth Head (p. 23)
  • Homage to Malcolm Lowry (p. 30)
  • A Curious Ghost (p. 31)
  • The Snow Party (p. 32)
  • The Last of the Fire Kings (p. 34)
  • Gipsies (p. 36)
  • The Mayo Tao (p. 37)
  • The Apotheosis of Tins (p. 38)
  • Light Music (p. 40)
  • Ford Manor (p. 46)
  • Penshurst Place (p. 47)
  • The Mute Phenomena (p. 48)
  • The Banished Gods (p. 49)
  • A Refusal to Mourn (p. 51)
  • A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford (p. 54)
  • Autobiographies (p. 57)
  • Going Home (p. 62)
  • The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush (p. 65)
  • Camus in Ulster (p. 66)
  • North Wind: Portrush (p. 67)
  • Courtyards in Delft (p. 70)
  • Rathlin (p. 72)
  • Derry Morning (p. 73)
  • Rock Music (p. 75)
  • The Attic (p. 77)
  • Everything is Going to be All Right (p. 78)
  • Heraclitus on Rivers (p. 79)
  • The Sea in Winter (p. 80)
  • Hunger (p. 84)
  • Tractatus (p. 86)
  • Katie at the Pool (p. 86)
  • Morning Radio (p. 87)
  • The Drawing Board (p. 89)
  • One of These Nights (p. 90)
  • A Garage in Co. Cork (p. 93)
  • The Woods (p. 95)
  • Craigvara House (p. 98)
  • After Pasternak (p. 101)
  • The Globe in Carolina (p. 104)
  • The Hunt by Night (p. 107)
  • Girls on the Bridge (p. 109)
  • Brighton Beach (p. 111)
  • Achill (p. 113)
  • Ovid in Tomis (p. 114)
  • Antarctica (p. 121)
  • Kinsale (p. 122)
  • Dawn at St Patrick's (p. 123)
  • Northern Star (p. 126)
  • Noon at St Michael's (p. 128)
  • Galatea (p. 130)
  • The Yaddo Letter (p. 133)
  • from The Hudson Letter (p. 138)
  • from The Yellow Book (p. 166)
  • A Dirge (p. 195)
  • Ghosts (p. 198)
  • Roman Script (p. 199)
  • 'Shapes and Shadows' (p. 204)
  • A Swim in Co. Wicklow (p. 206)
  • The Dream Play (p. 208)
  • St Patrick's Day (p. 210)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Derek Mahon was an Irish poet, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 23, 1941. He was considered one of the great lyric poets of the 20th century.

He published over twenty poetry collection. His work included Twelve Poems (1965), Night Crossing (1968), Lives (1972), The Snow Party (1975), Courtyards in Delft (1981), and Antarctica (1985). His four award-winning collections are Harbor Lights (2005), Somewhere the wave (2007), Life on Earth (2008), and An Autumn Wind (2009).

He received two honorary doctorates (Trinity College Dublin and NUI Galway) and numerous awards for his work. In 2007, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature, in recognition of his lifetime's achievement.

Derek Mahon died on October 1, 2020 in Cork. He was 78.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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