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Selected poems / Derek Mahon.

By: Mahon, Derek, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Penguin, 2000Edition: New enl. ed.Description: vii, 213 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0141182334 .Subject(s): English poetry -- Irish authorsDDC classification: 821.914
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With his poem A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford, Derek Mahon is regarded with Heaney and Longley as the leader of the resurgence of Irish poetry from the late 60s onwards. This new edition revists his older work but also contains later poems.

Previous ed.: 1991.

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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