Selected poems /
Derek Mahon.
- London : Penguin/Gallery in association with Oxford University Press, 1993
- 194 p. ; 20 cm.
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.