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Derek Mahon- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

He has also edited The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry (1990) and Modern Irish Poetry (1972).
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He has translated Racine's Phaedra (1996); Selected Poems by Philip Jaccottet (1987), which won the Scott-Manriet Translation Prize; and The Chimeras by Nerval (1982).
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Derek Mahon: Information from Answers.com

In addition to writing poetry, Mahon also published translations that include the Selected Poems of Philippe Jaccottet, a 1977 work that earned the Scott-Manriet Translation Prize.
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Contents 1 Biography 2 Style 3 Bibliography 3.1 Poetry collections 3.2 Collected translations 3.3 Collected prose 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Mahon has been cited as a major influence by a number of Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland and Eamon Grennan.
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Oxford University Press 1970: Ecclesiastes Phoenix Pamphlet Poets 1970: Beyond Howth Head.
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Gallery Press (shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize; winner of the 2009 Irish Times Poetry Now Award) 2010: An Autumn Wind.
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The Belfast native was born in 1941 and raised in the County Antrim town of Glengormley.
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Derek Mahon

Make a list of the words/phrases where this is suggested and say what is thus implied about the grandfather.
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Spread out all the photographs brought in by the class on a large table/desk.
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Grandfather Approaches to the poem: Photographs: This is just one picture of an old person.
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Wexford, The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush, Rathlin, Antarctica and Kinsale.
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Perhaps use the soundtrack from the film to create a sense of the 'pandemonium' and panic.
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What do these sounds contribute to the atmosphere or mood of the poem?
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Derek Mahon

Pages Adrienne Rich Derek Mahon Eavan Boland Elizabeth Bishop Emily Dickinson Gerard Manley Hopkins Leaving Cert English Old And Middle English Patrick Kavanagh Philip Larkin Robert Frost Seamus Heaney Shakespeare’s World Sylvia Plath Thomas Kinsella W.B.Yeats.
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A poem about the hunting down and killing of a terrorist.
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He was also involved in adapting Irish literature for television and radio.
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He was on the ship when it sank but survived.
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A poem about an old forgotten shed in which mushrooms grow, it is also about power and how the weak and helpless can be abandoned.
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A sarcastic and cutting poem about very strictly religious people in Northern Ireland.
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Derek Mahon Poetry Irish culture and customs - World Cultures European

They still have used copies for almost nothing (except shipping - chuckle).
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His books of poetry include The Hudson Letter (Wake Forest University Press, 1996); Selected Poems (1993); The Yaddo Letter (1992); Selected Poems (1991); Antarctica (1985); A Kensington Notebook (1984); The Hunt by Night (1982); Courtyards in Delft (1981); Poems, 1962-1978 (1979); The Sea in Winter (1979); In Their Element: A Selection of Poems (with Seamus Heaney, 1977); Light Music (1977); The Snow Party (1975); The Man Who Built His City in Snow (1972); Lives (1972); Beyond Howth Head (1970); Ecclesiastes (1970); Night-Crossing (1968); Design for a Grecian Urn (1967); and Twelve Poems (1965).
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Spiders have spun, flies dusted to mildew And once a day, perhaps, they have heard something – A trickle of masonry, a shout from the blue Or a lorry changing gear at the end of the lane.
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  They are begging us, you see, in their wordless way, To do something, to speak on their behalf Or at least not to close the door again.
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‘Save us, save us,’ they seem to say, ‘Let the god not abandon us Who have come so far in darkness and in pain.
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  A half century, without visitors, in the dark – Poor preparation for the cracking lock And creak of hinges. Magi, moonmen, Powdery prisoners of the old regime, Web-throated, stalked like triffids, racked by drought And insomnia, only the ghost of a scream At the flashbulb firing squad we wake them with Shows there is life yet in their feverish forms.
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Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 82, Derek Mahon

In one of those poems, “The Lost Girls” section in “Autobiographies,” I remember (this is naughty) this little girl who used to dress very prettily: she, in her back garden, would be visible to me up in my parents’ bedroom at the top of our house, and I used to watch her down there.
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After many years of beating about the bush, the fact is, I am an out-and-out traditionalist.
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That is the mode, not only the conversational mode, the mode of discourse, but it’s also the mode of composition, of imaginative discourse.
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A faith in meaningfulness, a defiance of nihilism—to which one is rather prone, of course.
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In writing, my thinking is on the level of “this will interest so-and-so” or “so-and-so will like this.” Or maybe not even that; maybe just that “this is going to be fun when I’m putting the finishing touches to it, when it’s actually taking its final form.” INTERVIEWER Although the self-portrait that comes through your poems is often that of the solitary, a lot of your poems are dedicated to specific people.
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(I’m thinking of the marches, of Burntollet, and so on.) I was horrified, and I didn’t go up there after a certain point.
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Derek Mahon : The Poetry Foundation

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After studying French at Trinity College, Dublin, Mahon spent a year in France at the Sorbonne; he subsequently lived and worked in cities across the United States and Canada before moving to London to become a journalist.
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back to top POEMS, ARTICLES, & MORE Discover this poet’s context and related poetry, articles, and media.
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Mahon’s series of epistolary verse-novels, The Hudson Letter (1995) and its follow-up The Yellow Book (1997), gather the detritus of a decadent contemporary culture and submit it to the formal pressures of art.
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The Sea in Winter, illustrations by Timothy Engelland, Deerfield Press, 1979.
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With detached and unsentimental language Mahon symbolizes what Blake Morrison in the Times Literary Supplement called "past human aspirations…striving to be remembered and redeemed." Mahon’s work throughout the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s was widely praised for the intensity and grimness of its gaze.
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Derek Mahon - Culture Northern Ireland

During the war, my parents took a flat there, and eventually they retired to Bangor later on.
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Derek Mahon appears at the Aspects Literary Festival in Bangor on Wednesday September 23 at 8pm.
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I’d rather see the bad old murals to be honest, because at least they meant something to somebody.
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I’ve done an awful lot of it in my time, and now I kind of limit it because of the travel.
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That whole pre- Troubles Belfast is interesting because of its time capsule quality, the fact that it is no more.
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Poem: After The Titanic – Derek Mahon | Notes from the field ...

My girlfriend and I were debating simplified binary options, was Ismay to be either “pitied” or “scorned”, whereas in reality he (and people in general) contain both good and bad elements and can be both pitied and scorned.
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Then it is I drown again with all those dim Lost faces I never understood.
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I was surprised at that argument (but not at the general ferocity with which it was communicated, mind) so we looked up the poem and read it.
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After The Titanic They said I got away in a boat And humbled me at the inquiry.
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Poetry International Web - Derek Mahon

May 15, 2010 Welcome to Irish poetry - May 2010 This quarter we take a rest from our usual format of focusing on two poe...
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Derek Mahon (Ireland, 1941) Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and studied French literature at Trinity College Dublin and at the Sorbonne.
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He has influenced not only a younger generation of British and Irish poets but has also been one of the influences on a new school of Scandinavian poets centred in Oslo and Gothenburg.
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He lived for many years in London, working variously as a reviewer, television adaptor of literary texts for British television and poetry editor of the New Statesman.
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Queen's University Belfast | Derek Mahon

Derek was reading with Thomas McCarthy, Medbh McGuckian and Michael Longley.
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‘A modern master at the height of his powers: mature, meditative, worldly’ (William Boyd).
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He edited the poems of Dylan Thomas in the Faber “Poet to Poet” series.
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The Poem - Derek Mahon

Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel, Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.
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Grown beyond nature now, soft food for worms, They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.
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They have been waiting for us in a foetor Of vegetable sweat since civil war days, Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure of the expropriated mycologist.
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He never came back, and light since then Is a keyhole rusting gently after rain.
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This is the one star in their firmament Or frames a star within a star.
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Spiders have spun, flies dusted to mildew And once a day, perhaps, they have heard something — A trickle of masonry, a shout from the blue Or a lorry changing gear at the end of the lane.
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As it Should Be-mainly three beats per line, with five and four beat variations.
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Internal Rhyme or Cross Rhyme or Conventional (end of line) Rhyme Internal Rhyme is a word or sound rhyming within a line Cross Rhyme is a word or sound rhyming across two or more lines Consonance, including sibilance [or sibilant sounds].
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But as well as rejecting his roots he sought the loneliness and impartiality of the exile in order to write his kind of poetry.
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Grandfather - the rhythm is partly defined by the strict sonnet form, but Mahon gives it a natural feeling with his run on lines and simple everyday words.
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‘Boiler -rooms, row upon row of gantries rolled Away to reveal the landscape of a childhood Only he can recapture.’ Note how the alliterating ‘g’ and the assonance pattern of the deep ‘a’, ‘ey’, ‘a’ sounds emphasise the sombre description of the sea in ‘Day trip to Donegal’: ‘the grave grey of the sea the grimmer in that enclave’.
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You should compare the contexts by examining what the last line of both poems has to say about the future.
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This Writing Life: 'After the Titanic' by Derek Mahon (1985)

Probably the same, though with the great burden surely as this poem demonstrates...Anyway, great to get your thoughts on this one!ReplyDeleteAdd commentLoad more...
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It moves us, I think, one step closer to the aura of that word, to the feeling it generates.
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'Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm...' by... from 'Five Villanelles' by Weldon Kees (1947) 'Epic' by Patrick Kavanagh & 'Anahorish' by Seamus...
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'Epilogue' by Robert Lowell (1977) 'Encounter' by Czeslaw Milosz (1936) In the Library of Lost Objects - cover 'The Long Road' by Robert Creeley (1996) ►  April (4) 'The Sun Bathers' & 'The Term' by William Carlos W...
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Posted by Noel Duffy at 10:04 AM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook 6 comments: Adele WardMar 26, 2011 12:04 PMI'm glad you introduced me to this poem.
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This Writing Life: 'After the Titanic' by Derek Mahon (1985) This Writing Life Wednesday, March 16, 2011 'After the Titanic' by Derek Mahon (1985)               After the Titanic                              They said I got away in the boat                        And humbled me at the inquiry.
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Derek Mahon (1941- ) - Ricorso: A Knowledge of Irish Literature

Kathleen McCracken, ‘Homophrosyne: The French Element in the Poetry of Derek Mahon’ in The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama, ed.
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Terence Brown, ‘Four New Voices, Poets of the Present’, in Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1975), [q.p.].
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McCormack, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture (1999; 2001), p.296; “Shapes and Shadows”, poem incl. in Adrian Rice & Angela Reid, eds., A Conversation Piece (Nat.
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Jon Stallworthy, ‘Fathers and Sons’ [on McNeice with Mahon, Longley, and Muldoon], Bullán: A Journal of Irish Studies, 2, 1 (Summer 1995), pp1-15, espec., 11ff.
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The epigraph is from Cyril Connolly’s The Unquiet Grave [Palinurus:] ‘To live in a decadence need not make us despair; it is but one technical problem the more which a writer has to solve.’ [ top ] Criticism Monographs Enrico Reggiani, In Attesa della Vita: Introduzione alla Poetica di Derek Mahon (Milano: Vita e Pensiero 1996), 432pp., and Do.
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2 (Summer 1991), ‘Derek Mahon Interviewed’, also review of Mahon, Heaney, Longley, et al.; Rhinoceros, 3 [n.d.], Translations: an interview with Derek Mahon, also Carson, Ginsberg, Holub.
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Derek Mahon - eNotes.com Reference

According to the critic Hugh Haughton his early poems were highly fluent and extraordinary for a person so young.
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"Painting into Poetry: The Case of Derek Mahon" by Rajeev S.
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Derek Walcott Derek Walcott A Far Cry from Africa: Bibliography and Further Reading eNotes.com is a resource used daily by thousands of students, teachers, professors and researchers.
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See also Poetry portal List of Northern Irish writers Persondata Name Mahon, Derek Alternative names Short description Date of birth 23 November 1941 Place of birth Belfast, Northern Ireland Date of death Place of death Copyright InformationThis article is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution/ Share-Alike License.
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Gallery Press (winner of the 2006 Irish Times Poetry Now Award) 2007: Somewhere the Wave.
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Auden Influenced Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Eamon Grennan Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941) is a Northern Irish poet.
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Derek Mahon Criticism - eNotes - Literature Study Guides, Lesson ...

He attended school at the Protestant-run Royal Belfast Academical Institution from 1953 to 1960 and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1965 with a degree in French, haven taken a year of his college education to study at the Sorbonne.
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Wexford.” By the mid-1970s Mahon was well known as a poet; in 1977 he accepted a post as writer-in-residence at the New University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Derry, in Northern Ireland.
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During these years he also published several of his important early works, including Night Crossing (1968), Ecclesiastes (1969), Beyond Howth Head (1970), Lives (1972), and The Snow Party (1975).
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In 1986 he began a weekly book column for the Irish Times, which ran through 1989.
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Williams (essay date September 1984) Robert Taylor (essay date autumn 1987) Joris Duytschaever (essay date 1988) Kathleen Mullaney (essay date September 1989) William A.
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As early as 1979 Brian Donnelly proposed Mahon as the heir of W.
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THE GALLERY PRESS - AUTHORS - DEREK MAHON

Publications from The Gallery Press include The Hudson Letter, The Yellow Book, Words in the Air (bilingual, with the French of Philippe Jaccottet), Birds (a translation of Oiseaux by Saint-John Perse), Harbour Lights (2005) (Winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2006) Adaptations (2006), Life on Earth (2008), An Autumn Wind (2010) and New Collected Poems (2011).
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He received the David Cohen Prize 2007, for recognition of a lifetime’s achievement in literature.
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Derek Mahon: “The Thunder Shower” : The New Yorker

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Derek Mahon: Longer Commentary - Ricorso: A Knowledge of Irish ...

2010), Weekend Review, writes parenthetically: ‘It would be interesting, in passing, to know whether Derek Mahon stands by his statement to Brown in a 1985 interview, and quoted here, that MacNeice “had no place in the intellectual history of modern Ireland”.’ [ top ]
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/ By contrast, some critics in this book hint that the source of poetry in work as mesmeric in its music as Mahon’s can be, may be something in human consciousness that transcends “the mute phenomena” and the flux of time and history, something poetry helps us to experience as the ground of our being (to deploy Paul Tillich’s famous phrase).
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To become aware of events, it seems, is to be obliged to offer testimony to what one has seen - an issue that Mahon has struggled with throughout his career in such poems as “Afterlives”, “The Last of the Fire Kings”, and “The Apotheosis of Tins”.
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McCormack, reviewing of Fran Brearton, The Great War in Irish Poetry: W.
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Dreams of a Summer Night, the concluding poem, finishes on: “I await the daylight we were born to love: / birds at a window, boats on a rising wave, / light dancing on dawn water, the lives we live.” These last four words of New Collected Poems , “the lives we live”, recall what the great American poet Wallace Stevens said about how poetry “helps us to live our lives”.
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2006), Weekend, p.10: ‘One of Derek Mahon’s greatest skills as a poet has always been to know how to slip himself into a poem.
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Derek Mahon Summary | BookRags.com

27 pages In the following essay, Clutterbuck interprets Mahon's position on the link between art and reality as negative and sometimes cynical, doubting the existence of meaning in either art or life.
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13 pages In the following essay, Frazier suggests that The Hunt by Night reflects a change in Mahon's work, away from regionalism, and away from attention-seeking tricks of poetic form and style.
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21 pages In the following essay, Kendall looks at Mahon's relation to his birthplace of Belfast, Ireland.
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19 pages In the following essay, Duytschaever applies Walter Benjamin's literary theory to Mahon's poetry and his attitude toward history.
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1 pages Critical Essay by Robin Skelton [Derek Mahon's collection Night Crossing] suffers from gentility….
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28 pages In the following essay, Redmond compares Mahon's verse- letters to the work of W.
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