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Christopher Steare
A study of the work of Northern Irish poet Derek Mahon.
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Derek Mahon (1941-2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. Bringing together many leading scholars of modern and contemporary Irish poetry, including a…
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Hugh Haughton (Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York)
Leading Irish poet Derek Mahon has written some of the key poems of our age. In this landmark study, Hugh Haughton opens up Mahon’s work before our eyes, balancing critical…
Derek Mahon
This play by Derek Mahon is a modern adaptation of Moliere's classic comedy, 'The School for Wives.' Set in contemporary times, it explores themes of love, marriage, power, and gender…
Mahon writes from lower Manhattan, addressing, in ramble or vigil, his absent lover, his children in London, Auden, Yeats’s father, and other cosmic vagrants, clutching our bits and pieces, arrogant…
Mahon writes from lower Manhattan, addressing, in ramble or vigil, his absent lover, his children in London, Auden, Yeats s father, and other cosmic vagrants, clutching our bits and pieces…
In The Yellow Book, the home-seeking traveler a decadent who lived to tell the story finds lodgings in our fierce fin de siecle under the roof of his Dublin attic…
An essential volume from an award-winning and critically acclaimed Irish poet.
Stephen Enniss
After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon is a portrait of an artistic life in motion and stirring reflection on the capacity of great poetry to fashion something lasting…
In The Yellow Book, the home-seeking traveler– a decadent who lived to tell the story –finds lodgings in our fierce fin de siecle under the roof of his Dublin attic…
Jonathan Swift
Part of Faber’s critically acclaimed Poet to Poet series
Dylan Thomas
Praised for his verbal inventiveness, image-making power and almost pagan metaphysics, Dylan Thomas’s poems are visions of creation and morality.
