Selected Poems

by Mahon, Derek

• ISBN13: 9780141182339
• ISBN10: 0141182334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Spring in Belfast	1	(1)
Glengormley	2	(1)
In Carrowdore Churchyard	3	(1)
First Love	4	(1)
De Quincey in Later Life	5	(2)
An Unborn Child	7	(2)
After the Titanic	9	(1)
No Rest for the Wicked	10	(2)
A Dying Art	12	(1)
Ecclesiastes	13	(1)
A Tolerable Wisdom	14	(1)
Two Songs for Doreen	15	(1)
An Image from Beckett	16	(2)
J. P. Donleavy's Dublin	18	(1)
Lives	19	(3)
I Am Raftery	22	(1)
Beyond Howth Head	23	(7)
Homage to Malcolm Lowry	30	(1)
A Curious Ghost	31	(1)
The Snow Party	32	(2)
The Last of the Fire Kings	34	(2)
Gipsies	36	(1)
The Mayo Tao	37	(1)
The Apotheosis of Tins	38	(2)
Light Music	40	(6)
Ford Manor	46	(1)
Penshurst Place	47	(1)
The Mute Phenomena	48	(1)
The Banished Gods	49	(2)
A Refusal to Mourn	51	(3)
A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford	54	(3)
Autobiographies	57	(5)
Going Home	62	(3)
The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush	65	(1)
Camus in Ulster	66	(1)
North Wind: Portrush	67	(3)
Courtyards in Delft	70	(2)
Rathlin	72	(1)
Derry Morning	73	(2)
Rock Music	75	(2)
The Attic	77	(1)
Everything is Going to be All Right	78	(1)
Heraclitus on Rivers	79	(1)
The Sea in Winter	80	(4)
Hunger	84	(2)
Tractatus	86	(1)
Katie at the Pool	86	(1)
Morning Radio	87	(2)
The Drawing Board	89	(1)
One of These Nights	90	(3)
A Garage in Co. Cork	93	(2)
The Woods	95	(3)
Craigvara House	98	(3)
After Pasternak	101	(3)
The Globe in Carolina	104	(3)
The Hunt by Night	107	(2)
Girls on the Bridge	109	(2)
Brighton Beach	111	(2)
Achill	113	(1)
Ovid in Tomis	114	(7)
Antarctica	121	(1)
Kinsale	122	(1)
Dawn at St Patrick's	123	(3)
Northern Star	126	(2)
Noon at St Michael's	128	(2)
Galatea	130	(3)
The Yaddo Letter	133	(5)
from The Hudson Letter	138	(28)
from The Yellow Book	166	(29)
A Dirge	195	(3)
Ghosts	198	(1)
Roman Script	199	(5)
`Shapes and Shadows'	204	(2)
A Swim in Co. Wicklow	206	(2)
The Dream Play	208	(2)
St Patrick's Day	210