Represented in all modern anthologies by his great poem on Irish history "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. He writes lyric poetry of enormous wit, elegance and scepticism. Penguin published his first "Selected Poems" in 1990 - this new, expanded edition revisits the older work, but also contains important new work from his most recent volume, "Harbour Lights".
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There is a copiousness and excitement about these poems found only in work of the highest order. -- Seamus Heaney
Verse of astonishing versatility and singing power. -- Hugh Haughton, Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Verse of astonishing versatility and singing power. -- Hugh Haughton, Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Born in 1941 in Belfast, Mahon read French at Trinity College, Dublin. His first book NIGHT CROSSING was published by OUP in 1968. He moved to London in the 70s where he worked as a literary journalist, but now lives again in Dublin.
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Phillipe Jaccotet has enough of the child like inquisition in all of us and enough of an appeal to the beautiful and romantic, to off set his imaginitive language, his modern sensibilities. I am no poetry expert, but reading the very musical verse of Jaccotet is positively a joy. Of course i didn't like all of the poetry in the book, the later ones seemed dreary. But jaccotet is a genius worth getting to know. I recomend buying this book to all those interested in French poetry in the surrealist or any other tradition.
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- The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley by Fran Brearton on 10 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Matthew Campbell on 5 pages
- Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition by Christina Hunt Mahony on 4 pages
- The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry by Carl Middleman on page 861, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modernism and the Celtic Revival by Gregory Castle in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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