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Derek Mahon, (born November 23, 1941, Belfast, Northern Ireland), Northern Irish poet and translator who explored contemporary themes through verse with classical formal structure. Mahon studied at Trinity College in Dublin and at the Sorbonne in Paris before teaching in England and the United States. Before returning to Ireland, Mahon lived in London, where he adapted literary texts for.
Mahon’s articulations of marginality, and on behalf of the marginalized (there’s an implicit force doing the marginalizing) have recently inspired a range of socially conscious literary-critical work, from Gail McConnell’s study of Mahon and Calvinism (within a larger study of Northern Irish poetry and theology) to Sam Solnick’s contextualization of his work within the poetry of the.
Stephen Enniss maintains that too often critics have read Derek Mahon's poetry as if it were an impersonal commentary on Northern Ireland or a continuing dispute with modernity, and have.
Derek Mahon is widely regarded as one of the most talented and innovative Irish poets of the late 20th century. Affiliated with the generation of young poets from Northern Ireland who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s, Mahon is best known for illuminating.
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The following conversation took place at Derek Mahon’s studio apartment in the West Village of New York City, not long after his Selected Poems (1991) had been published in America.Three more volumes of poetry have appeared since that conversation—The Hudson Letter (1995), The Yellow Book (1997), and his Collected Poems (1999)—as well as a volume of critical writing, Journalism (1996).
Derek Mahon. Hugh Odling-Smee speaks to the legendary poet about Bangor, Belfast and, er, Goa. Mahon320x.jpg. On a dodgy phone line Derek Mahon is pleased to tell me that the sun is shining in Kinsale. In Belfast, of course, there are slate grey skies and rain at five minute intervals. But regardless of the weather, Mahon is soon to make the long travel from the sunny south west to the shores.