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Derek Mahon’s Followers (25)
Derek Mahon
Born
in Belfast, Ireland
November 23, 1941
Genre
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Selected Poems of Derek Mahon
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published
1992
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9 editions
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Collected Poems
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published
1999
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3 editions
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New Selected Poems
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Harbour Lights
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An Autumn Wind
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published
2010
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3 editions
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Racine's Phaedra
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published
1996
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Washing Up
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The Yellow Book
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published
1997
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4 editions
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Life on Earth
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published
2008
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6 editions
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The Hunt by Night
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published
1983
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4 editions
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“Everything Is Going to Be All Right
How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.”
― Collected Poems
How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right.”
― Collected Poems
“You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,
Let not our naive labours have been in vain!”
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Let not our naive labours have been in vain!”
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“Sunrise in the Irish Sea, dawn over Dublin Bay
after a stormy night, one shivering star;
and I picture the harsh waking everywhere,
the devastations of a world at war,
airfields, radio silence, a darkened convoy
strung out in moonlight on a glittering sea.”
― The Yellow Book
after a stormy night, one shivering star;
and I picture the harsh waking everywhere,
the devastations of a world at war,
airfields, radio silence, a darkened convoy
strung out in moonlight on a glittering sea.”
― The Yellow Book
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