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Tag: Derek Mahon

88. (Derek Mahon)

Itching dissatisfaction; Mahon is harder to get a hold of than any one poem suggests. The same could be said, … More

Contemporary Poetry, Derek Mahon, French poetry, Poetry, rhetoric, W.H. Auden

87. (Derek Mahon)

Derek Mahon, Ovidian, Whitmanesque, a spiritual materialist, a novelist in lyric, Northern Irish, rooted in transit and travel, poet of … More

Contemporary Poetry, Derek Mahon, Poetry
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