New Selected Poems
By (Author) Derek Mahon
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
25th May 2016
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Poetry by individual poets
821.914
Paperback
128
Width 140mm, Height 215mm, Spine 5mm
190g
New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon's verse, from the early lyricism to a more expansive middle period ('New York Time', 'Decadence') and the flowering of his late style, it includes recent, uncollected work and culminates in the generous, far- reaching reverie 'Dreams of a Summer Night'.
Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and now lives in Kinsale, County Cork. He has received numerous awards including the Irish Academy of Letters Award, the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Recent titles from The Gallery Press include Selected Prose, Echo's Grove (translations), Theatre and New Collected Poems.