Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Homage to Goa |
Life on Earth, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2008 |
Not included in CP |
Allusion to Classical figure Dionysus
Classical/post-Classical intertexts Dionysus is portrayed as brother of the Hindu god Krishna
Comment The poem's title echoes that of Mahon's 'Homage to Gaia' sequence, in the same volume.
Note Also collected in New Collected Poems, Gallery Press, 2011, p.327-328.