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Derek Mahon: Poems with Classical referents

Poet: Derek Mahon  Poems with Classical referents – listed by Volume Publication  

(Page numbers refer to Collected Poems: Derek Mahon [CP], Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1999)

 

Original publication Publisher CP page no.       

Twelve Poems

Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965

 

Glengormley

 

14

In Carrowdore Churchyard

 

17

 

 

 

The Snow Party

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975

 

September in Gt. Yarmouth

 

16

Homage to Malcolm Lowry

 

61

The Antigone Riddle

 

66

The Mute Phenomena

(Given the title ‘After Nerval’ in the original publication.)

 

82

 

 

 

Night-Crossing

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968

 

De Quincey in Later Life

 

20

 

 

 

Lives

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972

 

Lives

 

44-46

Rage for Order

 

47-48

 

 

 

Light Music

Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1977

 

Light Music

 

70-74

 

 

 

The Hunt by Night

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982

 

How to Live

 

78

A Garage in Co. Cork

 

130-131

Ovid in Tomis

 

157-162

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antarctica

Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1986

 

Ovid in Love

 

79-80

October in Hyde Park

(Given the title ‘October in the original publication.)

163

 

 

 

Poems 1962-78

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979

 

Going Home

(Given the title ‘The Return’ in the original publication)

95-96

The Blackbird

 

110

Heraclitus on Rivers

 

114

 

 

 

Courtyards in Delft

Dublin: The Gallery Press, 1981

 

Tractatus

 

120

 

 

 

A Kensington Notebook

 London: Anvil Press, 1984

 

A Kensington Notebook

 

143-147

 

 

 

Poems

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press/ London: Penguin, 1991

 

Dawn at St. Patrick’s

 

169-171

 

 

 

The Hudson Letter

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1995

 

Galatea

(Originally published as ‘Pygmalion and Galatea’ in M. Hofmann & J. Lasdun (ed.) After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (London: Faber and Faber, 1994).

180-181

VIII: Ovid on West 4th

 

198-199

IX

 

200-202

X: St. Mark’s Place

 

203-204

XIII: Sappho in ‘Judith’s Room’

 

209-210

XVI: Key West

 

215-217

XVII: Imbolc

 

218-219

 

 

 

The Yellow Book

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1997

 

II: Axel’s Castle

 

226-227

IV; ‘shiver in your tenement’

 

230-231

VII: An Bonnán Buí

 

237-238

VIII: Hangover Square

 

239-240

IX: At the Gate Theatre

 

241-242

X: The Idiocy of Human Aspiration

 

243-244

At the Chelsea Arts Club

 

245-246

XII: Aphrodite’s Pool

 

247-248

XV: Smoke

 

253-254

XVI: America Deserta

 

255-257

XVII: The World of J. G. Farrell

 

258-259

XVIII: A Bangor Requiem

 

260-261

 

 

 

Collected Poems

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 1999

 

A Siren

 

270

Ghost

 

271

from ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’

 

272

Roman Script

 

273-277

The Dream Play

 

282

Stanzas for Mary Stuart

 

283-284

Not included in Collected Poems

Harbour Lights

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2005,

Lucretius on Clouds

 

The Cloud Ceiling

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p. 258-259)

Calypso

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.278-280)

Harbour Lights

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.281-287)

The Seaside Cemetery

 

Adaptations

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2006

Chorus from Antigone

 

The Chimeras

 

Life on Earth

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2008

Ariadne on Naxos

 

Quaderno

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.230-232)

Circe and Sirens

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.276-277)

The Lady from the Sea

 

Wave Shadow

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.305)

Research

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.308)

Homage to Gaia

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.313)

Homage to Goa

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.327-328)

An Autumn Wind

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2010

Ithaca

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.329-330)

A Quiet Spot

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.333)

Ash and Aspen

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.340)

Beached Whale

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.346-347)

A Building Site

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.351-352)

Autumn Skies

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.353-356)

Balcony of Europe

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.360)

Under the Volcanoes

(included in New Collected Poems, 2011, p.361-363)

The Long Road to Sichuan

 

Water

 

Raw Material

Oldcastle: The Gallery Press 2011

A Night with Cynthia

 

Epic Love

 

Love Not War

 

The Midnight Note

 

To Cynthia in the Country

 

...and at Baiae

 

Immortality

 

A Quiet Orgy

 

Cynthia's Ghost

 

Simulacrum

 

 

Plays

 

 

The Bacchae

Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 1991

N/A

Racine’s Phaedra

Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 1996

N/A

Oedipus

Oldcastle, The Gallery Press, 2005

N/A

 

Derek Mahon