Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Beached Whale |
An Autumn Wind, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2010 |
Not included in CP (See also note below) |
Allusion to Classical figure Pliny
Relationship to Classical text Mahon refers to Pliny the Elder's Natural History 9.8, in which he recounts a number of stories regarding interaction between dolphins and humans; "aspiring to human life" is poetic inference, however.
Note Also collected in New Collected Poems, Gallery Press, 2011, p.346-347.