Mahon: Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin) - Softcover

Mahon, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140587047 ISBN 13: 9780140587043

Publisher: Puffin, 1993

Synopsis

This newly expanded collection of Derek Mahon's poems includes substantial portions of two earlier volumes, The Hudson Letter and The Yellow Book, and concludes with even more recent work. Mahon blends a respect for structure with a modernist style in evocative verses that are abstract yet substantial and combines solid images from nature with elusive, complex human thoughts.

Author Biography: Derek Mahon was born in Belfast. A journalist, screenwriter, and theater critic, he has published several works of poetry. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and has won many awards, including the Lannan Award and the C. K. Scott-Moncrieff Translation Prize.

About this title

About the Author

Born in Moudon, Switzerland in 1925, Philippe Jaccottet is one of the most prominent figures of the immediate post-war generation of French poets. He has lived in France since 1953, working as a translator and freelance writer. As well as poetry, he has published prose writings, notebooks and critical essays. He is particularly well known as a translator from the German language (Musil, Rilke, Mann, Holderlin), but he has also translated Homer, Plato, Ungaretti and Montale.

Review

There is a copiousness and excitement about these poems found only in work of the highest order. -- Seamus Heaney

Verse of astonishing versatility and singing power. -- Hugh Haughton, Times Literary Supplement

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140587047
• ISBN 13: 9780140587043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208