It ends in a description of ice skaters, how they know "the enclosing sky / like the back of their hands: at home/ In the cold, making no bones of it." The programme ends by remembering Derek Mahon, who died on 1st October 2020. Or art. There are women here from every county. Ní Chuilleanáin’s treatment of memory, loss, transience, relationships and unspoken voices is demanding but ultimately very rewarding.
Peter Fallon Since 1979, counting new collections, books of translations, plays, essays, Collecteds, Selecteds and limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, The Gallery Press has issued more than 50 titles by Derek Mahon.
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There was an extraordinary clarity and ease in the tone, a light metre; the voice that was wry and understated, but also careful that the emotion would not exceed its cause. Commenting on The Irish Times has changed. “Read Derek Mahon,” Paul Durcan said to me, “ then you’ll understand.” My copy of Mahon’s OUP Selected, with the Botticelli sketches on the cover, is dated from my 16th birthday.
One of those times he peered at me and said: “And what do you do?” The room fell silent. The reburial of the Magdalene's at Glasnevin Cemetery.
Gallery Press has also this year published Eiléan's Collected Poems, with poems from nine collections, the first published in 1972, and some new work, and she reads two poems, Intimations and Key-Ring on the programme. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences. The animating force in his later work was a sense of anger and indignation at all we are doing to destroy the planet, voiced in Life ón Earth (2008). He was a great reviser, sometimes ditching lines that as a reader I was fond of, but his insistence on unshowy craft was exemplary. Or much later still, a time in Poughkeepsie, where I was teaching, when we took a walk on the nearby Campus Farm, with Derek - dapper as ever in tweed overcoat and hat - wheeling Rachel's and my daughter, Kira, in her blue stroller. John McAuliffe’s fifth book The Kabul Olympics (Gallery) came out this year. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016-19.
But, in spite of that, it was always good knowing Derek had found in Kinsale his port after storms, his safe window on the world. I was dazzled by his precocity and brilliance.
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He wrote the most entertaining letters I have ever received. We use SoundCloud to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. He will always be in my prayers. He is a major world poet not just because of the ways in which he absorbed all he saw and read, the pictures he so admired and appreciated, turning them into magnificent poems such as ‘Courtyards at Delft’ and ‘The Hunt by Night’. I met him maybe half a dozen times, and every time I had to introduce myself. We held the book like it was gold. Vona Groarke’s latest collection is Double Negative (Gallery Books, 2019).
The Magdalene laundries were institutions run by nuns. It was a celebration of Dutch art, about which Derek himself had written some lovely poems. Peter Fallon is the publisher of The Gallery Press. An American poet Derek admired wrote once "in a dark time the eye begins to see." Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. Susan McKay He has vanished where the lane turns, the last of the fire kings. He is a wonderful poet of inanimate things, as in his amazing poem ‘Lives’ dedicated to Seamus Heaney, where he imagines a whole set of transmigrations from a ‘torc of gold’ to ‘a stone in Tibet’. A poem like ‘The Globe in North Carolina’ (which I’ve just re-read), its scope and elegance, never fails to astonish me. It was just two dozen poems, thirty-eight pages.
Was it Edna Longley, who does not use the adjective lightly, who first remarked on the ambition and achievement of his big stanzas as Yeatsian? I have his 1991 Viking / Gallery ‘Selected’ -that still marks for me a highpoint of my poetry youth- beside me now. Beyond all that there were meetings in London (Observatory Lane seemed a good address for a poet who took such a wide, "panoptic" view of the world), where happily for all of us he continued writing poems among the best written - in Ireland or anywhere else - since Yeats. From that point on Derek's poems blazed a trail many of my generation in Ireland and around the globe followed, in various states of awe and sheer delight. Thomas McCarthy Exemplary in craft, learned, cosmopolitan and with a deadly sense of humour shrewdly concealed behind that Ulster demeanour; Derek Mahon was one of a kind. Vona Groarke Sparky, independent, aloof in his way, Derek was his own, private, man. Check if you have access via personal or institutional login, The Water Horse: Poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaiill with Translations into English by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, After the Raising of Lazarus: Poems Translated from the Romanian by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Acts and Monuments of an Unelected Nation: The Cailleach writes about the Renaissance, Contemporary Irish Poetry: A Collection of Critical Essays, The stone recalls its quarry: An Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality, Boland, McGuckian, Ní Chuilleanáin and the body of the nation, Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry, Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets, The Hidden Ireland: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Munster Poetry. Mahon lived for many years abroad, in the US and Canada, in London, Paris and Rome, with latterly highly productive visits to India. Please subscribe to sign in to comment. His books, benchmarks each and every one, will live on for as long as people are interested in the art and force of poetry. Derek could be wickedly hilarious company. His most recent book Against the Clock (2018) continued to express this concern for the despoiled environment, but there was there also a new and touching sense of personal serenity and happiness. I knew Derek from his student days, and have stayed in touch with him on and off ever since: just this week I had a card from him to give his blessing to an event we were planning here in College to celebrate what would have been his 80th birthday on 23 November 2021. Thought and feeling found words and forms in truly sophisticated style as Derek grew from being the maker of exquisite poems to being - from his apparently detached perch - a conscience, a cultural commentator and critic, a guiding light. Derek hadn't come in to study there, no, but to invite me to join himself and Eavan Boland for a drink in Rice's on Molesworth Street. Mahon’s poems were an object lesson in how to be cool and impassioned at once. And that is what makes all the more moving his extraordinarily affirmative poem, ‘Everything is Going to Be All Right’, which has offered many of us consolation this year. Now, as he wrote in his wonderful elegy to MacNeice: “All we may ask of you we have.” Mahon too, kept the colours new, and I will keep on going back to him. The Movie Quiz: What is Sean Connery’s last feature role? Since 2006 we've published 26. I too lived there as a child, where “there” is Derek Mahon’s poems. When you have reset your password, you can, Please choose a screen name. For Lives carried the 'iconic' photograph of Titanic emerging from behind its scaffolded housing. 2007 Irish University Review No more new Derek Mahon poems is the glummest of thoughts. Colm Tóibín In 1975 I met the poet Gerard Fanning in UCD and he told me he had an early copy of the new book by Derek Mahon, ‘The Snow Party’ and if I came to his house on Foster Avenue that evening, I could look at it with him. He had what musicians would call ‘perfect pitch’. John McAuliffe Derek Mahon’s poems changed my life. She reads two poems from Last Poems and Two Tales from Co. Meath, published by Cyphers, including a short and humorous poem called Schroedinger’s Cat - listen below: We need your consent to load this SoundCloud contentWe use SoundCloud to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. And I am still dazzled. Mahon’s was in many ways a troubled life, vulnerable to depression, heartbreakingly caught in his four-line ‘Dejection Ode’. That an often troubled soul found peace in Kinsale, in The Grove, with a loving partner, Sarah Iremonger, was right and proper, for it's easy now to remember what William Orpen said of Hugh Lane: he was hard to fathom but difficult not to adore. Not so long ago one of his poems ‘A disused Shed in County Wexford’ was in contention as Ireland’s favourite poem. I hardly knew him. Derek Mahon’s body of work revealed a poet that could draw on an easy familiarity with the classics, but which brought to them a wit and freshness that was both perceptive and provocative in equal measure. His poems were pitch-perfect, stitched (as it were) of finely-spun thread that later in life seemed to have been dipped in caustic soda, for an edge. How do you tell Derek Mahon that you too are a poet? I’m sorry he has died, but I didn’t really know him. Almost exactly 52 years ago I reviewed his first collection Night-Crossing in the Irish Times (September 30th, 1968). The poet is very knowledgeable in art, myth, history and nature and these elements inform her formidable style. Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942. He effortlessly framed and clarified centrally important ideas and longings and gifted them back to us in a beautiful and rich body of work. I told him I wanted to write poetry. The title of my next book, A Thought Might Grow, is taken from his magnificent A Disused Shed in County Wexford. He was best man at Edna’s and my wedding.
“I lived there as a boy,” Mahon says of the Dutch 17th century, “...a strange child with a taste for verse.”.
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