Selected Poems (Poets, Penguin)

By Derek Mahon

Book Overview

With his poem A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford, Derek Mahon is regarded with Heaney and Longley as the leader of the resurgence of Irish poetry from the late 60s onwards. This new edition revists his older work but also contains later poems.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141182334
• ISBN13: 9780141182339
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 0.6" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Verse

Phillipe Jaccotet has enough of the child like inquisition in all of us and enough of an appeal to the beautiful and romantic, to off set his imaginitive language, his modern sensibilities. I am no poetry expert, but reading the very musical verse of Jaccotet is positively a joy. Of course i didn't like all of the poetry in the book, the later ones seemed dreary. But jaccotet is a genius worth getting to know. I recomend buying this book to all those interested in French poetry in the surrealist or any other tradition.