Description: In 1990, when Belfast-born Derek Mahon's Selected Poems appeared from Ireland's The Gallery Press, The New Yorker remarked on their "astonishing excellence". Now, ten years later, in this monumental Collected Poems, they have published all the poems the author "wishes to preserve" from the past four decades. Highly praised in his homeland and abroad, the work ranges in time and space from the early "Beyond Howth Head" and "A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford", to ambitious later sequences, "The Hudson Letter" and "The Yellow Book", and concludes with a selection of new poems including "Roman Script" and "St. Patrick's Day".

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