Derek Mahon (born 23 November 1941 ) is an Irish poet . Unsourced It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude....
Derek Mahon is one of a significant number of poets from Northern Ireland who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has published five full collections of verse to date, as well as a number of shorter volumes of poems, and is widely...
Joseph Francis Mahon opened Mahon's Market in Attleboro when he was 19. During the next 48 years, he became more than the neighborhood grocer. Many customers considered him family. "On his way home from work, he would deliver groceries," said his daughter, Roberta...
Anna Norgren Mahon is the American record-holder in the hammer throw. Don't tell anyone, though. It's a secret. Not only are Mahon and her record largely overlooked, many people don't even know that the hammer is actually a ball - a 9-pound stainless...
In the following essay, Redmond compares Mahon's verse-letters to the work of W. H. Auden to highlight his use of a casual tone. Also drawing from Auden's essay on “Light Verse,” Redmond contends that Mahon's efforts to seem casual or self-effacing are undermined by their apparent artfulness.
In the following essay, Clutterbuck interprets Mahon's position on the link between art and reality as negative and sometimes cynical, doubting the existence of meaning in either art or life.
