Allen & Unwin New Selected Poems book Poetry English 128 pages

An essential volume from an award-winning and critically acclaimed Irish poet.

New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon's verse, from the early lyricism to a more expansive middle period ('New York Time', 'Decadence') and the flowering of his late style, it includes recent, uncollected work and culminates in the generous, far- reaching reverie 'Dreams of a Summer Night'.

Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and now lives in Kinsale, County Cork. He has received numerous awards including the Irish Academy of Letters Award, the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Recent titles from The Gallery Press include Selected Prose, Echo's Grove (translations), Theatre and New Collected Poems.