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Derek Mahon: A Quiet Spot

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A Quiet Spot

An Autumn Wind, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2010

Not included in CP (See also Note below)

Allusion to Classical figure Gaia (as in Life on Earth's 2008 'Homage to Gaia' sequence).

Comment There are echoes of the previous poem 'Ithaca' (An Autumn Wind, p.13-14) in this contemplation of the poet's retreat to "a dozy seaside town [...] after so many a fugitive year".

Note Also collected in New Collected Poems, Gallery Press, 2011, p.333.

Derek Mahon