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Derek Mahon: Selected Bibliography

C. Clutterbuck, ‘Elpenor's Crumbling Oar: Disconnection and Art in the Poetry of Derek Mahon.’ Irish University Review, 24 (1994), p. 6-26.

H. Haughton, The Poetry of Derek Mahon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (with extensive Bibliography and Inventory of Poems).

R. C. Homem, ‘Of Furies and Forgers: "Ekphrasis," Re-Vision, and Translation in Derek Mahon.’   New Hibernia Review  8 (2004), p.117-138.

E. Kennedy-Andrews, Writing Home: Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008.

T.Kendall, ‘ “Leavetakings and Homecomings” : Derek Mahon’s Belfast’, Eire-Ireland 29.4, 1994.

J. Knowles, 'Weather Poems' (Review of Harbour Lights by Derek Mahon). Fortnight No.437 (Sept 2005), p.29

F. Macintosh, ‘When Gael Joins Greek.’ Books Ireland 162 (1992), p.189-191.

--- 'Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead', ch.4 in E. B. Mee and H. P. Foley, Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

A. E. McGuinnes, ‘Cast a Wary Eye: Derek Mahon's Classical Perspective.’ The Yearbook of English Studies 17 (1987), p.128-142.

C. Murray, ‘“For the Fun of the Thing": Derek Mahon's Dramatic Adaptations.’ Irish University Review 24 (1994), p.117-130.

S. Perris, ‘Dionysus the Leprechaun: Genre, Identity, and Parody in Derek Mahon's Bacchae.’ Arion, Third Ser. 16 (2008), p.53-82.

W. Scammell, ‘Derek Mahon Interviewed.’ Poetry Review 81 (1991), p.4-6.

D. Tobin, ‘In the Back of Beyond: Tradition and History in the Poetry of Derek Mahon.’ Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 88 (1999), p.295-304.

General Critical Works

T. Brown, ‘Out of Ulster 2: Heaney, Montague, Mahon and Longley’ in .T. Dorgan, ed., Irish Poetry since Kavanagh, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996.

M. Campbell, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

N. Corcoran, ed., The Chosen Ground: Essays on the Contemporary Poetry of Northern Ireland, Bridgend: Seren Books, 1992.

E. Longley, The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1994.

P. McDonald, Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.