Derek Mahon: Homage to Goa

*Poem Title*	*Original Publication*	CP Page no
*Homage to Goa*	Life on Earth, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2008	Not included in CP

Allusion to Classical figure Dionysus

Classical/post-Classical intertexts Dionysus is portrayed as brother of the Hindu god Krishna

Comment The poem's title echoes that of Mahon's 'Homage to Gaia' sequence, in the same volume.

Note Also collected in New Collected Poems, Gallery Press, 2011, p.327-328.

Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English from c.1970