LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland-born poet Derek Mahon, whose verse brought ... after a short illness. One of Mahon’s poems, “Everything Is Going to be Alright,” gained new fame when it ...

Derek Mahon was the only son of ... One had to rejoice at the personal contentment Mahon found during his last decades. Six collections of new poems came out of his final harbour in Kinsale.

Derek Mahon’s body of work revealed a poet that ... He tried hard to get Desmond O'Grady onto the Oxford poetry list, he helped many local writers and many blow-ins. He was the first man to ...

The bibliography and chronological list of individual poems is a work of Allen Wade ... advocacy of this literary biography. Derek Mahon is a genius of a poet. Instinctively lyrical like his ...

Derek Mahon, the Belfast-born poet whose verse “Everything is going to be alright” consoled millions during the height of the pandemic, has died after a short illness. He was 78. The poem ...

The wanderings were reflected in his verses. “In Derek Mahon’s exemplary poems displacement is all,” Edward Hirsch wrote in The New York Times in 1992, reviewing “Selected Poems,” works ...