Derek Mahon



Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet.

Quotes

 * It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.
 * Paris Review' 154, Spring 2000


 * And in a disused shed in Co. Wexford, Deep in the grounds of a burnt-out hotel, Among the bathtubs and the washbasins A thousand mushrooms crowd to a keyhole.
 * Poem A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford (lines 10-13); in The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse ed. D. J. Enright


 * Include me in your lamentations.
 * After the Titanic