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The Mahon Prose
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This chapter considers in depth the prose – literary-critical and otherwise – of the poet Derek Mahon, characterising both its material interests and its stylistic features. Resolutely anti-academic, Mahon’s prose was often produced as reviews and other forms of literary journalism, and one published volume is actually entitled Journalism. But his is no ordinary journalism; and a wide variety of his interests and enthusiasms is on display within it, along with both strong and subtle forms of identification: cultural, political and feminist. In addition, his prose may be read as in many ways illuminating his own poetic practice and, in the end, as a form of apology for poetry itself.
Title: The Mahon Prose
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This chapter considers in depth the prose – literary-critical and otherwise – of the poet Derek Mahon, characterising both its material interests and its stylistic features.
Resolutely anti-academic, Mahon’s prose was often produced as reviews and other forms of literary journalism, and one published volume is actually entitled Journalism.
But his is no ordinary journalism; and a wide variety of his interests and enthusiasms is on display within it, along with both strong and subtle forms of identification: cultural, political and feminist.
In addition, his prose may be read as in many ways illuminating his own poetic practice and, in the end, as a form of apology for poetry itself.
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