MAHON, DEREK, 1941-
Derek Mahon papers > Writings by Derek Mahon > Poems > Collected poems

Subseries 2.1a
Collected poems
Box 17 - 22, 62, 67, 72, 75 - 77; OP1

Box	Folder	Content
Lives (1972)
17	1	"Beyond Howth Head," TS
Poems 1962-1978 (1979)
17	2	"Open Your Books and Start Reading" [variant title: title of Teaching in Belfast], TS
The Hunt by Night (1982)
17	3	"After Pasternak," TS
17	4	The Hunt by Night, proofs with holograph corrections
Antarctica (1985)
17	5	"Antarctica," TS
17	6	"Craigvara House," MS and TS
17	7	"Death and the Sun," TS
17	8	"A Kensington Notebook," TS
OP1	1	"A Kensington Notebook," proof
17	9	"Night Drive," TS
17	10	"October," TS
17	11	"St. Eustace," MS and TS
Selected Poems (UK 1991)
17	12	Selected Poems, typescript with corrections (1 of 2)
17	13	Selected Poems, typescript with corrections (2 of 2)
17	14	Selected Poems, photocopy of proofs with holograph corrections
17	15	Additions to "Light Music" [these stanzas not in earlier edition SP 62-78], TS
17	16	Untitled, table of contents for planned collection, [ca. 1993]
The Hudson Letter (Gallery Press 1995)
Part One
17	17	"Albums," MS and TS [variant title: The Travel Section, The Wild West Picture Book]
17	18	"Anglo-Irish Clerihews," TS
17	19	"The Bird Life of Kinsale," MS and TS
17	20	"Burbles," MS and TS [variant title: "Squeals"]
17	21	"Inscription from the Old Bath House," MS
17	22	"Noon at St. Michael's," MS and TS
17	23	"An Orphan at the Door," MS and TS [variant title: "Fragile As a Shell"]
17	24	"Pygmalion and Galatea," TS
17	25	"River Rhymes," MS and TS
17	26	"The Yaddo Letter," TS
17	27	"The Yaddo Letter," TS
17	28	"The Yaddo Letter," source material
OP1	2	"The Yaddo Letter," proofs [from American Poetry Review] with corrections
17	29	"The Yaddo Letter," Gallery Press proofs with corrections
17	30	"The Yaddo Letter," Gallery Press loose sheets with corrections
17	31	"The Yaddo Letter," Gallery Books edition, 3 copies
Part Two, "The Hudson Letter"
17	32	Winter; a short walk from the 10th St. Pier, TS
18	1	I. "Last Night," TS
18	2	II. "Global Village," TS
18	3	III. "Waterfront," MS and TS
18	4	IV. "'To Mrs. Moore at Inishannon,'" TS
18	5	V. "Insider Trading Reports are Linked to Price of Bonds," TS
18	6	VI. "Sneakers'," TS
18	7	VII. "When his wronged wife Procne sat him down to eat," TS
18	8	VIII. "'Nature, not having included me in her plan," MS and TS
18	9	IX. "Auden on St. Mark's Place," TS
18	10	X. "Chinatown," MS and TS
18	11	XI. "Alien Nation," TS
18	12	XII. "Sappho in 'Judith's Room,'" MS and TS
18	13	XIII. "Beauty and the Beast," MS and TS
18	14	"Domnei," TS
18	15	"Key West," TS
18	16	"Key West," source materials
18	17	"Imbolc: JBY," MS and TS
18	18	"The Small Rain," MS and TS
18	19	Tradition and the Individual Talent [originally planned for HL], TS
18	20	The Hudson Letter, early draft, TS and notes
18	21	The Hudson Letter, early draft, MS and TS
18	22	The Hudson Letter, complete typescript
18	23	The Hudson Letter, complete typescript
18	24	The Hudson Letter, Gallery Press proofs
18	25	The Hudson Letter, jacket copy and editorial correspondence
18	26	The Hudson Letter, corrected Gallery Press proofs
18	27	The Hudson Letter, Wake Forest University Press proofs
18	28	The Hudson Letter, drafts and notes
18	29	The Hudson Letter, sources
18	30	Introduction for DM at U.S. launch of Hudson Letters, Ireland House, 23 January 1996
-	-	Hudson Letter revisions, September 1999 [See Subseries 2.1: The Yellow Book, "The Yellow Book and The Hudson Letter revisions"]
The Yellow Book (1997)
18	31	Landscape, TS
18	32	I. Night Thoughts, MS and TS
18	33	II. Axel's Castle, MS and TS
18	34	III. At the Shelbourne, MS and TS
18	35	IV. 'shiver in your tenement,' MS and TS
18	36	V. Schopenhauer's Day, MS and TS
18	37	VI. To Eugene Lambe in Heaven, TS
19	1	VII. An Bonnán Buí, MS and TS
19	2	VIII. Remembering the '90s, MS and TS
19	3	IX. At the Gate Theatre, MS and TS
19	4	X. The Idiocy of Human Aspiration, TS
19	5	XI. At the Chelsea Arts Club, MS and TS
19	6	XII. Aphrodite's Pool, MS and TS
19	7	XIII. Dusk, MS and TS
19	8	XIV. Rue des Beaux-Arts, MS and TS
19	9	XV. Smoke, MS and TS
19	10	XVI. America Deserta, MS and TS
19	11	XVII. The World of J. G. Farrell, MS and TS
19	12	XVIII. Death in Bangor, MS and TS
19	13	XIX. On the Automation of the Irish Lights, MS and TS
19	14	XX. Christmas in Kinsale, MS and TS
19	15	"Bad Girls" [originally planned for YB], MS and TS
19	16	"The Gold Rush" [originally planned for YB], MS and TS
19	17	The Yellow Book, Drafts of title and contents
19	18	The Yellow Book, TS with corrections
19	19	The Yellow Book, TS with corrections
19	20	The Yellow Book, Notes and materials
19	21	The Yellow Book, Source materials
19	22	The Yellow Book, Source materials
19	23	The Yellow Book, Gallery Press material
19	24	The Yellow Book, Gallery Press proofs
19	25	The Yellow Book and The Hudson Letter revisions, September 1999
-	-	Scrapbook with Yellow Book materials [See Subseries 2.2: Scrapbook, 1996-1997]
Words In the Air (1998)
20	1	Proofs and associated Gallery Press material
Collected Poems (1999) and Selected Poems (2000)
20	2	"After Michelangelo," MS and TS
20	3	"The Apotheosis of Tins," TS
20	4	"Camus in Ulster," TS
20	5	"Dawn at St. Patricks," TS
20	6	"A Dirge," TS
20	7	"The Dream Play," MS and TS
20	8	"from "Gramsci's Ashes," TS
20	9	"Ghosts," MS and TS
20	10	"How to Live," TS
20	11	"I am Raftery," TS
20	12	"The Idiocy of Human Aspiration," TS [revised version]
20	13	"The Mayo Tao," TS
20	14	"Night and Day," TS
20	15	"Northern Star," MS and TS
20	16	"Ovid in Love," TS
20	17	"The Race," TS
20	18	"Rock Music," TS [See also Uncollected poems, "Toward the Light"]
20	19	"Roman Script," notes and drafts, MS and TS
20	20	"Roman Script," final proofs
20	21	"Roman Script," artwork
20	22	"St. Patrick's Day, MS and TS
20	23	"Shapes and Shadows," MS, TS, and proof [includes TLS from Adrian Rice, 11 October 2000]
20	24	"A Siren," TS
20	25	"'Songs of Praise,'" MS and TS
20	26	"Squince," TS
20	27	"Stanzas for Mary Stuart," MS and TS
20	28	"A Swim in Co. Wicklow," MS and TS
20	29	Selected Poems (2000), proofs
20	30	Selected Poems, covers
20	31	Notes for Contents of Collected Poems and Selected PoemsSelected Poems
Resistance Days (2001)
20	32	"Resistance Days," TS
The Seaside Cemetery: A Version of "Le Cimetière Marin" by Paul Valéry (2001)
20	33	"The Seaside Cemetery," TS [1]
20	34	"The Seaside Cemetery," TS [2]
20	35	"The Seaside Cemetery," TS [3]
20	36	The Seaside Cemetery, TS
20	37	The Seaside Cemetery, uncorrected proof
21	1	The Seaside Cemetery, corrected proof
21	2	The Seaside Cemetery, research material: "Concerning Le Cimetière Marin" in Valéry's The Art of Poetry," photocopy
Birds by Saint-John Perse: A Version by Derek Mahon (2002)
21	3	Saint-John Perse's Oiseaux (1963)
21	4	Birds, Robert Fitzgerald's translation, photocopy
21	5	Birds, Robert Fitgerald TS with Mahon MS
21	6	Birds, TS [1]
21	7	Birds, TS [2]
21	8	Birds, TS [3]
21	9	Birds, TS [4]
21	10	Birds, TS [5]
21	11	Birds, Translator's Note, TS
21	12	Birds, proof
21	13	Birds, jacket copy
21	14	Birds, research materials
Harbour Lights (2005)
21	15	"Bash? in Kinsale," TS
21	16	"Calypso," MS and TS
21	17	"The Cloud Ceiling," TS
21	18	"During the War," MS, TS, and proof
21	19	"The Enchanted Wood," MS and TS
21	20	"A Game of Cards," TS [includes ALS, 30 April 2001, and research materials]
21	21	"A Garden God," TS
21	22	"Hampstead Graves," TS
21	23	"Harbour Lights," MS and TS
21	24	"Heathrow," MS and TS
21	25	"High Water," TS
21	26	"Jean Rhys in Kettner's," MS and TS
21	27	"Langue d'Oc," MS and TS [variant title: "Spring Song" in Adaptations]
21	28	"Lapis Lazuli," TS
21	29	"Lucretius on Clouds," TS and proofs [includes ALS from Maeve and research materials]
21	30	"New Wave," MS, TS, and proof
-	-	"On the Beach" [See "Shorelines"]
21	31	"Red Cloud," MS and TS
21	32	"Shorelines," MS and TS
21	33	"'Things,'" TS
21	34	"Where to Hide," TS
21	35	"White Cloud," TS
21	36	"The Widow of Kinsale," MS and TS
21a	1	Harbour Lights, TS with corrections [1]
21a	2	Harbour Lights, TS with corrections [2]
21a	3	Harbour Lights, TS with corrections [3]
21a	4	Harbour Lights, TS and proof
21a	5	Harbour Lights, proof with corrections
21a	6	Harbour Lights, proof
21a	7	Harbour Lights, covers [with ALS from Peter Fallon, 7 February 2005]
21a	8	Harbour Lights, epigraph, MS and TS
21a	9	Harbour Lights, notes and research material
Selected Poems, Expanded Edition (2006)
21a	10	Selected Poems (2006), proof with corrections [1 of 2] [with TLS from Sarah Hulbert, 17 November 2005]
21a	11	Selected Poems (2006), proof with corrections [2 of 2]
21a	12	Selected Poems (2006), covers [with ALS (undated) and TLS (12 July 2005) from Zelda Turner]
Adaptations (2006)
21a	13	"Ariel to Prospero," MS and TS and proof [see also "A Rilke Sequence"]
21a	14	"The Bangor Blackbird," TS [see also "From The Bangor Antiphonary"]
21a	15	"Borgeby-Gard," MS and TS [see also "A Rilke Sequence"]
21a	16	"Chorus from Antigone," MS and TS and proof
21a	17	"Chorus from Oedipus at Colonus," TS
21a	18	"The Cloud," TS
21a	19	"Dawn Songs," TS
21a	20	"From The Bangor Antiphonary," TS [includes 2 TLS, 24 January 2006 and 26 March 2006, from Kenneth Irvine and research materials]
21a	21	"Jardin du Luxembourg," MS and TS [see also "A Rilke Sequence"]
21a	22	"Love in the Afternoon," MS and TS
21a	23	"Night Drive," TS [see also "A Rilke Sequence"]
21a	24	"Night Watch," MS and TS [see also "A Rilke Sequence"]
21a	25	"Red Cloud," proof
21a	26	"A Rilke Sequence," TS [see also "Ariel to Prospero," "Borgeby-Gard," "Jardin du Luxembourg," "Night Drive, and "Night Watch"]
21a	27	"Two from Burbles," MS and TS
21a	28	"Women in Love," MS and TS
22	1	"Women in Love"
22	2	"The Young Cordwainer," TS
22	3	Adaptations, proof
22	4	Adaptations, Acknowledgments, TS
22	5	Adaptations, Foreword, TS
22	6	Adaptations, jacket copy [includes 2 ALS, 7 April 2006 and 22 March 2006, from Peter Fallon]
22	7	Adaptations, Table of Contents, MS and TS
Art Notes (2006)
22	8	"Birds," MS and TS
22	9	"Cushendun in Winter," TS
22	10	"A Lighthouse in Maine," MS and TS
22	11	"Rain," TS
22	12	"The Realm of Light," MS and TS
22	13	"Savannah Dock," MS and TS
22	14	"Studio in Antibes," MS and TS [See also Subseries 2.1a, Art Notes, "Triptych"]
22	15	"Triptych," TS
22	16	"Wave Shadow," MS and TS
22	17	Art Notes, TS with corrections [1]
22	18	Art Notes, TS with corrections [2]
22	19	Art Notes, proofs [with ALS from Peter Fallon, 3 October 2006]
22	20	Art Notes, proofs of drawings by Vivienne Roche [with ALS from Peter Fallon, 9 October 2006]
22	21	Art Notes, table of contents
Somewhere the Wave (2007)
22	22	"Biographia Literaria," TS
22	23	"Brian Moore's Belfast," MS and TS
22	24	"Circe's Cup," MS and TS
22	25	"Goa," TS [See also Subseries 2.1a, Somewhere the Wave, "Tara Boulevard"]
22	26	"The Lady from the Sea," MS and TS [See also Subseries 2.1b, "The Dying Mermaid"]
22	27	"Quaderno," MS and TS [variant title: "From 'The Italian Job'"] [includes "An Ice-Cream at Caproni's," "Beyond the Alps," "Casa Sul Mare," "Diogenes on the Shore," "Geronimo," "Pasolini," "I Pensierosi," "Paolo and Lighea," "Beatrice Hastings," and "…Dove Per Sole…"]
22	28	"The Seagull," MS and TS
22	29	"Somewhere the Wave," MS, TS, and proof [with ALS from Richard Keith, undated]
22	30	"Tara Boulevard," TS [variant title: "Gone with the Wind"] [See also Subseries 2.1a, Somewhere the Wave, "Somewhere the Wave"]
22	31	Somewhere the Wave, TS with corrections
22	32	Somewhere the Wave, proofs of drawings and watercolors by Bernadette Kiely
22	33	Somewhere the Wave, table of contents
Life on Earth (2008)/Autumn Wind (2010)/Raw Material (2011)/Echo's Grove(2013)
75	3	"After the Storm"
75	4	"Air India"
75	5	"Art and Reality"
75	6	"Ash and Aspen"
75	7	"At the Butler Arms"
75	8	"Autumn Skies"
75	9	An Autumn Wind: cover designs
75	10	An Autumn Wind: draft blurb
75	11	An Autumn Wind: proofs, final
75	12	An Autumn Wind: proofs, first
75	13	An Autumn Wind: proofs, second
75	14	"Balcony of Europe"
75	15	Baudelaire, Charles, "Antrim Road"
75	16	"Beached Whale"
75	17	"Blueprint"
75	18	Botuli-Bolumbo, Ikole, "Sensation"
75	19	Brière, Jean-F., "The Same Ardour"
75	20	"A Building Site"
75	21	"By the River"
75	22	"Carrowdore"
75	23	Ch'iu Wei, "The Thatched Hut"
75	24	"The Coconut Grove"
75	25	Corbiere, Tristan, "Insomnia"
75	26	Corbiere, Tristan, "Old Roscoff," "Insomnia"
75	27	"A Country Road"
75	28	"A Distant Echo"
75	29	Dongala, Emmanuel, "Blues for a Muted Trumpet"
75	30	"The Dream"
75	31	"Dreams of a Summer Night"
75	32	Gil-Albert, Juan, "The Siesta"
76	1	"The Grove"
76	2	"Growth"
76	3	Guillén, Jorge, "The Aspern Papers"
76	4	Guillén, Jorge, "Evening Shore"
76	5	Guillén, Jorge, "I Close My Eyes"
76	6	Guillén, Jorge, "Leaves of Grass"
76	7	Guillén, Jorge, "Nude"
76	8	Guillén, Jorge, "Mediterranean"
76	9	Guillén, Jorge, "Open Air," "Original Silence"
76	10	Guillén, Jorge, "Roadside," "Hot October"
76	11	Guillén, Jorge, "A Window"
76	12	Homage to Gaia, manuscripts
76	13	"Homage to Goa"
76	14	Homer, "Ithaca"
76	15	"Hotel Columbus"
76	16	Houllebecq, Michel, "The Clifden Road"
76	17	Houllebecq, Michel, "The Dark Garden"
76	18	Houllebecq, Michel, "Existence"
76	19	Houllebecq, Michel, "The Peace of Objects"
76	20	"Jakanachari"
76	21	"Krishna Says"
76	22	Laforgue, Jules, "Sunday"
76	23	"Lanzarote"
76	24	"The Last Monster: John Montague"
76	25	"The Least I Can Do"
76	26	Life on Earth: cover designs
76	27	Life on Earth: draft blurb
76	28	Life on Earth: proofs
76	29	Life on Earth: second proofs
76	30	Luzi, Mario, "Trout in the Water"
76	31	M'Baye, Annette, "Silhouette"
76	32	Mbeka, Monique, "A Year of Life"
76	33	M'Pondo, Simon, "The Rainy Season"
76	34	Neruda, Pablo, "Antarctica"
76	35	Neruda, Pablo, "Winter Garden"
76	36	"New Space"
76	37	"No Incinerator"
76	38	Notes, fragments, and unidentified drafts
76	39	"Notice"
76	40	"Of Montaigne in His Tower"
76	41	O'SúilleabhÁn, TomÁs Rua, "Scelig Bay"
76	42	Ovid, "Ariadne on Naxos"
76	43	Ovid, "Echo"
76	44	Petrarch, "Bedroom"
76	45	Petrarch, "Exequy"
76	46	Poems by other authors
76	47	Prevert, Jacques, "Barbara"
76	48	Propertius, "And at Baiae"
76	49	Propertius, "Cynthia's Ghost"
76	50	Propertius, "Epic Love"
76	51	Propertius, "Immortality"
76	52	Propertius, "Love Not War"
76	53	Propertius, "The Midnight Note"
76	54	Propertius, "A Night with Cynthia"
76	55	Propertius, "A Quiet Orgy"
76	56	Propertius, "To Cynthia in the Country"
76	57	Pushkin, Alexander, "Winter Morning"
76	58	De Quevedo, Francisco, "The Final Dark"
76	59	"A Quiet Spot"
77	1	Rabéarivelo, Jean-Joseph, "Cactus"
77	2	Raw Material: cover designs
77	3	Raw Material: manuscript
77	4	Raw Material: proofs
77	5	"Raw Material," manuscripts
77	6	"Reading Tagore," "Turtle Beach"
77	7	"Research"
77	8	Rigal, Denis, "Autumn in Grignan"
77	9	Rilke, Rainer Maria, "Orpheus"
77	10	Rilke, Rainer Maria, "Simulacrum"
77	11	Rimbaud, Arthur, "The Cupboard"
77	12	Rimbaud, Arthur, "The Hitch-Hiker"
77	13	Rimbaud, Arthur, "Romance"
77	14	Rimbaud, Arthur, "Two from Rimbaud"
77	15	"River Poplars"
77	16	"River of Stars"
77	17	Rostand, Edmond, "Cyrano de Bergerac"
77	18	"Sand and Stars"
77	19	"Seasons"
77	20	"Sextus and Cynthia," manuscript
77	21	Sextus and Cynthia: proofs
77	22	"She (To H.R.H.)"
77	23	Singh, Gopal, "Coco-de-Mer"
77	24	Singh, Gopal, "The Great Wave"
77	25	Singh, Gopal, "Recycling Song"
77	26	Singh, Gopal, "Sitar"
77	27	Singh, Gopal, "Slow Clouds"
77	28	Singh, Gopal, "Up at the Palace"
77	29	Singh, Gopal, "Winter Dawn"
77	30	"Soft Light"
77	31	"Synge Dying"
77	32	Tati-Loutard, Jean-Baptiste, "Luango Street"
77	33	"The Thunder Shower"
77	34	"Touching the Earth"
77	35	Tu Fu, "Autumn Fields"
77	36	"Two Poets"
77	37	"Under the Volcanoes"
77	38	"Utility"
77	39	"Wait for Me"
77	40	"Wave Song"
77	41	"Windows on the World"
77	42	"World Trade Talks"
New Collected Poems (2011)
77	43	Cover designs
77	44	Drafts of poems
77	45	Proofs, with corrections, 2011 January
77	46	Proofs, with corrections, 2011 February
Echo's Grove (2013)
62	4	Anonymous, "Oisín"
62	5	Corbière, Tristan, "Old Roscoff" and "Insomnia"
62	6	Jacob, Max, "Villonelle"
62	7	Laforgue, Jules, "Sunday"
62	8	Luzi, Mario, "Trout in the Water"
62	9	"Oriole"
62	10	Ovid, "Echo"
62	11	Petrarch, "Bedroom" and "Exequy"
62	12	Rigal, Denis, "Blinding Light"
62	13	Rigal, Denis, "Even So"
62	14	Rigal, Denis, "Lines for Li Po"
62	15	Singh, Gopal, "Slow Clouds"
62	16	Singh, Gopal, "Wind and Strings"
62	17	Jacket designs
62	18	Partial typescripts
The Flying Boats (2014)
62	19	"The Flying Boats"
62	20	"Montaigne"
62	21	"Ninth Wave"
62	22	"Palinurus"
New Selected Poems (2016)
67	6	Proofs
67	7	Selections
Rising Late (2017)
72	2	Final proofs
72	3	Working copy
Against the Clock (2018)
72	4	"After Swift"
72	5	"Against the Clock"
72	6	"An Age of Revolution"
67	11	"At the Strand Café"
67	12	"At the Window"
72	7	"Being a Dog"
72	8	"A Birthday"
72	9	"Botany"
72	10	"Brave New World"
67	8	"Bridges"
72	11	"A Bright Patch"
67	9	"A Chaste Design"
72	12	"Chorus from The Birds" [translation of Aristophanes]
72	13	"Chorus from The Clouds" [translation of Aristophanes]
67	10	"A Clearing"
72	14	"Data"
67	13	"Dead of Night"
72	15	"Domestic Interior"
72	16	"A Dove in the House"
67	14	"Durham"
72	46	"Ebb Tide"
67	15	"A Full Moon in May"
72	17	"Homage to Joseph Kell"
67	16	"Horizons"
67	17	"Howe Strand"
72	18	"Ironics"
72	19	"Ivy"
67	18	"Jersey and Guernsey"
67	19	"The Kentish Hymn"
67	20	"The Life We Know"
72	20	"Mythistorema"
72	21	"Natural Selection"
72	22	"A North Light"
67	21	Notes
72	23	"An Old Theme"
72	24	"Older Years"
67	22	"On a Drowned Girl"
67	23	"On Swimming in Lakes and Rivers"
72	25	"On Time"
72	26	"Ophelia"
67	24	"The Organist's Lament"
67	25	"Olympia"
72	27	"The Rain Forest"
72	28	"Rain Shadows" Includes proof of the version of this poem published in Rising Late
67	26	"Rising Late"
72	29	"Salisbury Avenue"
72	30	"Some Thoughts"
72	31	"Stardust"
67	27	"Stuff"
72	32	"Thanks to Georgie"
72	33	"Thing Theory"
67	28	"To Anne Bronté"
72	34	"To Hugh Houghton Retiring"
67	29	"The Tomb of Baudelaire" and "The Tomb of Edgar Poe"
72	35	"Triad for Shane McGowan"
67	30	"Trump Time"
67	31	"Voices"
72	36	"Woodpigeons at the Grove"
72	37	"Working Conditions"
72	38	Book cover designs
72	39	Draft manuscript
72	40	Partial draft manuscripts
72	41	Proofs, omitted poems
New York Time (2018)
72	42	Proofs
Discourse (unpublished)
62	23	"Descartes in Love"
62	24	"Discourse"
62	25	"Efexor"
62	26	"Retro Noir"
62	27	"A Superior Person"
62	28	"Things to do in Cobh"
62	29	Typescript drafts

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