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Sat 05 May 2010The sublime sneaks in
POETRY: PHILIP McDONAGHreviews An Autumn Windby Derek Mahon, The Gallery Press, 79pp, €11.95pbk, €18.50hbk
THE EARLY Derek Mahon is a cosmopolitan poet, in the Greek sense of cosmopolites: the “citizen of the world” who brings a universal perspective to his society. A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford can be read as the response of such a cosmopolites(and caring person) to the narrow yet trusting nature of Irish society at that time.
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