Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Tom Walker is Associate Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin.

'The 18 contributors to this collection of essays bring the poetry alive, not that there was a danger of it being forgotten. Throughout the volume, the level of respect for the author is apparent in the meticulous scholarship. The late Gerald Dawe takes us on an illuminating tour of Mahon’s Belfast. Lucy McDiarmid tracks the circuits of the poet in Manhattan in the 1990s (and makes manifest the coherence of The Hudson Letter). Relationships with music, painting, politics, class, and French and American poetries are each illuminated by people with true expertise.' Adrian Frazier, Irish Times

• IntroductionNicholas Grene and Tom WalkerI. AffiliationsMahon, Coleridge, Yeats: The Given LifeMatthew Campbell‘Hold on to that dissolving map’: Places and Displacements in Mahon and MacNeiceEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinThe ‘Mighty Four’ and More: Mahon and American PoetryPhilip Coleman‘Vivid Contact’: Good Faith in the Poetry of Mahon and BolandCatríona ClutterbuckMahon and Morrissey: The Thing and the Thing MadeLucy CollinsII. Locations‘A Worldly Time’: Mahon and BelfastGerald DaweMahon’s New YorkLucy McDiarmidMahon’s Cosmopolitan LimitsJustin QuinnIII. AestheticsMahon’s Defence of PoetryEdna LongleyTwinning ‘Infinite’ with ‘Fulfilment’: Rhyme and the Paradoxes of Choice in Mahon’s Early PoetryAdam Hanna‘Late Listening’: Music in Mahon’s PoetryMaria JohnstonSurfaces and Superficialities in MahonGail McConnellFrom France to la Francophonie: Mahon’s Translation of UnbelongingClíona Ní RiordáinIV. PoliticsTowards the New Atlantis: Mahon’s Early PoliticsTom WalkerMahon’s Class UneaseNicholas GreneMahon’s ‘Late Sacramental Gleam’Seán Hewitt‘songs to be sung beyond the human’: Mahon’s Terminal EcologiesSam SolnickLate Mahon: Resistance and the MediumHugh Haughton

Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Tom Walker is Associate Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin.

'The 18 contributors to this collection of essays bring the poetry alive, not that there was a danger of it being forgotten. Throughout the volume, the level of respect for the author is apparent in the meticulous scholarship. The late Gerald Dawe takes us on an illuminating tour of Mahon’s Belfast. Lucy McDiarmid tracks the circuits of the poet in Manhattan in the 1990s (and makes manifest the coherence of The Hudson Letter). Relationships with music, painting, politics, class, and French and American poetries are each illuminated by people with true expertise.' Adrian Frazier, Irish Times

• IntroductionNicholas Grene and Tom WalkerI. AffiliationsMahon, Coleridge, Yeats: The Given LifeMatthew Campbell‘Hold on to that dissolving map’: Places and Displacements in Mahon and MacNeiceEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinThe ‘Mighty Four’ and More: Mahon and American PoetryPhilip Coleman‘Vivid Contact’: Good Faith in the Poetry of Mahon and BolandCatríona ClutterbuckMahon and Morrissey: The Thing and the Thing MadeLucy CollinsII. Locations‘A Worldly Time’: Mahon and BelfastGerald DaweMahon’s New YorkLucy McDiarmidMahon’s Cosmopolitan LimitsJustin QuinnIII. AestheticsMahon’s Defence of PoetryEdna LongleyTwinning ‘Infinite’ with ‘Fulfilment’: Rhyme and the Paradoxes of Choice in Mahon’s Early PoetryAdam Hanna‘Late Listening’: Music in Mahon’s PoetryMaria JohnstonSurfaces and Superficialities in MahonGail McConnellFrom France to la Francophonie: Mahon’s Translation of UnbelongingClíona Ní RiordáinIV. PoliticsTowards the New Atlantis: Mahon’s Early PoliticsTom WalkerMahon’s Class UneaseNicholas GreneMahon’s ‘Late Sacramental Gleam’Seán Hewitt‘songs to be sung beyond the human’: Mahon’s Terminal EcologiesSam SolnickLate Mahon: Resistance and the MediumHugh Haughton

Nicholas Grene is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Trinity College Dublin. Tom Walker is Associate Professor in Irish Writing at Trinity College Dublin.

'The 18 contributors to this collection of essays bring the poetry alive, not that there was a danger of it being forgotten. Throughout the volume, the level of respect for the author is apparent in the meticulous scholarship. The late Gerald Dawe takes us on an illuminating tour of Mahon’s Belfast. Lucy McDiarmid tracks the circuits of the poet in Manhattan in the 1990s (and makes manifest the coherence of The Hudson Letter). Relationships with music, painting, politics, class, and French and American poetries are each illuminated by people with true expertise.' Adrian Frazier, Irish Times

• IntroductionNicholas Grene and Tom WalkerI. AffiliationsMahon, Coleridge, Yeats: The Given LifeMatthew Campbell‘Hold on to that dissolving map’: Places and Displacements in Mahon and MacNeiceEiléan Ní ChuilleanáinThe ‘Mighty Four’ and More: Mahon and American PoetryPhilip Coleman‘Vivid Contact’: Good Faith in the Poetry of Mahon and BolandCatríona ClutterbuckMahon and Morrissey: The Thing and the Thing MadeLucy CollinsII. Locations‘A Worldly Time’: Mahon and BelfastGerald DaweMahon’s New YorkLucy McDiarmidMahon’s Cosmopolitan LimitsJustin QuinnIII. AestheticsMahon’s Defence of PoetryEdna LongleyTwinning ‘Infinite’ with ‘Fulfilment’: Rhyme and the Paradoxes of Choice in Mahon’s Early PoetryAdam Hanna‘Late Listening’: Music in Mahon’s PoetryMaria JohnstonSurfaces and Superficialities in MahonGail McConnellFrom France to la Francophonie: Mahon’s Translation of UnbelongingClíona Ní RiordáinIV. PoliticsTowards the New Atlantis: Mahon’s Early PoliticsTom WalkerMahon’s Class UneaseNicholas GreneMahon’s ‘Late Sacramental Gleam’Seán Hewitt‘songs to be sung beyond the human’: Mahon’s Terminal EcologiesSam SolnickLate Mahon: Resistance and the MediumHugh Haughton