![]() What is rarer is to be able to pull off both these registers within a few pages and still remain recognisably oneself, but Mahon does this with apparent ease. To be able to write of courtiers and turtle doves, and then to also, elsewhere, draw the reader into a bitter, disillusioned complicitly, as in ‘Afterlives’, with its famous (and, after Mahon’s revision, somewhat neutered) exclamation, ‘What middle-class shits we are’. It is rare for a poet to be able to write a poem such as ‘Penshurst Place’, with its sumptuous traditionalism, its lilting rhythms and ornate atmosphere, its descriptions of Some of the essays (such as John Fitzgerald on ‘The Sea in Winter’) admit to a fondness for earlier versions of poems that Mahon later revised, testifying to the arresting power of the first encounter. With the poems reprinted alongside the essays, the book acts as an excellent introduction to Mahon’s work, surveying both classic poems (‘Afterlives’, ‘A Disused Shed in Co Wexford’, ‘Harbour Lights’) and lesser known works. Autumn Skies, a collection of 30 brief essays by 30 writers responding to a chosen Mahon poem, was originally intended to celebrate the occasion of the poet’s 80th birthday, but serves now as a memorial tribute. Some of the essays (such as John Fitzgerald on “The Sea in Winter”) admit to a fondness for earlier versions of poems that Mahon later revised, testifying to the arresting power of the first encounter.' - Seán Hewitt, The Irish Timesĭerek Mahon, The Poems, 1961-2020 and Autumn Skies: Writers on Poems by Derek Mahon ' Autumn Skies, a collection of 30 brief essays by 30 writers responding to a chosen Mahon poem, was originally intended to celebrate the occasion of the poet’s 80th birthday, but serves now as a memorial tribute. With the poems reprinted alongside the essays, the book acts as an excellent introduction to Mahon’s work, surveying both classic poems (“Afterlives”, “A Disused Shed in Co Wexford”, “Harbour Lights”) and lesser known works. John Banville l Sara Berkeley l Ciaran Berry Rosita Boland l Gerald Dawe l Seamus Deane Peter Fallon l John FitzGerald l Tom French Eamon Grennan l Vona Groarke l Andrew Jamison Seán Lysaght l Aifric Mac Aodha l John McAuliffe Thomas McCarthy l Medbh McGuckian Frank McGuinness l Audrey Molloy l Paul Muldoon Caitríona Ní Chléirchín l Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Annemarie Ní Churreáin l Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh Bernard O’Donoghue l Michelle O’Sullivan l Peter Sirr Gerard Smyth l Colm Tóibín l Grace Wilentz Thirty writers selected a poem by Derek Mahon and provide an essay on their choice. This might work well with a ‘consequences’ story frame: a framework of actions already written where pupils add in nouns taken from the image to make a story.Autumn Skies: Writers on poems by Derek Mahon. To stimulate creative writing: pupils could pick two or three elements of the picture and combine them to stimulate a story. To support reading of individual poems – the image can act as a visual reminder of topics, themes or narratives for students while they are completing work on poems To stimulate pre-listening discussion about what the poems might be about Using the images:Įach programme is accompanied by a composite picture inspired by the poems in that programme. Students can read the text of the poem before, during or after listening to the recording and there are suggestions in these notes for pre-, during-, and post- listening activities. ![]() ![]() You can listen to them in their entirety or listen to and focus on one poem at a time. The programmes can be used in a variety of ways. ![]() These poems are read by the actors Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The final two programmes focus on classic poetry and include a selection of well-known poems often taught at Key Stage 2. Each of the first 6 programmes profiles a different contemporary children’s poet who introduces and then reads a selection of his or her work. There are eight programmes in this series. ![]()
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