#Poetry Derek Mahon (Irish poet)

• Author: D. Mahon
• Title: Harbour Lights  (25 poems)
• Published: 2005
• Review: poem “Resistance”
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Reistance Days  — ( prose poem)  dedicated to John Minihan

• It is good to know about the person to whom the poem is dedicated.
• Perhaps it wll help me discover some hidden meaning or references.
• John Minihan is an Irish photographer, born in Dublin in 1946.
•  The photos are an attempt to document the lives of the ordinary people.
• Over the years Minihan developed a close relationship with many writers and his
• photographs of Samuel Beckett show a particular affinity between the two men.
• William S. Burroughs once referred to Minihan as “a painless photographer”.

NOTE:

1. I copied the poem in couplets
2. ….but Derek Mahon wrote it as a prose poem.
3. I found the prose-form difficult to read and because of its length
4. …lost interest.