{"product_id":"after-the-titanic","title":"After the Titanic","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver forty-five years have elapsed since Derek Mahon announced his arrival at the forefront of Irish literary life with the release of \u003cem\u003eNight-Crossing\u003c\/em\u003e, but he remains an elusive figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first comprehensive biography of Ireland’s greatest living poet, Stephen Enniss uncovers a remarkable personal story. Here he establishes the life circumstances which stimulated or provoked Derek Mahon into poetic response, detailing for the first time his troubled upbringing in Belfast, his youthful suicide attempt and his decades-long struggle with alcoholism. He sets Mahon’s poems against these personal struggles and in doing so reconnects the work to the life while also making a compelling case for the restorative power of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive archival research, interviews with Mahon himself, his family members, classmates, colleagues and others he is closely associated with, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e sheds new light on some of Ireland’s best-loved poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Mahon is the central figure, the book also contributes to our understanding of the other giants of Irish poetry who came of age with him in the 1960s, Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘Derek Mahon is one of our greatest lyric poets; for all those who love his work, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e will be required reading.’\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNicholas Grene, Professor of English Literature, School of English, Trinity College, \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e‘Mahon is the most elegant yet daring poet of his generation, as this book reveals.’\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Montague\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon \u003c\/em\u003eis a portrait of an artistic life in motion and stirring reflection on the capacity of great poetry to fashion something lasting of our deepest fears and insecurities.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gill Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55124061290883,"sku":"9780717164417","price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0910\/3664\/7811\/files\/5d3e4472f013be2304752c04c6468519.jpg?v=1741015998","url":"https:\/\/shop.gill.ie\/products\/after-the-titanic","provider":"Gill","version":"1.0","type":"link"}