Sorry, very sloppy.Thank you for sharing this beautiful poem. Derek Mahon is an accomplished poet from Northern Ireland, having studied at Trinity College Dublin and the Sorbonne in Paris. The programme finished with Mahon reading his poem Everything Is Going To Be Alright, a piece which conveys a message of hope amid dark times. Great site many thanks for taking the time and effort to do this.Thank you! Thank you so muchJust stumbled on this this morning thanks to afriend in Dublin who ent me – here in Germany- a link to a gigy by the Irish band Scullion with a reading of this poem. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I first read Derek Mahon’s ‘Everything is Going to be All Right’ as an undergraduate, somewhere towards the end of my degree, at a stage of life when everything did indeed seem hopeful and untainted by disaster and breakdown. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Lifesaving Poems: Naomi Jaffa’s ‘Some of the Usual’
Take care. I loved the poem, thanks for pointing me to it. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. This blog is archived by the British Library. Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941, and now lives in Kinsale, County Cork. In doing that I feel my eyes are open like never before to the beauty that has always been there. Stephen Dunn talks about poems as a ‘correction’; and there is Frost’s ‘momentary stay of execution. The final week was the one that I had the most posts still to prep for and it turns out that a pandemic-related lockdown will kill any sense of clarity and creativity in my thinking!I am hoping to have a review up tomorrow, but that may be the last I’m afraid.Still, on a positive note, I have enjoyed sharing some poems by Irish writers with you this week and today is one of my favourites.So much so that it is becoming a bit of a mantra for me at the moment.Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941, and now lives in Kinsale, County Cork. I like your comments on influence. I will check out ‘Kinsale’ as it is not known to me, thank you for that, and with good wishes as ever Anthony � Anthony Wilson Riddance, my new book of poems, is now available.
Tonight at 7pm. Hope you are doing ok?Only a slight temperature, Cathy, which emerged today. Everything is going to be all right. Deck Shoes, a book of prose memoir and criticism, and The Afterlife, my fifth book of poems, are available now from Impress Books and Worple Press. I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I think it’s so true about making decisions when you are younger, the import of which you don’t realise until very much later.A poem I particularly love by Mahon and which does seem to me to have an unbridled optimism is ‘Kinsale’. As for the ugly things…they must be tolerated since there is no choice. You are probably right. Thank you both for this and for carrying on with Read Ireland Month as long as you felt you could.
To be honest, the blog has been a very welcome distraction and we all need that at the moment. As there are no testing kits around I’ll never know if it just another bug or the big one. Thank you for sharing.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Previous post: Pillar Talk by Colette Bryce: A poem for #readingirelandmonth20Next post: To Be A Machine by Mark O’Connell #readingirelandmonth20 So, my enthusiasm for Reading Ireland Month is starting to wane. “s” missing in “sent”. Temperature and a tickly throat, but given that I get that about 5 times a year, it’s really hard to say!
Having been ill too the line about the watchful heart resonates. I like this kind of bravado in a poem, albeit in a tone of low-key assertion. About to go on RTE in Ireland on the Arena show. You can buy it on my website. Good wishes, AnthonySincere apologies for the typos. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I know it is not true but nevertheless while I am in what John Gardner calls the dream of its narrative I am once again prepared to believe it and live it a little stronger perhaps in the moments after reading it as I pad downstairs to make coffee. Funny, I’m the same. This too shall pass.Well done for persisting, Cathy, despite the fact that there is a lot else that must be on your mind. That line – that is the heart of the poem, isn’t it? I needed to read this today.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Derek Mahon , from Selected Poems I first read Derek Mahon’s ‘Everything is Going to be All Right’ as an undergraduate, somewhere towards the end of my degree, at a stage of life when everything did indeed seem hopeful and … Another quietly beautiful piece, Cathy. Fierce willingness to enjoy life: there is a great phrase to take into the day. “We contemplate at last/shining windows, a future forbidden to no-one.”Dear Clarissa Many thanks for your comment -again!- on my site. Love for Now, my memoir of cancer, is published by Impress Books. Everything is going to be all right. This is a mystery to me, but I celebrate it nevertheless. My current research project is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/.
It is what anchors it down with a touch of meloncholy, of gravity and perhaps that’s what makes the rest of the poem lighter, freer. My reaction on reading it is was a kind of falling in love, infatuation followed by obsession, taking the book in which I found it (a library copy of his I loved it so much I stole the title and final line in my poem ‘Here’, the final poem in my first book of poems As Raymond Carver says in his essay ‘Fires’, I am talking about real Now of course I am returning to the poem as a middle aged man and I read it completely differently. Everything is going to be all right. It is as though, while we are in the dream of the poem, that the awfulness is kept at bay -even in poems about atrocities, paradoxically. '. I didn’t see it as a dark line – it seemed more of a wry acknowledgement of what lies ahead, while asserting a fierce willingness to enjoy life.So pleased you like this one. and the far cities are beautiful and bright. My anthology Lifesaving Poems, based on the blog of the same name, is available from Bloodaxe Books.
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