Derek Mahon: Stanzas for Mary Stuart

Derek Mahon

• About the poet
• Series / Collections / Collected Works
• Poems with Classical referents
  • XVIII: A Bangor Requiem
  • A Building Site
  • A Garage in Co. Cork
  • A Kensington Notebook
  • A Night with Cynthia
  • A Quiet Orgy
  • A Quiet Spot
  • A Siren
  • XVI: America Deserta
  • VII: An Bonnán Buí
  • ...and at Baiae
  • XII: Aphrodite’s Pool
  • Ariadne on Naxos
  • Ash and Aspen
  • At the Chelsea Arts Club
  • IX: At the Gate Theatre
  • Autumn Skies
  • II: Axel’s Castle
  • Balcony of Europe
  • Beached Whale
  • Calypso
  • Chorus from Antigone
  • Circe and Sirens
  • Cynthia's Ghost
  • Dawn at St. Patrick’s
  • De Quincey in Later Life
  • Epic Love
  • from ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’
  • Galatea
  • Ghost
  • Glengormley
  • Going Home
  • VIII: Hangover Square
  • Harbour Lights
  • Heraclitus on Rivers
  • Homage to Gaia
  • Homage to Goa
  • Homage to Malcolm Lowry
  • How to Live
  • XVII: Imbolc
  • Immortality
  • In Carrowdore Churchyard
  • Ithaca
  • IX
  • XVI: Key West
  • Light Music
  • Lives
  • Love Not War
  • Lucretius on Clouds
  • October in Hyde Park
  • Mediterranean
  • Ovid in Love
  • Ovid in Tomis
  • VIII: Ovid on West 4th
  • Quaderno
  • Rage for Order
  • Research
  • Roman Script
  • XIII: Sappho in ‘Judith’s Room’
  • September in Gt. Yarmouth
  • IV: ‘shiver in your tenement’
  • Simulacrum
  • XV: Smoke
  • X: St. Mark’s Place
  • Stanzas for Mary Stuart
  • The Antigone Riddle
  • The Blackbird
  • The Chimeras
  • The Cloud Ceiling
  • The Dream Play
  • X: The Idiocy of Human Aspiration
  • The Lady from the Sea
  • The Long Road to Sichuan
  • The Midnight Note
  • The Mute Phenomena
  • The Seaside Cemetery
  • XVII: The World of J. G. Farrell
  • To Cynthia in the Country
  • Tractatus
  • Under the Volcanoes
  • Water
  • Wave Shadow
• Plays with Classical referents
• Selected bibliography