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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH | Mahon’s defence of poetry
Description: A keynote lecture delivered by Edna Longley as part of the 'Derek Mahon: Conference to celebrate poet’s life and work'.
The life and work of poet Derek Mahon will be celebrated (Friday 19th & Saturday 20th November) in Trinity College Dublin. A conference, which is being held in advance of what would have been the poet’s 80th birthday, has been organised by Trinity’s School of English in association with Poetry Ireland and will be hosted in Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
To mark the occasion an online exhibition entitled Derek Mahon: Piecing Together the Poet h...