Journalism
Subtitle: selected prose 1970-1995
By: Derek Mahon ; edited by Terence Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Terence.
Series: Gallery books
Publisher: Gallery Press; Dufour Editions [distributor]
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland; Chester Springs, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Other titles: Selected prose 1970-1995
Description: Derek Mahon, best known as a poet, worked as a freelance journalist for many years, and his first prose book brings together a selection of his feature articles, lectures and book reviews. Some of these, like the essays on MacNeice and Beckett, Brian Moore and J.G. Farrell, are seriously 'literary' in nature; while others, like the reports from Coleraine, Rome and Los Angeles, are more discursive and relaxed, if not downright mischievous.
Notes: "Journalism is first published simultaneously in  paperback and in a clothbound edition on 16 August 1996"--T.p. verso.