Contents: Brian Donnelly Introduction [1] .Catriona Clutterbuck "Elpenor’s Crumbling Car": Discomeection and Art in Derek Mahon [6] .Peter Deronan Know the One? Insolent Ontology and Mah,n’s R,visions [17] .Terence Brown Derek Me] .... m The Poct and Painting [38] .Michael Longley The Empty Holes of Spring: Some Reminiscences of Trinity Days & Two Poems Addressed to Derek Mahon [51] .Seamus Deane Stepping Westward Silence Love Poem [58] .Searnus Heancy More River Rhymes [60] .Eavan Boland Compact and Compromise: Derek Mahon as a Young Poet [61] .Kathleer Shields Derek Malacon’s Poetry of Belonging [67] .Pill Tinley "Harmonies and Dishamonies"~ Derek Mahon’s Praneophile Poetics [80] .John Redmond Wilful Inconsistency: Derek Mahon’s Verse-Letters [96] . Christopher Murray "For the Fun of the Thing": Derek Mahon’s Dramatic Adaptations [117] .jody Aller-Randolph Derek Mahon: A Bibliography [131] .Book Reviews by: Peter Denanan, lerusha McCormack, Derek Hand, Emer UKelly, Ulf Dantanus, Alan J. Fletcher, Declin Kiberd, D.A. Tipple, Gerard Fatty [157] .List of Books Revierved: [172] . Books Received [173]