The daily poem: After the Titanic

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Derek Mahon was born in Belfast in 1941 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He has worked as a journalist and screenwriter. He has published six books of verse and several verse translations of plays. Selected Poems is published by Penguin at pounds 6.99.