Thoroughly enlightened & by using the lament understanding of literary tradition, Mahon come away from the tumult of Northern Ireland by using a formal, moderate, possibly restrained poetic voice. Within an era of free verse, Mahon has often written within received forms, using the broadly applied version of iambic pentameter that, metrically, resembles the "sprung foot" verse of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Occasionally verse form rhyme. Potentially a Irish landscape itself is never whole that far from either a authoritative tradition, when within his "Achill": He has besides explored a genre of ekphrasis: the poetic reinterpretation of ocular art. There he has been interested within 17th century Dutch and Flemish art. Mahon has been cited as the major influence by a total of Irish poets, including Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Eamon Grennan.

Works
Poetry

Nighttime-Crossing. Oxford University Click, 1968 Peoples. OUP,1972. A Snow Person. OUP, 1975. Verse form 1962-1978. OUP, 1979. Court around Delft. OUP, 1981. A Hunt By Nighttime. OUP, 1982. Antarctica Gallery Click, 1985. Selected Verse form. Gallery Click, 1990. Selected Verse form. Viking, 1991. A Hudson Letter. Gallery Click, 1995. A Yellow Book. Gallery Click, 1997. Gathered Verse form. Gallery Click, 1999.

Translations
A Chimeras (the version of Les Chimères, by Nerval). Gallery Click, 1982. High Instance (the version of Molière's A School for Husbands. Gallery Click, 1985. A Selected Verse form of Philippe Jaccottet. Viking, 1988. A Bacchae of Euripedes, and Racine's Phaedra. Gallery Press, 1996. Birds (the version of Oiseaux, by Saint-John Perse). Gallery Click, 2002. Cyrano first state Bergerac. Gallery Click, 2004.

Prose
Journalism: selected prose, 1970-1995. Ed. Terence Black. Gallery Click, 1996.