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In April 2009 Derek Mahon contributed a poem called “A Country Kitchen” to “Seamus Heaney at 70”, a supplement of the Irish Times. That poem revealed signs of a literary colloquy on poetry and metaphysics which can be traced back over the full extent of their closely concurrent careers. Mahon initially showed himself a critic of the essentialist version of Irishness which Heaney promoted through his celebrated coinage “sense of place”, while Heaney appears to have adjusted his metaphysics to embrace the characteristically “placeless” anomie of Mahon’s early existentialist stance in later collections, but most notably in Seeing Things (1991) which was dedicated to Mahon. The title poem of that collection raises the question : “Where does the spirit live?” The central point of this paper is, where do the greatest contemporary Irish poets stand on the questions of spirituality and immanence in a post-Catholic, post-Christian and post-metaphysical world. In other terms, does the epithet “secular mysticism” associated with Mahon embrace both their outlooks and is the anti-metaphysical metaphysics implied in it a credible and a sufficient answer?

“Visionary Gleams” : The Metaphysical Colloquy of Derek Mahon and Seamus Heaney