Poem

Nightwalker

Title Nightwalker
Author Thomas Kinsella

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Collected Poems (Thomas Kinsella) 2001 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #2955
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Collected Poems (Thomas Kinsella)
Date of Publication 2001
Page Number(s) 76-84
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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Details
Human Rights Issues
War / Genocide Referenced
Irish Context
Languages
Genre Lyric Sequence
Medium Print Collection
Notes A sequence with narrative elements, focuses on Dublin and Ireland in the 1960s in a style that is often mythologised and allegorical. The speaker/narrator's encounter with German investors prompts associations with the holocaust, of "red glare" and "blazing fat" as the "oven doors close". From Nightwalker and other poems (1968).
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