Poem

Rita Duffy: Watchtower II

Title	Rita Duffy: Watchtower II
Author	Paul Muldoon

Instances of Publication

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Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing	2015	Print Collection	View Details

Translations

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Title	Author	Collection/Anthology	Year	View Details
If I Only Knew	Eavan Boland	After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets	2004	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1395

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	One Thousand Things Worth Knowing
Date of Publication	2015
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	30-31

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	HR & Colonisation/Colonial Legacies Other
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Genocide of indigenous people in USA (pre 20th century)
Irish Context	Irish Language/Culture The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	While the poem's main focus is on Northern Ireland - through the painting of Rita Duffy - it also mentions Native American history and the war in Palestine.

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