Poem

Downstream

Title	Downstream
Author	Thomas Kinsella

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry, 1914-1945	2009	Print Anthology	View Details
Collected Poems (Thomas Kinsella)	2001	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2957

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Collected Poems (Thomas Kinsella)
Date of Publication	2001
Page Number(s)	47-50

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Genocide
War / Genocide Referenced	Genocide: Holocaust
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned Colonization and Colonial Legacy (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	A paddle downstream on a river with a companion prompts in the speaker's mind associations with recent European history and war, including echoes of the holocaust, with "tall chimneys" that "sweated war", and "nude herds of the damned". From Downstream (1962).

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