Poem

Ghetto

Title	Ghetto
Author	Michael Longley

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 (Michael Longley)	2006	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3097

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Collected Poems (Michael Longley)
Date of Publication	2006
Publisher	Jonathan Cape (UK)
Page Number(s)	187

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Death Penalty/Unlawful Detention/Incarceration State Violence Genocide Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War Genocide: Holocaust
Irish Context	Great Famine (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	A sequence in which the Holocaust connection is expressed through a series of events and images, including the poem's title; the gathering up of necessary belongings before departing for a certain death; a motherless child trying to protect her doll and a train passing "barbed-wire fences" in Poland; a string quartet playing at the site of attrocity. There is also an explicit Irish connection, with references to the potato blight, an allusion to the Irish Great Famine. From Gorse Fires (1991).

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