Poem
Wounds
| Title | Wounds |
|---|---|
| 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 #1570
Collection/Anthology Details
| Collection/Anthology | Earth Voices Whispering: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry, 1914-1945 |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2009 |
| Publisher | Blackstaff Press (Ireland) |
| Page Number(s) | 334 |
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 | |
|---|---|
| War / Genocide Referenced | |
| Irish Context | |
| Languages | |
| Genre | Short Lyric |
| Medium | Print Anthology |
| Notes | A poem that has both a WWI context and a Northern Irish Troubles context. The son is thinking of his father, a soldier at the Western Front with the Ulster Division in the Somme, and deaths from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland over fifty years later; the speaker explicitly alludes to the murder of a bus conductor (Sydney Agnew in 1972) and 'three teenage soldiers'. From An Exploded View (1973). |
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