Poem

The Home Front (from Autobiographies)

Title	The Home Front (from Autobiographies)
Author	Derek Mahon

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

Publication Instance Details #1582

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)	351-352

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Genocide HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW II (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Part Of Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Anthology
Paratext Text	(for Mauric Leitch)
Notes	The poet acknowledges how the date of his birth during the Second World War coincided with the siege of Leningrad, and describes the searchlights used to spot airplanes bombing his birth city. Also refers to Jewish people released from concentration camps.

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