Poem

Immrama

Title Immrama
Author Paul Muldoon

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Poems 1968-1998 2001 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #1713
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Poems 1968-1998
Date of Publication 2001
Publisher Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s) 85
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 Referenced
Irish Context
Languages
Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Notes The sonnet's final lines refer to the speaker's father, imagined as an emigrant to Argentina, drinking rum with a man "who might be a Nazi" who has escaped to South America after the War. First published in Why Brownlee Left (1980).
Is bunachar beo é seo. Entries continue to be updated.