Poem

Incantata

Title Incantata
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 #1778
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Poems 1968-1998
Date of Publication 2001
Publisher Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s) 331-341
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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No
Yes
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Details
Human Rights Issues
Irish Context
Languages
Genre Dramatic Monologue
Medium Print Collection
Paratext Text In memory of Mary Farl Powers
Notes The poem's context is very personal, but it also addresses wider questions of the relationship between art and suffering. There are references to individual violent events, e.g. the Battle of Chickamauga in the American Civil War, and the assassination by the IRA of The Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a British statesman and colonial administrator. First published in The Annals of Chile (1994).
Is bunachar beo é seo. Entries continue to be updated.