Poem

Wire

Title	Wire
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 #1783

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Poems 1968-1998
Date of Publication	2001
Publisher	Faber and Faber (UK)
Page Number(s)	448-450

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	HR & Weapons of Mass Destruction (incl. nuclear)
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War War: Unspecified war
Irish Context	Other Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The poem, first published in Hay (1998), is set in the US, and focuses on the image of wiring a bomb; a Northern Irish context is suggested. Moreover, the reference to the 'school lunchbox' refers to 12-year-old Reiko Watanabe's lunch box, which survived the US's atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, and which is on display in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The references to Ceylon/Sri Lanka evoke the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) and the hundreds of suicide bombings carried out by the Tamil Tigers terrorist group LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam).

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