Poem

The Woods

Title The Woods
Author Derek Mahon

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
New Collected Poems 2011 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #1936
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology New Collected Poems
Date of Publication 2011
Publisher The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s) 123-124
Publication Overview
Translation Is Multilingual Explicit Irish Context? Ekphrasis Has Paratext? Reference to News, Media or Technology
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Details
Human Rights Issues
War / Genocide Referenced
Languages
Genre Short Lyric
Medium Print Collection
Notes First published in The Hunt by Night (1982). Speaker remembers a stay at a remote cabin with addressee, imagined as located somewhere in or near Russia. The clock has stopped when "Lenin arrived at Petrograd". There is also a reference to abandoned wartime gas masks.
Is bunachar beo é seo. Entries continue to be updated.