Poem

Bird Life

Title	Bird Life
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 #1950

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	New Collected Poems
Date of Publication	2011
Publisher	The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	149
Alternative Title	The Bird Life of Kinsale

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
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW I (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	First published as "The Bird Life of Kinsale" in The Hunt by Night (1982). Short poem focused on natural and material phenomena, but explicitly mentions the sinking of the Lusitania off the Irish coast during WW I.

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