Poem

Freehold

Title	Freehold
Author	John Hewitt

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Collected Poems of John Hewitt	1991	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2643

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Collected Poems of John Hewitt
Date of Publication	1991
Publisher	Blackstaff Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	369-386

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: Second World War
Irish Context	Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned WW II (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Lyric Sequence
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This poem primarily depicts a scene which is an alternative to the destruction of WW2 as suggested in the line: ‘I stepped clean out of Europe into peace’. Specific mention of Warsaw and Yangtze is made (along with several brief mentions of the war).

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