Poem

Poland

Title	Poland
Author	Ewa Fornal

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets	2019	Print Anthology	View Details

Publication Instance Details #2813

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Writing Home: The 'New Irish' Poets
Date of Publication	2019
Publisher	Dedalus Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	42-43

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 Displacement/Forced Migration Gender-based violence Genocide Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Second World War Genocide: Holocaust
Irish Context	Minority/refugee rights (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Anthology
Notes	The speaker of this poem expresses her lack of stable identity, between a homeland (Poland) that she views as regressive, racist, and sexist, and her new adopted country of Ireland. The speaker makes reference to the ultraconservative aspects of Poland, including their 'acceptance' of Hitler's ridding of the 'Other' during the Holocaust and World War II, church control of women in Poland, and dangerous levels of nationalism. The speaker of the poem expresses her own lack of stable identity, the lack of a 'Me' to speak of, and her efforts to 'make it to land'.

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