Autumn Journal

Publication Instance Details #3003

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	War Genocide Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War War: Spanish Civil War War: Second World War Genocide: Holocaust
Irish Context	Political Independence (Ireland) Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This book-length poem is deeply attentive to the contemporary moment and to the imminence of WW2. The numerous references in the poem include: In canto V: Hitler; the Slovak politician and journalist, Milan Hodža; Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein, a leading Sudeten German politician in Czechoslovakia; The Maginot Line, a line of concrete fortifications built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany. In canto VI: The Spanish Civil War. In canto VII: Hitler; Prague and Belgium. In canto VIII: blackout practice; The Munich Agreement; the invasion of Czechoslovakia. In canto X: Flanders. In canto XV: Gallipoli; Flanders; Roger Casement; Maud Gonne; Irish Independence and the Northern Irish Troubles. In canto XVIII: poverty and concentration camps.