Poem

Operation Market Garden

Title Operation Market Garden
Author Medbh McGuckian

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
The Southern Review 1995 Print Journal View Details
Publication Instance Details #3376
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology The Southern Review
Date of Publication 1995
Page Number(s) 446
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 Journal
Notes The title of this poem explicitly refers to 'Operation Market Garden', an unsuccessful Allied military campaign in the Netherlands in September 1944. The first-person speaker of this poem addresses her soldier-father who appears to have been injured in combat.
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