Poem

It has rained all night while we slept

Title	It has rained all night while we slept
Author	Mary Dorcey

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers	1991	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3318

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Moving into the Space Cleared by Our Mothers
Date of Publication	1991
Publisher	Salmon Poetry (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	74-76

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	No	No	No	Yes

Details

Human Rights Issues	War Displacement/Forced Migration Gender-based violence Health Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Gulf War
Languages	English
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The poem conjures the image of a couple sleeping at night while the world is devastated by a number of crises alluding to the theme of empathy. References to child mortality, race, war, and poverty.

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