Poem

Exiles

Title	Exiles
Author	Leland Bardwell

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Collected Poems (Leland Bardwell)	2022	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3222

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Collected Poems (Leland Bardwell)
Date of Publication	2022
Publisher	Salmon Poetry (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	213-215

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Displacement/Forced Migration Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance Gender-based violence
Irish Context	Economic Inequality (Ireland) Emigration (from Ireland) Housing, health, education (Ireland) Great Famine (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Long (narrative) Poem
Medium	Print Collection
Paratext Text	for Geraldine O'Reilly
Notes	The poem is included in Bardwell's poetry collection Dostoevsky's Grave (Dedalus Press, 1991) and addresses issues of emigration from Ireland to America through the centuries. Interspersed with lines from letters written to relatives in America, the voices heard in these lines refer to histories of migration and exile Irish women faced in the US. References to the Famine, poverty, gender violence, exclusion, and unemployment contrast the hopes of a better life in the New World with a sense of disappointment and harsh social realism.

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