Poem

At the Lubyanka

Title	At the Lubyanka
Author	Theo Dorgan

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
The Ordinary House of Love	1990	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3249

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	The Ordinary House of Love
Date of Publication	1990
Publisher	Salmon Poetry (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	35

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	Death Penalty/Unlawful Detention/Incarceration Gender-based violence State Violence Terrorism/War on Terror
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The poem is set in Moscow's infamous Border Guard Service headquarters of the KGB where a Soviet prison stood as a symbol of violence. The speaker addresses directly Anna Achmatova and raises human rights issues regarding state control, maternal rights, surveillance and torture between past and present.

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