Poem

After Afterlude

Title After Afterlude
Author Medbh McGuckian

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology Year of Publication Medium View Details
Blaris Moor 2015 Print Collection View Details
Publication Instance Details #3369
Collection/Anthology Details
Collection/Anthology Blaris Moor
Date of Publication 2015
Publisher The Gallery Press (Ireland)
Page Number(s) 77
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 Collection
Notes This poem does not explicitly address the Holocaust but does draw on quotations from poets of witness such as Paul Celan and Rose Ausländer. Shane Alcobia-Murphy has identified an important intertext: 'German and European Poetics after the Holocaust', edited by G. Hofmann et al. Like other poems by McGuckian in this dataset, accounts of witness from other sources are incorporated into her poems. This is a self-reflexive technique that underscores the challenges of bearing witness to atrocities such as the Holocaust. See Shane Alcobia-Murphy, 'Living so Far from Words', RISE 1.1 (2016).
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