Poem

Looking forward to Leave

Title	Looking forward to Leave
Author	Alan Gillis

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Here Comes the Night	2010	Print	View Details

Publication Instance Details #1014

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Here Comes the Night
Date of Publication	2010
Publisher	The Gallery Press (Ireland)

Publication Overview

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

Details

Human Rights Issues	War State Violence
War / Genocide Referenced	War: Iraq War and Insurgency
Irish Context	The Troubles/Sectarian Tensions (Ireland)
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print
Notes	The speaker is a female soldier in the British Army stationed in Bazra during the Iraq War. Her dispassionate, almost indifferent, description of the human suffering in Bazra is in marked contrast to her sexual yearnings and intention to get drunk on Remembrance Day (annual military memorial day). Also references in poem to sectarianism in Northern Ireland.

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