Poem
For What We Are About To Receive
| Title | For What We Are About To Receive |
|---|---|
| Author | Alan Gillis |
Instances of Publication
A published appearance of this poem.
| Collection/Anthology | Year of Publication | Medium | View Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawks and Doves | 2007 | View Details |
Publication Instance Details #1017
Collection/Anthology Details
| Collection/Anthology | Hawks and Doves |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2007 |
| 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 | |
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| Irish Context | |
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| Genre | Short Lyric |
| Medium | |
| Notes | This poem is set in Belfast. The speaker in the poem reflects on a failed love affair, consoling himself with food and beer. His relative privilege as a consumer of discounted food becomes apparent as he watches a TV broadcast about famine elsewhere; the location is not made explicit in the poem. An acute awareness in the poem of economic disparity and the inequality in food production and consumption in global context. |
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