Belfast Confetti 在线电子书 图书标签: 北爱尔兰  poetry  irish  ciaran-carson  belfast   

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The poem from which the anthology takes its title is a reference to the pieces of scrap metal ("Belfast confetti") placed into bombs as shrapnel by the IRA, to increase their killing power: "Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining / exclamation marks, / Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the / explosion / Itself - an asterisk on the map...

The poem from which the anthology takes its title is a reference to the pieces of scrap metal ("Belfast confetti") placed into bombs as shrapnel by the IRA, to increase their killing power: "Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining / exclamation marks, / Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the / explosion / Itself - an asterisk on the map...

The poem from which the anthology takes its title is a reference to the pieces of scrap metal ("Belfast confetti") placed into bombs as shrapnel by the IRA, to increase their killing power: "Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining / exclamation marks, / Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the / explosion / Itself - an asterisk on the map...

The poem from which the anthology takes its title is a reference to the pieces of scrap metal ("Belfast confetti") placed into bombs as shrapnel by the IRA, to increase their killing power: "Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining / exclamation marks, / Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the / explosion / Itself - an asterisk on the map...

The poem from which the anthology takes its title is a reference to the pieces of scrap metal ("Belfast confetti") placed into bombs as shrapnel by the IRA, to increase their killing power: "Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining / exclamation marks, / Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the / explosion / Itself - an asterisk on the map...