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Subject: BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks
Last Line: Fusillarde of question-marks
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


BELFAST CONFETTI, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks
Last Line: My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question-marks
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


BELFAST TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a girl from a dangerous town
Last Line: Because the town's too small
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


BELFAST TUNE, by JOSEPH BRODSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a girl from a dangerous town
Last Line: I dream of her either loved or killed %because the town's too small
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


CAMPAIGN, by CIARAN CARSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They had questioned him for hours. Who exactly was he?
Last Line: Drawing pints for strangers, his almost-perfect fingers flecked with scum
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Irish Unification Question


DISAPPEARANCES IN THE GUARDED SECTOR, by TESS GALLAGHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we stop where you lived, the house
Last Line: We will both come back
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland


MESSAGE FROM BELFAST FOR JUSTICE AND GERRY ADAMS, by JUNE JORDAN            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Adams, Gerry (b. 1948); Belfast, Northern Ireland


RESONANCE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When protestants march down the catholic road
Last Line: When a housefly makes its last confession.
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland; Ireland; Marching And Marches; Protest, Social; Religion


UNDER THE EYES, by TOM PAULIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its retributions work like clockwork
Last Line: A rain of turds; a pair of eyes; the sky and tears
Subject(s): Belfast, Northern Ireland