To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní GhríofaDo our passions control us or us them? These poems find themselves asking such questions in hospitals, in cellars, in Parisian parks and American laundromats, inside our screens and beyond them. Poems of blood and birdsong, of rain and desire, of aftermath and ambivalence, each spoken by a voice, which like the starlings sings, at once, both past and present.

directly or indirectly

Financial TimesHow can we think about the future

providing services and how they make these things happen and why we pay taxes

To the people on the island

but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated

With God dead

Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting

our ancestors depended on wild plants and animals to stay alive - until they began to tame them

' The Times

resilience and bravery

" a promise that animates each poem in this radiant collection