To Star the Dark Anne Graham of journeys to far-off places

of journeys to far-off places

As a poet he is widely known and well appreciated in Hungary

Shortlisted for the 2019 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

Belinda Cooke on Vasko Popa

and which warning lights should you never ignore

To Star the Dark Anne Graham of journeys to far-off placesDo 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. Looking into the dark sky of history, Doireann N Ghrofa calls up an illuminating fire, a