To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Elhum Shakerifar It is a collection which

It is a collection which traces historic atrocities

the everyday and the fabulous

great fun to read

most travelled and most translated of all Welsh-language poets

as well as poets who’ve spent time in the North-East

To Star the Dark by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Elhum Shakerifar It is a collection whichDo 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.