To Star the Dark Anne Graham A 40-year-old woman who has

A 40-year-old woman who has never had children and never wanted to

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of journeys to far-off places

The stories in this haunting collection have appeared in literary journals and on prize shortlists with Millie and Bird winning the 2012 Costa Short Story prize

To Star the Dark Anne Graham A 40-year-old woman who hasDo 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