To Star the Dark Anne Graham Belinda Cooke on Vasko Popa

Belinda Cooke on Vasko Popa

is suddenly thrust into the spotlight

and which warning lights should you never ignore

UTOPIA PIPE DREAM MEMORY builds upon impossible imagined intimacies

Scott Fitzgerald It’s 1941

To Star the Dark Anne Graham Belinda Cooke on Vasko PopaDo 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