Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy PBS autumn recommendations after the fall of the

after the fall of the military dictatorship in 1983

Negative Space draws on two recent collections published in Albania

” The introduction by Silvio Torres-Saillant

grace and eloquence

Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy PBS autumn recommendations after the fall of theA new child should mean new hope. But what if thats no longer so? Ailbhe Darcys second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust Belt, in an era of climate change and upheaval, Insistence takes stock of the parents responsibility to her child, the poets responsibility to the reader, and the vulnerability of the person in the face