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Intimate moments carefully re-appraised (first dates, break ups, young parenthood, etc.) are the raw material of these vivid and wholly engaging poems, written in Irish, and translated here by the author – a process that itself raises questions about poetry and truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the real achievement of Ní Ghríofa’s work is the way in which she keeps her personal history open to the wider world, to the imaginative encounters that animate so many of the poems, to an acute awareness of the restless nature of language itself, and not least to the women who preceded her and who remain a steadying and guiding presence throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308879098229,"sku":"9781910251393","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910251393_53dc889e-de0f-4fcd-bf18-c76da9f46ea7.jpg?v=1786029689"},{"product_id":"9781910251867","title":"To Star the Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Looking into the dark sky of history, Doireann Ní Ghríofa calls up an illuminating fire, a night constellated into images of passion and destruction. An astrologer of the body, its endurance and its vulnerability, Ní Ghríofa is a poet of daring skill. Lyrical, searching and enchanted, To Star the Dark is a blazing, brave collection.\" - Seán Hewitt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Like [Eavan] Boland, Ní Ghríofa constructs a mysterious world for her readers from the matter of ordinary life. The poems of this collection impress upon us that magic and depth can be found in the minutiae of the everyday.\" - Poetry Ireland Review, on \u003cem\u003eLies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313130025333,"sku":"9781910251867","price":11.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781910251867_ec83fb73-8a0d-423f-8179-9783aa42c55a.jpg?v=1786034231"},{"product_id":"9780571396160","title":"Said the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unforgettable book – both history and ghost story – that will leave you gasping by its final page.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What a ride! What she writes . . . has given me goosebumps and brought tears to my eyes' Hallie Rubenhold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book will be read for decades to come' Anne Enright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Astonishing' Yiyun Li\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Extraordinary . . . intimately researched [and] wildly imaginative' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Incantatory . . . 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Soon, she is trespassing, stealing, absconding from the routine of mother, spouse, daughter, as she uncovers a chorus of startling voices: those of the women who knew the hospital best. They murmur from archives and old records. They haunt from stairwells and walls. In them – and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning and solace, righteous anger, salvation even. Or her final vanishing?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA work of sublime intensity and tenderness, \u003ci\u003eSaid the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real, fact and fiction -- to make something new and lasting: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat readers are saying: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The most extraordinary, moving book I've read in ages, blending lyrical prose, history, deep research and lived experience. I devoured it'\u003cbr\u003e'This is truly the best book I have ever read'\u003cbr\u003e'I have been passionately recommending this book to so many people, as it's so beautifully written, but also wildly ambitious and unique'\u003cbr\u003e'Spellbinding . . . unlike anything else I’ve encountered'\u003cbr\u003e'Read it, read it, read it. Then pick it up, and read it again'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaid the Dead \u003c\/i\u003ewas a no. 1 \u003ci\u003eIrish Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller w\/e 23rd May to w\/e 6th June\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420500242805,"sku":"9780571396160","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780571396160_1589a6cf-0a2a-4069-a7c6-45297f4a0bd7.jpg?v=1786014730"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-doireann-ni-ghriofa.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}