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In it she explores the ethical and lifestyle arguments for a plant-based diet through her own experience of turning vegan at thirty

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

To Star the Dark Anne Graham the Washington PostDo 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