The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett Ross Cogan addresses us ever more urgently

addresses us ever more urgently two centuries later

Whether it's a poem about socks or spaniels

and ecological grief

"Poems is a vast slab of a thing

test the limits of translation

The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett Ross Cogan addresses us ever more urgentlyPublished 28th April 2025. Self and history collide, selves fracture, the flag is divided, monuments collapse. In her sixth collection, Sarah Corbett considers the fragments we might hold against dissolution, whether personal, national, or global. Midnight in Leningrad, 1940, Anna Akhmatova waits for a poem to arrive, in her hand an egg; on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a writer recalls her breakdown as a student in 1989. In the