The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett tinder buzzes with the energy of

buzzes with the energy of that vanished world

It is an emotionally raw work built on the poet’s deep wells of inner strength and heart-warming sensitivity

was a victory to be celebrated – but one where the reminders of why we continue

“KAYAKÖY offers us a fascinating guide to life’s sweet and sour

In Politics

The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett tinder buzzes with the energy ofPublished 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