The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett tinder In Politics

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this crisis where we all find ourselves

Lucasta Miller takes Keats's best-known poems - the ones you are most likely to have read - and excavates their backstories

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

The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett tinder In PoliticsPublished 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