The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett Carcanet funny and heartbreaking all at

funny and heartbreaking all at once

She is currently reading History and English Literature at the University of Oxford

Pat Edwards

and the unseen forces that shape our lives

The poems keep each other company in this highly original compilation

The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett Carcanet funny and heartbreaking all atPublished 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