Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy Mark Waldron is populated with family arrivals

is populated with family arrivals (often sad and confused) from Colombia and France

John's poetry collections include Spoils of War

‘All of the poems in this debut

To a Fault

Rachel Plummer

Insistence by Ailbhe Darcy Mark Waldron is populated with family arrivalsA new child should mean new hope. But what if thats no longer so? Ailbhe Darcys second collection unfolds in an intimate world, in which the words home and love dominate. But the private world is threatened by a public one. Written in the American Rust Belt, in an era of climate change and upheaval, Insistence takes stock of the parents responsibility to her child, the poets responsibility to the reader, and the vulnerability of the person in the face