Die Geschichte thematisiert das Sichverlieren und Finden im Lauf der Jahrhunderte, wobei sie einen besonderen Fokus auf weibliche Perspektiven legt. Der Text wird als essenziell beschrieben, um die Stimmen und Erfahrungen von Frauen in den Vordergrund zu rücken. Die Autorin Mareike Fallwickl hebt die Bedeutung dieses Werkes hervor und betont, dass es in der heutigen Zeit besonders relevant ist.
Do our passions control us or us them? These poems find themselves asking such questions in hospitals, in cellars, in Parisian parks and American laundromats, inside our screens and beyond them. Poems of blood and birdsong, of rain and desire, of aftermath and ambivalence, each spoken by a voice, which - like the starlings - sings, at once, both past and present. "Looking into the dark sky of history, Doireann Ní Ghríofa calls up an illuminating fire, a night constellated into images of passion and destruction. An astrologer of the body, its endurance and its vulnerability, Ní Ghríofa is a poet of daring skill. Lyrical, searching and enchanted, To Star the Dark is a blazing, brave collection." - Seán Hewitt "Like [Eavan] Boland, Ní Ghríofa constructs a mysterious world for her readers from the matter of ordinary life. The poems of this collection impress upon us that magic and depth can be found in the minutiae of the everyday." - Poetry Ireland Review, on Lies