The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light

Praise for The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light (Vine Leaves Press, early 2025):

A stunning collection—a triumph—and will deeply affect nonbe- lievers and spiritual seekers. Powerful, personal, and purifying.

—Heather Sellers
Author of Field Notes from the Flood Zone

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The Gospels meld with a contemporary poet’s sometimes skeptical sensibility to create a playful and engaging alchemy. And if that weren’t enough, add a visual artist’s series of arresting black and white sketches from the life of Jesus that, like stations of the cross, add a layer of tension that kept me engaged.
—Francisco Aragón
Author of After Rubén

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In Starkey’s poems, the miraculous walks arm in arm with the mundane in language that, at turns, carries notes of liturgical gran- deur and captures the music of the colloquial.
—Todd Copeland
Author of Like All Light

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The Moon Shall Not Give Her Light may be set in New Testament times but their concerns and characters are instantly recognisable in our 21st century world. Men fear female sexuality, people are forced to flee their homes by violent dictators and everyone has their own agenda, none more so than Jesus himself.
—Teresa Godfrey
Author of How Will They Name Us?