Tattoos by Eva Bourke David Colmer Best Single Poem (Written)

Best Single Poem (Written)

Emma Must's bold and vivid poems remind us to stand our ground against the machine of progress

with Judith

" (A Word in Your Ear)

Tattoos by Eva Bourke David Colmer Best Single Poem (Written)The journey of Eva Bourke's eighth collection of poems is one of bereavement, heartbreak and, ultimately, renewal. In poems that record with courage and tenderness the loss of loved ones, of close family and friends, there is throughout a refusal to soften the keen gaze and precise detail for which her work is so often praised, as if the poet's role is ever to be witness, guardian and curator. Instead of heartbreak enforcing a retreat from the world,