Tattoos by Eva Bourke Ahren Warner universal and redemptive in the

universal and redemptive in the face of mortality

unrequited love

and within each theme

on Ravage

rare and familiar birds

Tattoos by Eva Bourke Ahren Warner universal and redemptive in theThe 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,