Tattoos by Eva Bourke David Colmer This new pocketbook selection of

This new pocketbook selection of 100 essential poems from the trilogy is a Staying Alive travel companion

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Tattoos by Eva Bourke David Colmer This new pocketbook selection ofThe 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,