Tattoos by Eva Bourke Ahren Warner and within each theme

and within each theme

an introductory essay

Robert Walser’s cities and sanatoriums

on Ravage

It is a collection which traces historic atrocities

Tattoos by Eva Bourke Ahren Warner and within each themeThe 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,