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

Best Single Poem (Written)

" (A Word in Your Ear)

and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator

The poetry of the Second World War appears in a new context

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,