Tattoos by Eva Bourke Ahren Warner and within each theme

and within each theme

In The Commune we champion platonic love and commitment

universal and redemptive in the face of mortality

rare and familiar birds

unrequited love

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,