Eva Bourke

Eva Bourke was born in Germany and lives in Galway. Among her poetry collections are Gonella (1985), with drawings by Jay Murphy, Litany for the Pig (1989), Spring in Henry Street (1996) and Travels with Gandolpho (2000). A teacher and translator, she is also the editor of a major bilingual English-German anthology of Irish poetry entitled In Green Ink / Mit Grüner Tinte (1996). Her other translations include an English language verison of Elisabeth Borchers' Winter on White Paper (2002). At present, she is working on translations of the German romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Bourke has received a number of awards and bursaries from the Arts Council. Her new collection of poems, entitled The Latitude of Naples, was published in April 2005.