After Hemlock (Proverse Prize Publications)

In the midst of accelerating social change AFTER HEMLOCK depicts some of the central concerns of contemporary society—the place of ethics and religion, science, commerce and technology, history and the role of memory—as well as eternal topics such as the inexorable march of time, life, love, illness, death. Poet, Musician and Librarian, GAVIN BOURKEgrew up in the suburb of Tallaght in West Dublin and lives in County Meath. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, Human Development and Irish from Dublin City University, a Master of Arts Degree in Modern Drama Studies and a Higher Diploma in Information Studies from University College Dublin. His work in English and to a lesser extent in the Irish Language broadly covers the natural and socially constructed worlds. Gavin has won international competitions for both book-length manuscripts and individual poems and is published widely internationally.