Pigeon Songs by Eoghan Walls Nia Davies ' – Fatemeh Keshavarz

' – Fatemeh Keshavarz

which won the Ingrid Jonker prize

Stephanie Conn

the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work

he finds himself face to face with the prospect of his own death

Pigeon Songs by Eoghan Walls Nia Davies ' – Fatemeh KeshavarzPigeon Songs is a gorgeous second collection of poems: richly detailed, densely metaphorical, steeped in themes of love and loss. The pigeon as a totem animal rings true, suggesting both a down to earth physicality along with an ability to astonish, to take flight. From the first piece, Angry Birds we have a sense of the poets themes and preoccupations: we have a richly metaphorical and densely allusive style, a pull towards formal metre and