Description
About the Author
Tara Bergin is an Irish poet. Her first collection, This is Yarrow (2013), won the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry, and the Shine/Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish author. She received an Arts Council Ireland Literature Bursary to write her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (2017), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and chosen as Best Poetry Book of the year by The Times and The Irish Times. She now lives in the North of England.
Reviews
'Bergin's is an original voice of great power that flicks between speech and song, and between the borrowed and the wholly owned, with consummate ease.' - W.N. Herbert (Chair of the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize Judging Panel)
Awards
Short-listed for The Pigott Poetry Prize 2023 and The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023.
Book Information
ISBN 9781800172319
Author Tara Bergin
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd