Description
Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in 'Mask', are both 'themselves and strangers'. 'That's all they wanted.'
*Tara, a leading contributor to Carcanet's bestselling New Poetries V, had major success with her first book This Is Yarrow (Seamus Heaney Prize, Shine/Strong Poetry Award) and was a PBS Next Generation Poet*Tara was shortlisted for the 2014 Irish Times Poetry Now Award*The Tragic Death presents a set of dramatic lyric poems about the alluring and tragic consequences of translation in its many guises*Tara, an Irish poet, currently lives in Yorkshire. She travels widely giving memorable poetry readings
About the Author
Tara bergin was born and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 and currently lives in Yorkshire. In 2012 she completed her PhD research at Newcastle University on Ted Hughes's translations of Janos Pilinszky. She won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2014 for This Is Yarrow, published by Carcanet in 2013.
Reviews
'Bergin succeeds in creating a clear voice and a dramatic situation.' - Irish Times
Awards
Commended for Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2017. Short-listed for The T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 and Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2018.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103804
Author Tara Bergin
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 8mm
*Tara, a leading contributor to Carcanet's bestselling New Poetries V, had major success with her first book This Is Yarrow (Seamus Heaney Prize, Shine/Strong Poetry Award) and was a PBS Next Generation Poet*Tara was shortlisted for the 2014 Irish Times Poetry Now Award*The Tragic Death presents a set of dramatic lyric poems about the alluring and tragic consequences of translation in its many guises*Tara, an Irish poet, currently lives in Yorkshire. She travels widely giving memorable poetry readings
About the Author
Tara bergin was born and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 and currently lives in Yorkshire. In 2012 she completed her PhD research at Newcastle University on Ted Hughes's translations of Janos Pilinszky. She won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2014 for This Is Yarrow, published by Carcanet in 2013.
Reviews
'Bergin succeeds in creating a clear voice and a dramatic situation.' - Irish Times
Awards
Commended for Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2017. Short-listed for The T.S. Eliot Prize 2017 and The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017 and Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2018.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784103804
Author Tara Bergin
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 8mm
