Tara Bergin (73 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot PrizeA 2017 Poetry Book Society RecommendationShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now AwardShortlisted for the Gladstone's Library 2019 Writers in ResidenceFeatures the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year AwardFollowing her 2013 debutThis 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.'.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot PrizeA 2017 Poetry Book Society RecommendationShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now AwardShortlisted for the Gladstone's Library 2019 Writers in ResidenceFeatures the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year AwardFollowing her 2013 debutThis 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.'.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. 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 Bergin's second collection of poems of love and hate inspired by the story of Eleanor Marxs translation of Madame Bovary. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A brilliant debut collection by a Dublin-born poet and translator.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024 Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023 Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023 Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comic sequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus of exchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between the making of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustained activity, an authority which is always here called into question. Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuity and panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.…

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Condition: New. pp. 88.

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Paperback. Condition: New. Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024 Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023 Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023 Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comic sequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus of exchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between the making of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustained activity, an authority which is always here called into question. Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuity and panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.…

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Condition: New. pp. 88.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comic sequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus of exchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between the making of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustained activity, an authority which is always here called into question. Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuity and panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time. This third highly inventive collection by Tara Bergin is a diary-reflection on the savagery of modern life told in a series of fragmented entries. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 87 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.