Tara Bergin (born 1974) is an Irish poet.
Tara Bergin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tara Bergin 1974 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Alma mater | Newcastle University |
Career
editTara Bergin was born in 1974 and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 and by 2012 she was awarded her PhD from Newcastle University with a thesis on Ted Hughes’s translations of János Pilinszky. Bergin now lives in Yorkshire. She won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize in 2014 with her collection This is Yarrow.[1][2][3] In 2014 she was also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society.[4] Her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize[5] and the Poetry Now Award.[6]
Bergin is now part-time lecturing in Creative Writing (Poetry) in Newcastle University.[7][8] In 2019 she was a contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019).
Books
edit- This is Yarrow. Carcanet. 25 July 2013. ISBN 978-1-84777-287-9.
- The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. Carcanet. 7 August 2017. ISBN 978-1-78410-381-1.
Further reading
edit- Tara Bergin; Marina Tsvetkova; Christopher Whyte (2014). "Looking for/Longing for/Sick for Home: Marina Tsvetaeva in English Translation". Translation and Literature. 23 (3): 336–363. doi:10.3366/tal.2014.0163. ISSN 0968-1361.
- Bergin, Tara (2013). Ted Hughes and the literal: A study of the relationship between Ted Hughes's translations of János Pilinszky and his poetic intentions for Crow (PhD Thesis). Newcastle University. hdl:10443/2214.
References
edit- ^ "Three Irish poets dominate Forward Prize shortlist". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Irish Times Poetry Now Award shortlist revealed". The Irish Times.
- ^ "Tara Bergin's poetry is a perfect guide to these frightened, frightening times". The New Statesman.
- ^ "Tara Bergin in conversation and reading her poetry".
- ^ Parmar, Sandeep (20 October 2017). "Why the TS Eliot prize shortlist hails a return to the status quo". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 21 December 2023. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ^ "Leontia Flynn wins Irish Times Poetry Now Award". www.irishtimes.com. Retrieved 4 September 2019.
- ^ "ABOUT TARA BERGIN".
- ^ "Tara Bergin".