Savage Tales

Tara Bergin

ISBN 9781800172319

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £15.99

‘Hers is an original voice of great power that flicks between speech and song’

W.N HERBERT (CHAIR OF THE 2017 T.S. ELIOT PRIZE JUDGING PANEL)

PUBLICATION DATE 27th October 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 8th December 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 200pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry, 1DBR Ireland

Sales Points

• Debut collection won the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry, and her second collection was a PBS Recommendation and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Irish Times Prizes

• This third highly inventive collection is a diary-reflection on the savagery of modern life told in a series of fragmented entries

• Explores creative practice and plays with form – poetry, prose, diary, creative non-fiction and translation

• Features 2 handmade poem-monoprints, where text has been typed alongside images on thin Japanese paper using a 1930s portable Underwood typewriter

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 János Pilinszky. She has published two collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry), and The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes).

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