Tara Bergin
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Tara Bergin (born 1974) is an Irish poet.
Career
Tara 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/three-irish-poets-dominate-forward-prize-shortlist-1.3116587|title=Three Irish poets dominate Forward Prize shortlist|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/irish-times-poetry-now-award-shortlist-revealed-1.3376524|title=Irish Times Poetry Now Award shortlist revealed|newspaper=The Irish Times}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/10/tara-bergin-s-poetry-perfect-guide-these-frightened-frightening-times|title=Tara Bergin's poetry is a perfect guide to these frightened, frightening times|newspaper=The New Statesman}} In 2014 she was also named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society.{{cite web|url=http://irishlitsoc.org/event/tara-bergin/|title=Tara Bergin in conversation and reading her poetry}} Her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/oct/20/why-the-ts-eliot-prize-shortlist-hails-a-return-to-the-status-quo |title= Why the TS Eliot prize shortlist hails a return to the status quo |first= Sandeep |last= Parmar |work= The Guardian |date= October 20, 2017 |access-date= December 21, 2023 |archive-date= December 21, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231221175630/https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/oct/20/why-the-ts-eliot-prize-shortlist-hails-a-return-to-the-status-quo |url-status=live}} and the Poetry Now Award.{{cite web |title=Leontia Flynn wins Irish Times Poetry Now Award |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/leontia-flynn-wins-irish-times-poetry-now-award-1.3438290?mode=amp |website=www.irishtimes.com |accessdate=4 September 2019}}
Bergin is now part-time lecturing in Creative Writing (Poetry) in Newcastle University.{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/tara-bergin|title=ABOUT TARA BERGIN}}{{cite web|url=http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poet/tara-bergin/|title=Tara Bergin}} In 2019 she was a contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (Gingko Library, 2019).
Books
- {{cite book|title=This is Yarrow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J5luBgAAQBAJ|date=25 July 2013|publisher=Carcanet|isbn=978-1-84777-287-9}}
- {{cite book|title=The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dQuDwAAQBAJ|date=7 August 2017|publisher=Carcanet|isbn=978-1-78410-381-1}}
Further reading
- {{cite journal|title=Looking for/Longing for/Sick for Home: Marina Tsvetaeva in English Translation|author1=Tara Bergin|author2=Marina Tsvetkova|author3=Christopher Whyte|journal=Translation and Literature|volume=23|issue=3|pages=336–363|issn= 0968-1361|doi=10.3366/tal.2014.0163|year=2014}}
- {{cite thesis|title=Ted Hughes and the literal: A study of the relationship between Ted Hughes's translations of János Pilinszky and his poetic intentions for Crow|author1=Bergin, Tara|type=PhD Thesis |publisher=Newcastle University|date=2013|hdl = 10443/2214}}
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Category:Writers from Dublin (city)
Category:21st-century Irish poets