This is Yarrow by Tara Bergin
A brilliant debut collection by a Dublin-born poet and translator.
'The voicing and line technique is bold, edgy, risking or withholding violent' --Adam Piette, professor, University of Sheffield '[...] Bergin succeeds in creating a clear voice and a dramatic situation. This is Yarrow is primarily a book of monologues, establishing voices whose skewed attitudes invite an engaged critical response from the reader. The monologues are sometimes reminiscent of Paul Durcan and at other times Sylvia Plath and they can be very cutting and funny at the expense of their speakers [...]' -- John McAuliffe, Irish Times
Tara Bergin has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet Press, This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry), The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes) and Savage Tales (shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize and the Derek Walcott Prize and winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847772367 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847772366 |
| Title | This is Yarrow |
| Author | Tara Bergin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 61 |
| Prizes | Winner of dlr Strong/Shine Poetry Award 2014, Winner of Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry 2014, Short-listed for Irish Times Literary Prize,Irish Poetry 2014 |
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