Tara Bergin Explained

Tara Bergin
Birth Name:	Tara Bergin
Birth Date:	1974
Nationality:	Irish
Alma Mater:	Newcastle University

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.^{[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

• Book: This is Yarrow. 25 July 2013. Carcanet. 978-1-84777-287-9.
• Book: The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. 7 August 2017. Carcanet. 978-1-78410-381-1.

Further reading

• Looking for/Longing for/Sick for Home: Marina Tsvetaeva in English Translation. Tara Bergin. Marina Tsvetkova. Christopher Whyte. Translation and Literature. 23. 3. 336–363. 0968-1361. 10.3366/tal.2014.0163. 2014.
• Ted Hughes and the literal: A study of the relationship between Ted Hughes's translations of János Pilinszky and his poetic intentions for Crow. Bergin, Tara. PhD Thesis . Newcastle University. 2013. 10443/2214.

Notes and References

1. News: Three Irish poets dominate Forward Prize shortlist. The Irish Times.
2. News: Irish Times Poetry Now Award shortlist revealed. The Irish Times.
3. News: Tara Bergin's poetry is a perfect guide to these frightened, frightening times. The New Statesman.
4. Web site: Tara Bergin in conversation and reading her poetry.
5. Web site: Why the TS Eliot prize shortlist hails a return to the status quo . Sandeep . Parmar . . October 20, 2017 . December 21, 2023 . December 21, 2023 . 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 . live.
6. Web site: Leontia Flynn wins Irish Times Poetry Now Award . www.irishtimes.com . 4 September 2019.
7. Web site: ABOUT TARA BERGIN.
8. Web site: Tara Bergin.