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June 2026

Tara Bergin

Tara Bergin was born and grew up in Dublin. Her first collection of poems, This is Yarrow (Carcanet), was awarded the 2014 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the 2014 Shine/Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish author. Her second collection The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (Carcanet 2017) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Her third book is Savage Tales, published by Carcanet in 2022. Tara now lives in the North of England and teaches part-time on the creative writing programme at Newcastle University.

More work by Tara Bergin

Tara Bergin [features] Ode to the Microphone [poetry] On The Making of Savage Tales [features]

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