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 Janos 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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'Bergin's is an original voice of great power that flicks between speech and song, and between the borrowed and the wholly owned, with consummate ease.' - W.N. Herbert (Chair of the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize Judging Panel)