Savage Tales
Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023
Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023
Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Talescontinues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song anddialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comicsequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus ofexchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between themaking of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustainedactivity, an authority which is always here called into question.Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuityand panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023
Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023
Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Talescontinues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song anddialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comicsequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus ofexchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between themaking of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustainedactivity, an authority which is always here called into question.Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuityand panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.