This Is Yarrow

Overview

The poems in Dublin-born poet and translator Tara Bergin’s debut collection combine sensuous lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairy tale, and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another yet share nervous energy and a troubled state of mind. Bergin gathers language from a wide range of sources and places to create a music and vision entirely her own.

Reviews

“The voicing and line technique is bold, edgy, risking or withholding violent.”  —Adam Piette, professor, University of Sheffield

Author Biography

Tara Bergin is an Irish poet whose writing has appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, Poetry London, and Poetry Review magazines.