Tara Bergin (born 1974) is an
Irish poet.
Career
Tara Bergin was born in 1974 and grew up in
Dublin
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. She moved to
England
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in 2002 and by 2012 she was awarded her PhD from
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a mem ...
with a thesis on
Ted Hughes
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He wa ...
’s translations of
János Pilinszky. Bergin now lives in
Yorkshire
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. She won the
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...
First Collection Prize in 2014 with her collection ''This is Yarrow''. In 2014 she was also named a Next Generation Poet by the
Poetry Book Society
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. Her second collection, ''The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx'', was shortlisted for the
T. S. Eliot Prize and the
Poetry Now Award.
Bergin is now part-time lecturing in Creative Writing (Poetry) in Newcastle University.
In 2019 she was a contributor to ''A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue Between East and West (''Gingko Library, 2019).
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References
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1974 births
Irish women poets
Writers from Dublin (city)
21st-century Irish poets
Living people
21st-century Irish women writers
Alumni of Newcastle University