Tara Bergin

Tara Bergin was born in 1974 and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 and currently lives in North Yorkshire. In 2012 she completed her PhD research at Newcastle University on Ted Hughes’s translations of János Pilinszky. Her first collection, This is Yarrow (Carcanet Press) was awarded the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry in 2014, when she was also chosen as one of the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets 2014. Her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx (Carcanet Press) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize 2017. Since then, she has published Savage Tales (Carcanet Press), which was the winner of the Michael Hartnett Award 2024 and shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023 and the Derek Walcott Prize 2023. She is a lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Newcastle.