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Tara Bergin Shortlisted for Pigott Poetry Prize

Wednesday, 12 Apr 2023

Tara Bergin We're thrilled to announce that Savage Tales by Tara Bergin has been shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023!

Judged by Clodagh Beresford Dunne and Martin Dyar, the prize is awarded in association with Listowel Writers' Week and seeks to recognise the best in Irish poetry. The judges called Savage Tales 'a thrilling experimental collection that is grounded in the playfulness and intelligence of a singular voice. A book of wry disclosures and specialised glances. But also a book defined by energetic focus and linguistic verve.'

The book was shortlisted alongside Palm Wine Tapper and the Boy at Jericho by Nithy Kasa and Company by Tom French. The overall prize winner will be announced on May 31st at Listowel Writer's Week.

Congratulations Tara!


Savage Tales Savage Tales by Tara Bergin continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comic sequences.

Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus of exchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between the making of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustained activity, an authority which is always here called into question. Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuity and panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.






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