We are delighted to announce that Savage Tales by Tara Bergin has been shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize!

The prize is held by Arrowsmith Press, in partnership with The Derek Walcott Festival in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and the Boston Playwright's Theatre. It is awarded to a full-length book of poems by a living poet who is not a US citizen.

The winner will be announced at the Arrowsmith fall book launch on 2nd November 2023 - you can find the full shortlist here.

Congratulations Tara!

Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales 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.