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The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
Tara Bergin
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Description for The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
paperback. Poems exploring the powerful, alluring and tragic consequences of translation in its many guises. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Very good clean copy, like new
Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of ... Read more
Shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017. Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Following her 2013 debut This is Yarrow (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine / Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Condition
Used, Like New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784103804
SKU
KSG0030417
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Tara Bergin
Tara bergin was born and grew up in Dublin. She moved to England in 2002 and currently lives in Yorkshire. In 2012 she completed her PhD research at Newcastle University on Ted Hughes's translations of Janos Pilinszky. She won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2014 for This Is Yarrow, published by Carcanet in 2013.
Reviews for The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
'Bergin succeeds in creating a clear voice and a dramatic situation.' - Irish Times