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Title
The tragic death of Eleanor Marx
The tragic death of Eleanor Marx
Author
Tara Bergin
Tara Bergin
format
Paperback / softback
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Carcanet Press
Carcanet Press
Language
English
English
UK Publication Date
20170727
20170727
Description
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
Shortlisted for the Gladstone's Library 2019 Writers in Residence
Features the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year 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 Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in 'Mask', are both 'themselves and strangers'. 'That's all they wanted.'
A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017
Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award
Shortlisted for the Gladstone's Library 2019 Writers in Residence
Features the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year 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 Flaubert's Madame Bovary) imitated Flaubert's heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin's poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in 'Mask', are both 'themselves and strangers'. 'That's all they wanted.'
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