Tara Bergin was born in Dublin in 1974.
She has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet Press: This Is Yarrow, winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry; The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx, shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes; and most recently Savage Tales, one of the Irish Times ‘best new poetry books’ of the year and winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024.
Tara now teaches part-time in the creative writing programme at Newcastle University. At Newcastle Tara set up The Alternative Criticism Workshop for students interested in exploring new ways of critical writing.
As a freelancer Tara works with writing groups all over England and Ireland, including online and in-person courses for The Poetry Business, Poetry Ireland and The Arvon Writing Centre.
In a joint venture in 2020 she co-founded THE DISPOSABLE MUSEUM COLLECTIVE, a changing group of poets, musicians, animators, film makers, performers and visual artists who come together to create visual-verbal works and short audio pieces that respond to political, poetical, and environmental preoccupations through collaborative composition.
