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passionate and powerful voice

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the excitement that happens when a voice so fully itself meets subject matter of the greatest importance

born in the 1960s

Savage Tales by Tara Bergin Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2017 The collection opens with aTara Bergins 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. Bergins 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.