This is Yarrow

The poems in Dublin-born poet and translator Tara Bergin's debut collection combine sensuous lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairy tale, and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another yet share nervous energy and a troubled state of mind. Bergin gathers language from a wide range of sources and places to create a music and vision entirely her own.;Front Cover ; About the Author ; Copyright ; Epigraph ; Dedication ; Contents ; Looking at Lucy's Painting of the Thames at Low Tide Without Lucy Present; Acting School; Water is Difficult; All Fools' Day: An Academic Farewell; Questions; You Could Show a Horse; Himalayan Balsam for a Soldier; Dancing; Sonnets For Tracey ; i. Permission to Fire ; ii. Handbook; iii. X Prostitutism; iv. Tambour Café, Marienstr. 16; Composition for the Left Hand; Christmas Window, Armistice Day; Sonnet for Catherine Who Never Turned Up; Military School; White Crow. The poems in Tara Bergin's accomplished debut collection combine sensuous, supple lyricism with the unsettling familiarity of folklore, fairytale and dream. They are inhabited by characters who seem at first widely different from one another, yet share nervous energy, a troubled state of mind: 'I am unwell, little crow, / I am unwell and far from home / where longing lives in my house'. In This is Yarrow Bergin gathers language from a wide range of sources and places to create a music and vision entirely her own.