Sara Berkeley
Posted on May 14, 2006 | Category: Writers
‘Sara Berkeley’s poems tend to define an atmosphere, a climate, in which various emotional and existential encounters and transformations are taking place obliquely and gradually…The most striking aspect of Berkeley’s talent is her poetic ear, which gives marvellous individiual lines, the unmistakeable signature of a true poetic voice. Again and again, there are lines that are pure aural pleasure.’ Irish Literary Review
‘A new kind of poetic language and consciousness, tactile and sensual.’ Irish Literary Supplement
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PENN
Cover art: Jon Berkeley
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genre :: Poetry
publisher :: Raven Arts Press
place & year :: Dublin, 1986
ISBN :: 1 85186 013 2
translations :: none
translation queries :: contact author
print-on-demand :: no
status :: out of print
Contact:: ILR
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HOME MOVIE NIGHTS
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genre :: Poetry
publisher :: Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press
place & year :: Dublin/Saskatchewan, 1989
ISBN :: 1 85186 050 9 (Raven); 1 920633 59 5 (Thistledown)
translations :: none
translation queries :: contact author
print-on-demand :: no
status :: out of print
Contact:: ILR
NB Facts About Water (Dublin, New Island Books, 1994) includes some of the work from Penn (1986) and Home Movie Nights (1989) as well as a selection of new poems.
Latest Publicaton
Strawberry Thief
Websites
Sara Berkeley at Gallery Press Authors
Sara Berkeley at Web de Sol
(*contains poems,including Facts About Water, and a picture of Sara – but biographical details and contact may be out of date)
Biographical Note
Sara Berkeley was born in Dublin in 1967 and graduated from Trinity College in 1989, after which she wandered somewhat aimlessly round the globe for a while pretending she had a plan. She finally settled in a rural valley just northwest of San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and young daughter.
Her poetry collections are Penn (Dublin, Raven Arts Press/Canada, Thistledown Press, 1986); Home Movie Nights (Raven Arts Press/Thistledown Press, 1989); Facts About Water, New and Selected Poems (Dublin, New Island Books/Canada, Thistledown Press/Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, Bloodaxe Books, 1994); and Strawberry Thief (Oldcastle, Co Meath, The Gallery Press, 2005).She has also published a volume of short stories, The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream (Raven Arts Press, 1991), and a novel, Shadowing Hannah (Dublin, New Island Books, 1999).
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