Facts About Water: New and Selected Poems - Softcover

Berkeley, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852242922 ISBN 13: 9781852242923

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

Sara Berkeley is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young poets. Her first collection was published when she was just 19, and was shortlisted for both the Irish Book Awards and the Sunday Tribune Arts Awards. Her Bloodaxe selection Facts About Water includes some of the best work from Penn (1986) and Home Movie Nights (1989) as well as a whole collection of new poems. Her poetry evokes a personal world with – as Eavan Boland has said – ‘a great sense of expansion and eloquence’ and with ‘a female sensuousness of language’ (Sunday Press). The elements of fire and water run through her poems, tensed with a precocious knowledge of violence, sorrow and death, but buoyed by energy and joyfulness. Facts About Water was co-published with New Island Books in Ireland and Thistledown Press in Canada.

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About the Author

Sara Berkeley (Tolchin) was born in Dublin in 1967 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of California, Berkeley. Raven Arts Press published her first collection, Penn, in 1986. Since then she has published Home Movie Nights (poems, 1989), The Swimmer in the Deep Blue Dream (stories, 1992), Facts about Water: New and Selected poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1994) and Shadowing Hannah (a novel, 1999). The Gallery Press has published her recent poetry collections, Strawberry Thief (2005), The View from Here (2010) and What Just Happened (2015). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1852242922
• ISBN 13: 9781852242923
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96