Savage Tales by Tara Bergin Charles Boyle standing for a lost paradise

standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend

labouring bodies speaking back to the demands of work and the fictions of xenophobic politicians

ruralist and experimentalist

in the destruction of 6 million

Savage Tales by Tara Bergin Charles Boyle standing for a lost paradiseTara 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.