Sara Berkeley
Like Louise Glück’s The House on the Marshland and Medbh McGuckian’s earlier work, these poems choose to ‘hunker down near the rim of the world’ for their images, where they lucidly criss-cross boundaries between the speaker’s emotions and the landscape without succumbing to pathetic fallacy or becoming tritely confessional . . .
— Selina Guinness, The Irish Times
. . . her rich poems and her sharp eye for details of the natural world — are given a resonant tension by the stretched ties to her native country.
— Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
Sara Berkeley 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, 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.
Sara Berkeley Titles
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Strawberry Thief
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The View From Here
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What Just Happened
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What Just Happened
What Just Happened includes poems set on the west coasts of Ireland and the United States. But ‘the rumble beneath her poetic language . . . is most often the noise made by the tectonic plates of personality as they shift beneath the surface terrain of relationships’ (Wes Davis).
Recent Gallery Press Titles
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Collected Poems
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The Limit of Light
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Washing Up
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Shallow Seas
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Plainchant
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The Talk of the Town
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The Kabul Olympics
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The Sea Field
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Double Negative
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Still Life
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The Mother House
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Pale Sister
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Selected Poems 1961-2017
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The Last Peacock
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Marine Cloud Brightening
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The Gravity Wave
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The Wedding Breakfast
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The Last Straw
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