{"product_id":"the-tragic-death-of-eleanor-marx","title":"Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Gladstone’s Library 2019 Writers in Residence\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFeatures the poem 'Bride and Moth', shortlisted for the 2017 Listowel Writers' Week Irish Poem of the Year Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing her 2013 debut\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is Yarrow\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Shine \/ Strong Award), Tara Bergin returns with her second collection, \u003cem\u003eThe Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx\u003c\/em\u003e. The poems draw on folksong, fairytale and theatrical monologue as Bergin explores the alluring and sometimes tragic consequences of translation. When she committed suicide in 1898, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, pioneering sociologist, and translator of Flaubert’s \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e) imitated Flaubert’s heroine, Emma. Both women, in their own ways, died passionate deaths, and Bergin’s poems are concerned with intense love, intense grief. With a sing-song rhythm and dark humour, they play off the natural theatricality of great lovers, great writers and great readers who, like the fancy-dressed children in ‘Mask’, are both ‘themselves and strangers’. ‘That’s all they wanted.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32082107498579,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781784103804_566912b0-9d56-47cb-80dd-1c607fa5e706.jpg?v=1780396215","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-tragic-death-of-eleanor-marx","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}