A ‘forgotten’ Irish poet delivers poems of true poise
Poetry: What Just Happened
By Sara Berkeley Tolchin
Gallery Press, €11.95
I know only two Irish poets who emerged into public consciousness while in their late teens with their core poetic voice fully formed. The first was Michael Hartnett, whose early poems can still live alongside – and throw light on – his great later work.
The other poet, Sara Berkeley, was a Dublin schoolgirl in 1986 when her vivid poems attracted national attention, due to the ...