Workshops
WORKSHOPS COMING SOON!
‘Reading Emily Dickinson’ (with Michael Schmidt) - for The Poetry Business 11 JUNE 2025 BOOK HERE
‘The Personal and Political’ - for Cath Drake’s Verandah
28 JULY 2025 BOOK HERE
‘Haunt your poems into being’ (with Richard Scott) - Arvon Residential Course 11 - 15 August BOOK HERE
Tara delivers a limited number of talks and poetry workshops at venues including art galleries, summer schools, universities and on-line.
‘Sometimes students worry about being ‘original’ because this is a word often used to denote ‘good’. But the originality comes in the treatment of your subject matter – the voice that tells it – not necessarily in the subject matter itself. What’s original is the voice you use to express these things. That’s what you're looking for as a writer: the voice that will reach inside your head, strike a match and start a fire...’
Topics include
‘FACT. IDEA. EMOTION’
‘CREATIVE TRANSLATION’
‘THE VOICE OF THE POEM’
‘GOOD PLACE: BAD PLACE’
‘THE JOKE’
‘THE ALTERNATIVE CRITICISM WORKSHOP’
To be able to seize the whole of one’s ability like a little ball. – Kafka
For availability please email tarabergincontact@gmail.com