num_pages: 96
description: Sara Berkeley is one of Ireland's most acclaimed young poets. Her first collection was published when she was just 19 and was shortlisted for both the Irish Book Awards and the Sunday Tribune Arts Awards. Facts About Water contains some of her best work from Penn (1986) and Home Movie Nights (1989) as well as a whole collection of new poems. Berkeley's poetry evokes a personal world with "a great sense of expansion and eloquence" (Eavan Boland, Sunday Press). The elements of fire and water run through her poems, tensed with a precocious knowledge of violence, sorrow and death, but buoyed by energy and joyfulness."Sara Berkeley is someone whose future work should be worth seeking out. She is already her own woman." - Robert Nye, The Times"A new kind of poetic language and consciousness, tactile and sensual." - Irish Literary Supplement"Sara Berkeley's poems tend to define an atmosphere, a climate in which various emotional and existential encounters and transformations are taking place obliquely and gradually . . . The most striking aspect of Berkeley's talent is her poetic ear, which gives marvellous individual lines, the unmistakeable signature of a true poetic voice. Again and again, there are lines that are pure aural pleasure." - Irish Literary Review
language: English
title: Facts About Water
titlecomplete: Facts About Water
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Thistledown Pr Ltd