Facts About Water
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 Books Awards and the Sunday Tribune Arts Awards. Facts About Water includes some of the work from Penn (1986) and Home Movie Nights (1989) as well as a whole collection of new poems.
Sara Berkeley's poetry evokes a personal world with- as Eavan Boland has said-"a great senson of expansion and eloquence" and with "a female sensuousness of language" (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 individiual lines, the unmistakeable signature of a true poetic voice. Again and again, there are lines that are pure aural pleasure.' Irish Literary Review
ISBN: 9781874597049; C PB; 100 pp; 1994
