PAUSE

Take a moment with some well-chosen words

Tara Bergin’s poems begin in unlikely places, such as a dentist’s waiting room or a queue in the bank. To finish them she needs to be “in a room with a door that can close.” Such rooms can be hard to find as A Rented Room Above The Registry Office beautifully shows. Things to ponder: Tara describes her poetry as being about “the clash between inner life and outer reality and how they seek to disrupt each other.” How does that happen in this poem? What’s the narrator of this poem’s feeling about love and romance? A Rented Room Above The Registry Office by Tara Bergin is from the collection The Tragic Death Of Eleanor Marx, reprinted by permission of Carcanet Press, UK.…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2024

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