Sara Berkeley
Poet, Writer
Sara's most recent poetry collection The Last Cold Day won the 2023 inaugural Yeats Poetry
Prize.
Latest Release
Some of the Things I've Seen
(2023)
In her newest collection, Sara Berkeley follows a number of sightlines: watching the landscape from the window of a plane, contemplating the effects of climate change, and witnessing human vulnerability and resilience in her work as a hospice nurse during the height of the pandemic.
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Throughout these poems, Berkeley maintains a tender awareness of the threats that surround us, especially for the children born into this increasingly uninhabitable world, as well as a keen appreciation of the passion and poetic insight we will all need to survive.
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"This is a book of almost apocalyptic journeys, alive with colour and movement across huge vistas"
Martina Evans,
The Irish Times
Praise & Reviews
"This collection is rendered with unwavering honesty as well as the understated humanity and grace that are hallmarks of her work."
Dermot Bolger,
The Sunday Business Post
"Berkeley's bravery is magnificient, her palliative courage simply astonishing."
Thomas McCarthy,
Dublin Review of Books
Upcoming Appearances
Sara Berkeley reads from her recent work.
Gabriel Zimpritch Symposium
Cape Elizabeth High School, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Thursday May1st 2025