All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

Bergin's perceptions are sharp, her senses of history, community, and relationships deep and acute, and her technical control over language and form is assured and graceful - Tower Poetry

A poet of rare lyric intensity - Oxford Companion to English Literature

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet

And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'