The above quote was spoken to me by celebrated Northern Irish poet, Ciaran Carson, after his poetry reading (Friday, 24th February) at my beloved school, the University of Limerick (UL). Carson’s ...

The news of the death of the poet Ciaran Carson seems all the more sorrowful because it was not unexpected. After a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer, last spring, he knew that he was dying, and, thus ...

new novel, "time and space can be folded up, and things which appear to us to be centuries or miles apart are, in reality, but a parchment thickness away. If we were bookworms, we could eat into those ...

CIARAN CARSON is one of the most accomplished among the astonishing number of formidable poets who have issued from Ulster over the last three generations. In his elegy on the death of Yeats, Auden ...

More than 30 years after his first book was published in the United States, Ciaran Carson remains little known to American readers. Born in Belfast in 1948 into a Catholic family—his great-grandfather ...

A contemporary of Paul Muldoon, Carson is one of the most well-known poets of his generation in the U.K. He is too little known here, though this ambitious new book may change that. Borrowing its ...

Ciaran Carson’s “Collected Poems” was published last month by Wake Forest University Press. It is Carson’s eleventh book of poetry. He has also written five books of prose, and contributed six poems ...

"Poetry is itself translation,” Belfast poet and translator Ciaran Carson writes, and the essays in The Brimming World keep worrying away at that thought. He writes in English with Irish ­always ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Belfast poet Ciaran Carson. The 70-year-old, from the Lower Falls Road, died on Sunday. The TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize recipient published ...

Line Of Duty star Adrian Dunbar has given a rare poetry and art book to the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. Happenstance was created by the painter Brian Ballard and poet and ...

This significant, accessible edition allows readers of Carson, who died this October, to witness the poet’s stylistic transformation across volumes—from long lines to more compressed ones, regular ...

In his poetry, as well as in his prose, he conveyed the complexities of his city and his country. By Neil Genzlinger Ciaran Carson, whose poetry and prose captured the pungency, tensions and rich ...