Belfast Confetti

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Bloodaxe, 1990 - Poetry - 108 pages
Ciaran Carson's second book, The Irish for No (Bloodaxe Books, 1988), marked the sudden and surprising re-emergence of one of Ulster's finest and most forceful poets. Belfast Confetti is its sequel: a larger scale mapping out of Carson's troubled city, a huge, spattered canvas thick with layers of past history, now cracked and torn apart by ravages of war and redevelopment.

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Turn Again
11
Plains and mountains skies
19
Gate
45
Copyright

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Ciaran Carson (1948-2019) was the author of nine books of poetry and four prose works, and the winner of several awards including the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection for Breaking News in 2003. His translation of Dante's Inferno won the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He held positions in the Traditional Music and Literature departments of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland between 1975 to 1998, and was the Founding Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast until his retirement in 2016.

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