Belfast ConfettiCiaran 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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