Belfast Confetti Ciaran Carson

Name: Belfast Confetti By Ciaran Carson
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Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson

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Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson

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.

Belfast Confetti Reviews

The poems are virtuoso feats of controlled association. A patchwork of local and historical references, names, in-jokes, literary allusions and family legends provides, not the background to a narrative but the story itself: the sense of people and communities under stress, of meanings, values and loyalites turned slippery... These are, as much for their exactness and compsure as for their undertow of loss and fright, indispensable poems. -- Alan Jenkins * Observer *

About Ciaran Carson

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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Sku

GOR001917065

ISBN 13

9781852241407

ISBN 10

1852241403

Title

Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson

Author

Ciaran Carson

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Year published

1990-05-24

Number of pages

112

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