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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Last Night's Fun: A Book About Traditional Irish Music" by Belfast author Ciaran Carson is the August 2025 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a ...

Reading the 101 short chapters of Ciaran Carson's book "Shamrock Tea", is like studying the pages of "Lives of the Saints" through a kaleidoscope. "I have said the universe can be rolled up like a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our event this week is presented by the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University, and features a reading and conversation with poet and novelist, Ciarán Carson.

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 ...

The visually rich and contemplative posthumous collection from Carson, who died in October, draws from memory and ekphrasis, bringing to life works by Cezanne, Poussin, and Caillebotte, among others.