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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It might interest the men of Ulster to know that in antiquity Macha, the mythical wife of the equally mythical Crunniuc mac Agnomain, cursed them. A legendary athlete, Macha was forced to compete in a ...