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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ciaran Caron’s X+Y=K has arrived seven years after his death in 2019. This bravura work is helpfully subtitled ‘A Novel’, though this clarification doesn’t indicate the wondrous hybridity of the book, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

On April 8, 2013, continuing our “Irish Voices” series, we welcomed the Irish poet and novelist Ciarán Carson to Boston. Carson, who plays the tin whistle, was accompanied by his wife Deirdre Shannon, ...

Athens, Ga. – The welcome reception to the 2013 Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project at the University of Georgia will feature a reading by poet and novelist Ciaran Carson of Belfast, Ireland. The ...