Saturday 4 February, 2012

Verbal Magazine

Review


What better time to publish this first, book-length critical appraisal of Ciaran Carson's oveuvre than in his 60th birthday year...

  • Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays
  • Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
  • Four Courts Press

Carson Up Close


What better time to publish this first, book-length critical appraisal of Ciaran Carson’s oveuvre than in his 60th birthday year.

The opening correspondence between the editor and Carson set his work into the historical backdrop of a whole life spent in Belfast. The 13 contributors give engrossing insights into Carson’s work; particularly a writer whose output in poetry and prose has enjoyed ‘quite a remarkable resurgence of energy and productivity’ in this last decade. Ciaran Carson: Critical Essays will more than satisfy both the student researching Carson’s work, and the writer interested in pursuing techniques behind his lyrical pyrotechnics.

Verbal Arts Centre

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