2001   137 pages
paperback

"The selections from each of the seven books of poetry to date...allow a reader to see the progression and transformation of this enormously inventive poet across twenty-five years. ... this volume is a real opportunity for American readers to get a sense of the reach and imagination of this major Irish poet." - Kevin Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement

1998   96 pages
clothbound

The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, “the land of the green rose,” poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12th – all realms of or tickets to Utopia.

1998   96 pages
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The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, “the land of the green rose,” poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12th – all realms of or tickets to Utopia.

1998   96 pages 
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In English and French; translations from Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé

“ [A] reader with even a smattering of French might appreciate how thoroughly Carson both translates – that is, carries across – and then transplants in an altogether different soil and climate the richness of those originals.” Thomas O’Grady, Boston Review

1996   96 pages
clothbound

"In Irish traditional music, very much a part of Carson's life, the same tune should never be played the same way twice. [T]his use of performance and variation reflects on how people might exist only in the telling, in language, and how all experience might be a matter of language shuffling its cards. There is great joy in the resources of language, and great wit and humor." Mark Roper, Irish Literary Supplement

1996    96 pages
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"In Irish traditional music, very much a part of Carson's life, the same tune should never be played the same way twice. [T]his use of performance and variation reflects on how people might exist only in the telling, in language, and how all experience might be a matter of language shuffling its cards. There is great joy in the resources of language, and great wit and humor." Mark Roper, Irish Literary Supplement

1994   80 pages
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Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Britain and Ireland in the previous year.

"Ciaran Carson's First Language is a spectacular collection…If you buy only one poetry book…this year, make sure it's this one." Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times

paperback     80 pages 
1994
Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Britain and Ireland in the previous year.

"Ciaran Carson's First Language is a spectacular collection…If you buy only one poetry book…this year, make sure it's this one." Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times

This broadside is first in a series of four, designed to celebrate and commemorate the publication of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry in 2011. In order to allow a broad audience to enjoy these signed broadsides, they are laser printed on quality linen paper.
Signed by the poet. AVAILABLE OCTOBER 24, 2011. You may pre-order.
8-1/2" x 14"                Book club members, please take no discount. Thank you!

October 31, 2012

$12.95    ISBN 978-1-930630-61-1   Paperback