Carson, Ciaran
Carson, Ciaran ( 1948 – ),Irish poet, educated at Queen's University, Belfast. After his first volume, The New Estate ( 1976 ) Carson's mature work uses complex, digressive narratives, influenced by his Irish-speaking background, to explore history, memory, and the layered maps of Belfast life from the 17th cent. to the post- 1969 Troubles (The Irish for No, 1987 ; Belfast Confetti, 1989 ). His long lines and complex sentences have now taken on rhyme and include versions of Baudelaire and of Rimbaud 's ‘Le Bateau ivre’. Richly physical and sensuous, Carson's poems reinvigorate aspects of the Symbolist imagination. See First Language ( 1993 ) Opera et Cetera ( 1996 ), and Breaking News ( 2003 ).
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