Dec 22, 2009

The War Correspondent | Critical Overview

Breaking News, the collection in which “The War Correspondent” appears, received high praise from critics. Sean O’Brien in the Times Literary Supplement, comments that the collection, which ends with the seven poems that make up “The War Correspondent,” “concludes with the teeming plenitude of atmospheric and material detail which has marked Ciaran Carson’s work since his poetry came fully to life in the 1980s.” O’Brien goes on to describe “The War Correspondent” as “a rich and remarkable piece of work. . . . the poems never read as antiquarian works...