0002 Ciarán Carson - Belfast Confetti by PoetryJukebox Quotidian published on 2020-09-13T14:36:58Z Ciarán Carson was born in Belfast, where he held the Seamus Heaney Chair of Poetry at Queen’s University. His books of poems have earned praise and prizes all over the world, including the Irish Times Award for Poetry, the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize. For All We Know was a Poetry Book Society Choice (2008), the year his Collected Poems was published. Ciarán Carson was a member of Aosdána and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ‘Belfast Confetti’ from The Irish for No (1987) is used by kind permission of the Estate of Ciaran Carson c/o The Gallery Press. www.gallerypress.com Genre Contemporary Poetry
