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by Ciaran Carson
 WINNER of the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection
In many of these poems, Carson brings an alert, sensual awareness of events as if they were happening now. He radically revises paintings, other poems, and bulletins of a war correspondent "to accommodate rhyme and rhythm," as he says in his notes, or to post, as Pound says of poetry, the "news that stays news."
"Ciaran Carson is the circus act of contemporary Irish letters — a double-jointed marvel who defies the narrow, classifying imagination." Ian Samson, The Guardian
Belfast
east
beyond the yellow
shipyard cranes
a blackbird whistles
in a whin bush
west
beside the motorway
a black taxi
rusts in a field
of blue thistles
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ISBN: 1-930630-11-5 clothbound
ISBN13 978-1-930630-11-6
$10.95 paperback
ISBN 1-930630-10-7
ISBN13 978-1-930630-10-9
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