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The Irish for No
by Ciaran Carson
Winner of the 1987 British Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for the best second book of poetry.
"An excitingly original poet.…The Irish for No is quite simply the most remarkable collection of poems by an Irish poet in a year [1987] which gave us important new collections by such as Heaney, Muldoon, and Kinsella." Terence Brown, Poetry Ireland
"The best book to come out of the North in recent years is Ciaran Carson's The Irish for No.…Ciaran is a musician and he has learned from traditional music how to introduce the wandering note. Like the slow air, you think it's lost, but it comes back again." John Montague, Irish America
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They had questioned him for hours. Who exactly was he?
And when
He told them, they questioned him again. When they accepted
who he was, as
Someone not involved, they pulled out his fingernails. Then
They took him to a waste-ground somewhere near the
Horseshoe Bend, and told him
What he was. They shot him nine times.
A dark umbilicus of smoke was rising from a heap of burning
tyres.
The bad smell he smelt was the smell of himself. Broken glass
and knotted Durex.
The knuckles of a face in a nylon stocking. I used to see him in
The Gladstone Bar,
Drawing pints for strangers, his almost perfect fingers flecked
with scum.
$50.00 paperback, First American edition. Rare and Collectible.
ISBN: 0-916390-29-2
ISBN13: 978-0-916390-29-7
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