2006   80 pages 
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Limited, signed, and numbered      
First edition with plain vellum wrapper

“Carson’s translation of 'The Midnight Court' is that rarest of things: a small and utterly enjoyable masterpiece. It brings to a wider audience than ever before a great and neglected piece of 18th century literature and, to an American readership, something equally important. In this country, poetry now is more frequently written than read, and the pleasures of the long poem are all but lost. By and large, our poets lack ambition and their meager audiences the patience. What Carson offers the willing in these 60 pages of poetry with a brief introduction is a rollicking evening of instruction in the pleasures of a long and entertaining poem.”  Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

2006   80 pages       
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“Carson’s translation of The Midnight Court is that rarest of things: a small and utterly enjoyable masterpiece. It brings to a wider audience than ever before a great and neglected piece of 18th century literature and, to an American readership, something equally important. In this country, poetry now is more frequently written than read, and the pleasures of the long poem are all but lost. By and large, our poets lack ambition and their meager audiences the patience. What Carson offers the willing in these 60 pages of poetry with a brief introduction is a rollicking evening of instruction in the pleasures of a long and entertaining poem.”  Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times

2003   64 pages
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Winner of the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection

"Ciaran Carson is the circus act of contemporary Irish letters — a double-jointed marvel who defies the narrow, classifying imagination." Ian Samson, The Guardian

2003   64 pages
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Winner of the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection

"... Carson displays a constant, playful inventiveness in discovering new ways in which the rhythms of spoken and written (journalistic) language can come to be perceived as poetry." Poetry Review

2001   137 pages
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"The selections from each of the seven books of poetry to date...allow a reader to see the progression and transformation of this enormously inventive poet across twenty-five years. ... this volume is a real opportunity for American readers to get a sense of the reach and imagination of this major Irish poet." - Kevin Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement

2001   137 pages
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"The selections from each of the seven books of poetry to date...allow a reader to see the progression and transformation of this enormously inventive poet across twenty-five years. ... this volume is a real opportunity for American readers to get a sense of the reach and imagination of this major Irish poet." - Kevin Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement

1998   96 pages
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The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, “the land of the green rose,” poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12th – all realms of or tickets to Utopia.

1998   96 pages
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The Twelfth of Never, which comprises seventy-seven sonnets written in alexandrines, floats on (or submerges in) the ideal republic or the Otherworld promised in fairy stories, aislings, the land of Cockaigne, lines of cocaine, drunkenness, “the land of the green rose,” poppy-day imperialism, Loyalist and Fenian ballads, and the rhetoric of July 12th – all realms of or tickets to Utopia.

April 2008   110 pages
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First edition with plain vellum wrapper

Selected as the Spring 2008 Choice by the Poetry Book Society

One of Only Five Poetry Books Selected by Publishers Weekly as "Best Books of the Year"

“For All We Know is rich with mystery, wise to the shadows events and possibilities cast on each other its writing coloured with ‘Lenten violet’ and the ‘Blue’ which ‘stands for eternity, its gaze plumbs infinity. To penetrate the blue is to go through the looking- glass’." Fiona Sampson, Irish Times

Selected as the Spring 2008 Choice by the Poetry Book Society

One of Only Five Poetry Books Selected by Publishers Weekly as "Best Books of the Year"

April 2008   110 pages       paperback    $12.95

Ciaran Carson's new volume of poems, For All We Know, is one he has been schooling himself to write all of his writing life. ... [It] is a tour de force. In it we see a poet who draws on the past without repeating, using the poetic tradition and his own earlier works as stepping stones toward a new form. This exciting new structure and the haunting story within it stand as the culmination of his work to date." Helen Emmitt, Irish Literary Supplement

"As with all of Carson's poetry, this collection is essential.  No one else is doing anything like it." Ross Moore, Culture Northern Ireland