80 pages 2006
Limited, signed, and numbered       first edition with 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

80 pages 2006    paperback
“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

64 pages 2003     paperback
WINNER of the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection

137 pages 2001
paperback

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

137 pages 2001
paperback

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

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.

96 pages 1998
clothbound

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.

96 pages 1998
paperback

April 2008 110 pages
Selected as the Spring 2008 Choice by the Poetry Book Society*

“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’.

Selected as the Spring 2008 Choice by the Poetry Book Society*

April 2008 110 pages

“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’." Irish Times