1998   96 pages 
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In English and French; translations from Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé

“ [A] reader with even a smattering of French might appreciate how thoroughly Carson both translates – that is, carries across – and then transplants in an altogether different soil and climate the richness of those originals.” Thomas O’Grady, Boston Review

1996   96 pages
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"In Irish traditional music, very much a part of Carson's life, the same tune should never be played the same way twice. [T]his use of performance and variation reflects on how people might exist only in the telling, in language, and how all experience might be a matter of language shuffling its cards. There is great joy in the resources of language, and great wit and humor." Mark Roper, Irish Literary Supplement

1996    96 pages
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"In Irish traditional music, very much a part of Carson's life, the same tune should never be played the same way twice. [T]his use of performance and variation reflects on how people might exist only in the telling, in language, and how all experience might be a matter of language shuffling its cards. There is great joy in the resources of language, and great wit and humor." Mark Roper, Irish Literary Supplement

1994   80 pages
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Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Britain and Ireland in the previous year.

"Ciaran Carson's First Language is a spectacular collection…If you buy only one poetry book…this year, make sure it's this one." Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times

1994    80 pages
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Winner of the first T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Britain and Ireland in the previous year.

"Ciaran Carson's First Language is a spectacular collection…If you buy only one poetry book…this year, make sure it's this one." Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times

1989   110 pages 
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"One of the most gifted imaginations in contemporary poetry." Douglas Dunn, Irish Literary Supplement

2007   206 pages
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First edition with plain vellum wrapper

Winner of the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award
In choosing Secular Eden as the winner, the judges described the book as "the achievement of several years' work ... with great profundity to the poems in how they explored ideas ... and a real sense of vocation in the collection."

"In poetry, Harry Clifton's Secular Eden makes it clear he is one of the best Irish poets working now."
 Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times

2007   206 pages
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First edition

Winner of the 2008 Irish Times Poetry Now Award

In choosing Secular Eden as the winner, the judges described the book as "the achievement of several years' work ... with great profundity to the poems in how they explored ideas ... and a real sense of vocation in the collection."

"In poetry, Harry Clifton's Secular Eden makes it clear he is one of the best Irish poets working now."
 Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times

1990   365 pages
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"We are only starting to understand the lost generation of Irish poetry, and this splendid volume is a great help" - John Montague, The Irish Times

1993   79 pages
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"I have the greatest liking for Peter Fallon's poetry. It does not filter the world of the small farm for some urban reader; rather it takes him there. It does so without sentimentality, giving us for instance the brute weariness of farm work (Pastorale) as well as the triumph of work well done (The Old Masters). On the whole, Fallon's words move artfully within the lexicon of the rural town; their poetry is in the rightness of naming and describing, the exact ear for the beat and savor of country speech, the honest tuning of the poet's feeling toward his chosen place." Richard Wilbur