A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org). Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson's writing is to be found in his radical imaginative engagements with ideas of space and place. The city of Belfast, in particular, occupies a crucially important place in his texts, serving as an imaginative focal point around which his many other concerns are constellated. The city, in all its volatile mutability, is an abiding frame of reference and a reservoir of creative impetus for Carson's imagination. Accordingly, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon geography, urbanism, and cultural theory as well as literary criticism. It provides both a stimulating and thorough introduction to Carson's work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.

A Study Guide for Ciaran Carson's "The War Correspondent," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

These essays chart the development of Ciaran Carson's career, scrutinizing his experiments in a new urban poetics, including his obsessive concern with maps and labyrinths. The essays examine his interest in narrative, and explore the continuities between his poetry and his prose, and they consider his relation to various poetic traditions.--From publisher description.

A journal of Irish studies.

Covers hundreds of writers who have made contributions to British, Irish and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background. Each Supplement covers approximately 20 additional authors.

While providing an innovative analysis of theoretical work in music and literary studies, this title examines how traditional Irish music, including the related song tradition, has influenced, and is apparent in, the work of Irish poets.

This collection of essays and images reveals hidden cities, in literature, history and art, that radically redefine our knowledge and understanding of what we think of as Belfast. It traces the city's development from its first foundation to the present. -- Publisher description.

This reference work combines bibliographical, biographical and critical information on 900 living poets writing in the English language. Entries are arranged alphabetically, and this edition includes 120 new entrants, including Wendy Cope, Benjamin Zephaniah and Rachel McAlpine.

Published in 1998, Sean O'Brien's essays in The Deregulated Muse cover key poets and movements in British and Irish poetry since the 1960s, relating their work to politics, culture and history.