Participants: Ciaran Carson

(Photo: Manus Carson / Gallery Press)

Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Irish for No (1987), Belfast Confetti (1990), First Language (1993), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize, The Twelfth of Never (1999), Breaking News (2003), which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection, For All We Know (2008), On the Night Watch (2009) and Until Before After (2010), and also a number of prose books, including Last Night's Fun (1996), a book about traditional music, The Star Factory (1997), a memoir of Belfast, and Shamrock Tea (2001), a novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His translation of Dante's Inferno (2002) was awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and in 2003 he was made an honorary member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. His Collected Poems were published by Gallery Press in 2008. He is currently the Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast.

Listen to Ciaran Carson read at the Poetry Archive: www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive...poetId=29

StAnza 2011 Events:

Sun 20 March | The StAnza Masterclass
Led by Ciaran Carson
The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room

Sun 20 March | Round Table
Reading: Ciaran Carson
St Mary's Hall, St Mary’s Quad, South Street

Sun 20 March | Poetry Centre Stage
Reading: Douglas Dunn, Ciaran Carson
The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium


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	Festival 2011 Information Events Participants Afterword Photo Gallery Virtual Festival Cyber Slam 2010 Archives Past Programmes Past Participants Past Virtual StAnza 2012 StAnza 2011 StAnza 2010 StAnza 2009 StAnza 2008 StAnza 2007 StAnza 2006 StAnza 2005	Participants: Ciaran Carson (Photo: Manus Carson / Gallery Press) Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast. He is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including The Irish for No (1987), Belfast Confetti (1990), First Language (1993), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize, The Twelfth of Never (1999), Breaking News (2003), which was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection, For All We Know (2008), On the Night Watch (2009) and Until Before After (2010), and also a number of prose books, including Last Night's Fun (1996), a book about traditional music, The Star Factory (1997), a memoir of Belfast, and Shamrock Tea (2001), a novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His translation of Dante's Inferno (2002) was awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and in 2003 he was made an honorary member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. His Collected Poems were published by Gallery Press in 2008. He is currently the Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. Listen to Ciaran Carson read at the Poetry Archive: www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive...poetId=29 StAnza 2011 Events: Sun 20 March \| The StAnza Masterclass Led by Ciaran Carson The Town Hall, Queens Gardens – Supper Room Sun 20 March \| Round Table Reading: Ciaran Carson St Mary's Hall, St Mary’s Quad, South Street Sun 20 March \| Poetry Centre Stage Reading: Douglas Dunn, Ciaran Carson The Byre Theatre, Abbey Street – Auditorium Back to top