Belfast-born poet’s writing was vast in its contemplation of time and mortality
Ciaran Carson: As a poet, for he was also a musician, novelist and essayist, Carson’s forms are mercurial and exorbitant. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via GettyA complement and extension to Volume 1, The Collected Poems of Ciaran Carson Volume 2 gathers together four books of poems published by The Gallery Press since 2009.
Eleven years after his first book – a time during which he travelled the country playing traditional music – 1987′s The Irish For No was a breakthrough success. That book’s long, rangy lines were inspired variously by the tunes of traditional music; the shaggy-dog storytelling tradition; the 17 syllables of the haiku consolidated into a single line.
As a poet, for he was also a musician, novelist and essayist, Carson’s poetic forms are mercurial and exorbitant; each book’s subject or preoccupation demands another approach or reconfiguration of language. The Collected Poems Volume 2 picks up with On the Night Watch , comprised of a species of micro-sonnet. Its three movements give us fragile sequences of seven couplets, spare and haunted.
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