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  • Gerard Carson

Biography

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Critical perspective

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Bibliography

From Elsewhere
In the Light of: After Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Until Before After
The Pen Friend
On the Night Watch
For All We Know
Collected Poems
The Tain
The Midnight Court/Brian Merriman
Breaking News
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
Shamrock Tea
The Twelfth of Never
Fishing for Amber
The Ballad of HMS Belfast: A Compendium of Belfast Poems
The Alexandrine Plan
The Star Factory
Last Night's Fun: About Time, Food and Music
Opera Et Cetera
Belfast Frescoes
Letters from the Alphabet
First Language: Poems
Belfast Confetti
The New Estate and Other Poems
The Irish for No
Irish Traditional Music
The Lost Explorer
The New Estate

Awards

2015
Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection (shortlist)
2008
Costa Poetry Prize (shortlist)
2008
T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist)
2003
Cholmondeley Award
2003
Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection
1997
Yorkshire Post Book Award (Book of the Year)
1993
T. S. Eliot Prize
1990
Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry
1987
Alice Hunt Bartlett Award
1978
Eric Gregory Award