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Irish author Carson to present at Writing Program Reading Series
By Liam Otten Irish author Ciaran Carson will read from his work at 8 p.m. today in the Ann W. Olin Women's Building for The Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public. Carson is a major figure in contemporary Irish literature and, according to poet Charles Simic, "one of the best poets we have on both sides of the Atlantic."
A flute player, Carson has written a book about traditional Irish music called Last Night's Fun (1998). Other works of prose include Fishing for Amber (2000), an abecedarian work combining personal memoir with myth and historical narrative; and the novel Shamrock Tea (2001). "Among the remarkable gathering of six to eight Irish poets who will live into the next centuries -- like the mid-19th century French poets or American Modernist poets -- Ciaran Carson may be the most selfless, the most eclectic and widely read, and the most wildly imaginative," says Dillon Johnston, director of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences. Carson's book First Language (1993) received the first-ever T.S. Eliot Prize (awarded for the best volume of poetry in the United Kingdom), and his Belfast Confetti (1989) was awarded the 1989 Irish Times Aer Lingus Irish Literature Prize. In 2000, he received the Butler Literary Award for Poetry granted by the Irish American Cultural Institute. Carson is a native of Belfast and learned Irish as his first language. A graduate of Queen's University, he served until recently as traditional arts officer for the Northern Irish Arts Council, working especially with traditional musicians. He lives in Belfast with his wife, the esteemed fiddler Deirdre Shannon, and their three children. For more information, call 935-7130. |
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