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First Language

First Language Paperback - 1994

by Carson, Ciaran

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Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1994. First American edition. Paperback. Fine. 77 pp. 8vo, sewn in wrappers. Review copy with a letter from the publisher laid in, addressed to Mitchell Levitas at the New York Times Book Review. Winner of the T. S. Eliot prize.

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  • Title First Language
  • Author Carson, Ciaran
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First American edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 77
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC
  • Publication date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 003031
  • ISBN 9780916390600 / 0916390608
  • Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 5.8 x 0.29 in (22.20 x 14.73 x 0.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
    • Ethnic Orientation: Irish
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94060031
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Ciaran Carson won the first-ever T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize for First Language

About the author

Born in 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ciaran Carson studied at Queen's University, Belfast, where, from 2003-2015, he served as the director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. Though recently retired from that post, he continues to teach a postgraduate poetry workshop there, in addition to overseeing the Belfast Writers' Group. Earlier in his career (from 1975-1998), Ciaran Carson acted as an arts officer for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. He is also a member of Aosdna and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. A writer of both poetry and prose--fiction and non-fiction alike--Ciaran Carson has also translated many texts, including The Midnight Court, a work of the eighteenth-century poet Brian Merriman, and a version of Dante's The Inferno, which won the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. His other awards include the first-ever T. S. Eliot Prize (1994, for First Language), and the Forward Prize for Best Collection (2003, for Breaking News). As well as being a significant poet and careful translator, Carson is also a scholar of traditional Irish music; he frequently plays the flute alongside his wife, the accomplished Irish fiddler Deirdre Shannon. He has said: "I'm not interested in ideologies . . . I'm interested in the words, and how they sound to me, how words connect with experience, of fear, of anxiety . . . Your only responsibility is to the language."

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