Under (Re)Construction – Belfast in the Poetry and Prose of Ciaran Carson

• Authors: Péter Dolmányos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Ciaran Carson’s poetry is deeply concerned with the city of Belfast, as many of the poems unfold their twisting itinerary against the active background of this northern urban location. In addition to the poems Carson has published a fair number of prose pieces and a tentative autobiography, which also resurrects the city in its dynamism, though on a different timescale. The poems and the prose pieces together constitute a narrative of the changing city with the conclusion that the most apparent element of permanence in the context of the city is change itself, which leads to a strained relationship between the city and the map representing it.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ars Aeterna
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 26-32

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2014-07-10

Contributors

author

Péter Dolmányos

• H3300 Eger Egészségház u.4. Hungary

References

• Carson, C. 1976. The New Estate. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
• Carson, C. 1987. The Irish for No. Loughcrew: Gallery Press.
• Carson, C. 1989. Belfast Confetti. Loughcrew: Gallery Press.
• Carson, C. 1997. The Star Factory. London: Granta Books.
• Lynch, K. 1960. The Image of the City. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press.
• McCracken, K. 1995. Ciaran Carson: Unravelling the Conditional, Mapping the Provisional. In: Andrews, E. (ed.). 1995. Poetry in Contemporary Irish Literature. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe Limited, pp. 365-372.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/aa-2014-0004