Ciarán Carson was a poet and author from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Queen’s University in Belfast. Carson was the author of many collections of poetry, including The Irish for No (1987), First Language: Poems (1994), For All We Know (2008), and Until Before After (2010).
Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for First Language: Poems (1994), and held the position of traditional arts officer of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998. He was appointed director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University in 2003.
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