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The Ballad of HMS Belfast, a compendium of Ciaran Carson's 'Belfast' poems, includes ample selections from books which have earned The Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, a Choice of the Poetry Book Society and the rapturous applause of readers and reviewers. Neil Corcoran, in the TLS, noting how the author's personal history is entangled with the political one, recorded 'how delightedly we may recognise the signs of a quite exceptional talent, having discovered its proper expression, trying to keep up with itself...(Carson's) dramatization of the hesitations of a narrating voice play the oral against the literary...' 'There is a single large effort under way here, one that may well turn out to be among the most enduring artistic products of Northern Ireland since 1968.' |
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Ballad of HMS Belfast attests to the view that no writer since Joyce has
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