On the Night Watch - Softcover

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Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 and raised in Belfast, where he still lives. Educated at The Queen's University, Belfast, he was appointed Chair of Poetry at its Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in 2003. Carson is a traditional musician, a scholar of the Irish oral traditional, a prose-writer, a translator, as well as a poet. His critically acclaimed volumes of poetry, published in North America by Wake Forest University Press, include The New Estate (1976), The Irish For No (1987), Bel-fast Confetti (1989), First Language (1994), Opera Et Cetera (1996), The Alexandrine Plan (1998), The Twelfth of Never (1998), Selected Poems (2001), Breaking News (2003), For all we Know (2008), and Collected Poems (2009).

Among his many prizes, Carson was awarded the first ever T.S. Eliot Prize for the outstanding book of poetry published in Great Britain (First Language), the prestigious Forward Prize for best collection of poetry (Breaking News), and the Butler Literary Award for Poetry by the Irish American Cultural Institute in 2000. His version of Dante's Inferno (2002) was awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Carson has also published The Midnight Court (2006), a rollicking translation of Brian Merriman's eighteenth century Irish poem, as well as the Ulster saga, The Tain (2008). Prose books include Last Night's Fun, about traditional Irish music; The Star Factory, a personal history of Belfast; the magical Fishing for Amber; the strange and hallucinogenic Shamrock Tea; and most recently, The Pen Friend.