First Language

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

Reviews

“Ciaran Carson’s First Language is a spectacular collection . . . If you buy only one poetry book this year, make sure it’s this one.”
– Gerald Dawe, The Irish Times

“For all the postmodern . . . wordplay, Carson is never less than exquisitely sensitive to the raw dimension of the Belfast life to which even the chastest of styles is inadequate by way of response . . . Hats off readers, a triumph.”
– David Wheatley, Poetry Ireland Review