Belfast Confetti
"Ciaran Carson'd latest book, 'Belfast Confetti', is one of the most exciting and innovative collections of Northern Irish poetry to be published in recent years.... Many of the poems are written in the fluent, ironic narrative style of the last book, with long, energetic lines charting the flow of the gutsy barroom banter of the various speakers. But the overall impression conveyed is of the poet's sure control of language, his active ear for the rhythms and diction of real speech, and his deft ability to juxtapose very different speech registers in the same stanza or line...." ---Jonathan Allison. Irish Literary Supplement.