“A MINEFIELD SALTED WITH EYEBRIGHT”: AN URBAN POET’S MUSINGS IN ON THE NIGHT WATCH AND UNTIL BEFORE AFTER BY CIARAN CARSON

Authors

  • Elisabeth Delattre University of Lille

Abstract

Abstract: This paper aims at showing how in On the Night Watch and Until Before After, two verse collections published respectively in 2009 and 2010, Ciaran Carson used new forms of exploring language and reached another depth while retaining most of the themes and preoccupations that pervaded his whole work.

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Author Biography

Elisabeth Delattre, University of Lille

Elizabeth Delattre holds a PhD on the work of the Anglo-Irish author, J. G. Farrell. She has published a number of articles on Farrell, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley and more particularly on Ciaran Carson in peer-reviewed works and journals such as Etudes Irlandaises or Estudioes Irlandeses. She teaches at University of Artois in Arras and is a research associate with the Centre for Irish Studies, the CECILLE centre at the University of Lille.