Star Factory

Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast and has spent his life there. In this memoir, he makes himself the cartographer of his home city's spaces, symbolic and literal, the scribe of its byways and avenues.

About the author

Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast. He was Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast. He published numerous collections of poetry that have been shortlisted for both the Irish Book Award for Literature and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry. He is the author The Star Factory, a memoir of Belfast, Fishing for Amber, and Shamrock Tea, which was long-listed for the Man Booker prize. Carson's new translation of Dante's Inferno was published to great acclaim. He passed away in Belfast in October 2019.

Summary

Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast and has spent his life there. In this memoir, he makes himself the cartographer of his home city's spaces, symbolic and literal, the scribe of its byways and avenues.

Foreword

The Star Factory is an elegy of magical power and enduring love, a work of passion and precision, and sure to be considered one of the finest books about Ireland ever written.

Additional text

There are lots of writers hidden inside in that particular book, you see, waiting for the right readers to become them' Belfast Telegraph.

Product details

• Authors: Ciaran Carson
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781838933654
• ISBN: 978-1-83893-365-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Belfast, Fiction, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Northern Ireland, Autobiography: literary, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Autobiography: writers