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Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has become one of Northern Ireland’s strongest poetic voices. His books include The New Estate (1976), The Irish for No [...]

Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining      exclamation marks, Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the      explosion Itself — an asterisk on the map. This [...]