The Millstream Writers Series at the University of Limerick are delighted to announce that the renowned poet Ciaran Carson will read from his published work.

Organised by Campus Life Services together with the Department of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick the Millstream Writers Series is a free event and all are welcome to attend.

Ciaran Carson was born in 1948 in Belfast, where he lives. He worked in the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998, with responsibility for Traditional Music, and, more latterly, Literature. In October 2003 he was appointed Professor of Poetry and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University, Belfast.

Carson is the author of eleven collections of poems, including The Irish for No, Belfast Confetti, The Twelfth of Never, First Language, Opera Et Cetera, Breaking News, For All We Know (Poetry Book Society Choice; shortlisted for 2008 T S Eliot prize), Collected Poems (2008), On the Night Watch (2009) and Until Before After (2010).

His translations include The Alexandrine Plan, The Midnight Court, The Inferno of Dante Aligheri and The Táin. Prose includes Last Night’s Fun, The Star Factory, Fishing for Amber, Shamrock Tea and The Pen Friend.

In recent years he has written four prose books: Last Night's Fun, a book about traditional music; The Star Factory, a memoir of Belfast; Fishing for Amber: A Long Story; and Shamrock Tea, a novel, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

Carson has won several literary awards, including the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. His translation of Dante's Inferno (2002) was awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and in 2003 he was made an honorary member of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association. Breaking News was awarded the 2003 Forward Prize.

The Millstream Writers Series in the Millstream Common Room, University of Limerick will commence with a wine reception at 6.30pm and the reading by Ciaran Carson will commence at 7pm. Parking will be available in the car park adjacent to University Concert Hall.

Admission: FREE

Phone: +353 61 204333

Email: Linda.stevens@ul.ie