Acclaimed Irish poet Ciaran Carson will read from his work and be interviewed April 7 at Vanderbilt.
Carson, author of nine poetry collections including the 2003 Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collecion Breaking News, will appear 7 p.m. in Room 126 Wilson Hall.
The event is free and open to the public.
Carson, director of the Seanys Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University in Belfast, is also a novelist and translator. He has won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize and the T.S. Elliott prize, and written four books of prose including Last Night’s Fun, about traditional Irish music.
Following the reading, Carson will answer questions posed by Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America.
The reading is sponsored by the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Program at Vanderbilt.