The Twelfth of Never. Lush, resonant, full of a verbal dexterity that tapped into the textures of Elizabethan and Napoleonic history and fused them with the flamboyant characters and narratives of Irish folksong, the book exuded noise, colour, crowdedness and surprise. Its vision was comic and defiant. It offered another remarkable take on Carson’s mapping of the Northern Irish experience, a mapping that has evolved and transformed with each new book.
In his latest collection, For All We Know, he successfully returns to the sonnet sequence. But now the effect is very different: more austere, more ambitiously structured, obsessed with an almost claustrophobic circling of character and event. The tone of the new work is melancholic, hushed, elegiac. Essentially, the poems are spoken by a man grieving the death of his long-term partner. This protagonist is constantly remembering and replaying a range of key events.
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