Call Mother a Lonely Field by Liam Carson
A memoir of an Irish-speaking childhood in Belfast, Liam Carson's story of his estrangement from, and reconciliation with his parents is a moving and powerfully told testament to the effects of the Troubles on family relationships there.
Carson was born in 1962. Liam was educated in a Catholic School in Belfast before reading English literature and philosophy at UCD. During the 1980s he lived in squats in Brixton and Kennington in London and worked in a variety of blue collar jobs. Returning to Ireland he worked for many years as a publicist for a variety of publishers. He is currently the director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which he founded in 2004. His reviews, critical articles, essays and poems have appeared in a wide range of periodicals, including Poetry Ireland Review, Fortnight, The Irish Review, New Hibernia Review, Comhar, An Guth, Irish Examiner and Sunday Tribune.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854115881 |
| ISBN 10 | 185411588X |
| Title | Call Mother a Lonely Field |
| Author | Liam Carson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2012-09-17 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Ondaatje Prize 2013 |
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