From the Small Back Room: A Festschrift for Ciaran Carson. Belfast: Netherlea Press, 2009. Pp 236. Portrait of Carson by Shawcross loosely inserted. Bound in full grey suede boards, house in publisher’s slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition of 150 copies, Signed by Ciaran Carson, Neil Shawcross & Seamus Heaney (this copy unnumbered).

This festschrift was produced to celebrate Ciaran Carson’s 60th birthday in October 2008. It gathers poems, fiction, essays, and interviews by a distinguished roster of contributors, including Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, and Sinéad Morrissey.

Heaney’s introduction is accompanied by his poem “Wraiths,” later collected in Human Chain with a dedication to Ciaran Carson.