In Still Life , Ciaran Carson guides us through centuries of art and around the Belfast Waterworks where he walks with his wife, Deirdre; into the chemo ward; into memory and the allusive quicksilver of his mind, always bidding us to look carefully at the details of a painter\'s canvas, as well as the sunlight of day.
A thorn becomes the nib of a writer\'s.
This master translator chooses here to translate the painter\'s brush with the poet\'s pen, finding resemblances, echoes, and parallels.
In Still Life , Ciaran Carson guides us through centuries of art and around the Belfast Waterworks where he walks with his wife, Deirdre; into the chemo ward; into memory and the allusive quicksilver of his mind, always bidding us to look carefully at the details of a painter\'s canvas, as well as the sunlight of day
