Belfast Confetti

Belfast Confetti is quite a strongly written poem. It sound like the author is trying to put you in the middle of a riot where you feel there is no escape from. The poem is about a riot in Belfast in which Protestants used scrap metal objects as missiles in anti-Catholic protests. The Poem tells me that the people in the riots must have been very scared and felt trapped, so this makes me think about how scared people must’ve been in this situation. One of the main quotes from the poem is “And the explosion, an asterisk on the map.” This explains that at some point during the riot there was an explosion that (in a certain sense) shook the map. Ciarán Carson was the Irish poet that wrote this poem. He won the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Poetry award for this poem.