PositiveThe Telegraph (UK)[Carson\'s] work embraces both fragments and loss ... All this sounds like quite a bulk of scholarship. But she isn’t a writer who wants to make reading difficult for us. Unlike with TS Eliot or Geoffrey Hill, one doesn’t sense that the agenda is to tell the reader, \'You find this difficult, don’t you? And that’s what’s wrong with society.\' She explores her own feelings, and explains the words that respond to them. As a result, the reader can come away feeling these feelings, these fragments, this loss – they’re problems we all share. We learn to live with the bits that are fragmentary, dark or hard to work out. Now there are these fragments to keep her going; and now it’s the reader’s turn to make sense of his or her own loss.
