For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Mark Ford are interwoven into a bountiful

are interwoven into a bountiful poetic fibre

Jack Mapanje

Each poem deploys a forensic precision: vivid images

Alan Dent is a poet

For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Mark Ford are interwoven into a bountifulShortly after a man and a woman meet for the first time in a second hand clothes shop in Belfast, a bomb goes off. It is some time in the 1970s. They become lovers. For All We Know is their story, told in the recent past: a meditation on love, place, memory, loss and language, how people know each other, misunderstand each other, or translate each other, not to mention the events and circumstances which are beyond their control. Gesturing towards a