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Patrick McGuinness at Literature Wales

Patrick McGuinness will feature at a reading and discussion entitled 'Fiction, Memoir and Memory' at 7pm on Monday 30 January. read more

Moya Cannon, Sasha Dugdale and Olivia McCannon at Southbank Centre

Carcanet poets Moya Cannon , Sasha Dugdale and Olivia McCannon will be launching their new collections in a free event at Southbank Centre on 1 February at 8pm. read more

2012 Carcanet Catalogue now available!

We are delighted to announce that the Carcanet 2012 catalogue is now available. read more

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Featured Audio

Jeffrey Wainwright at the 2011 Manchester Literature Festival (13:35 mins)

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Featured Review

Review of Second Best Moments In Chinese History - Darian Leader, the Independent, 11 November 2011

'Kuppner's poetry invites us to reflect on human knowledge and the ineffable, trivial nature of existence; it is true philosophy.' read more

Featured Interview

Interview with Les Murray by Nicholas Wroe, the Guardian Review, 20th November 2010

For the last few decades all of Les Murray's books of poetry have opened with the same two statements. read more

Welcome to Carcanet Press, one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time. Now in its fifth decade, Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as a range of inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and literary criticism.

Selected Poems Roy Fuller Ed. John Fuller

Incorrigibly Plural Ed. Fran Brearton and Edna Longley

Proof of Identity Neil Powell

The Collected Poems Elizabeth Jennings Ed. Emma Mason

The Raven (2e) Edgar Allan Poe Ed. C.H. Sisson

An Andrew Crozier Reader Andrew Crozier Ed. Ian Brinton

Glass is Elastic Jon Glover

New and Collected Poems Clive Wilmer

Exactly My Own Length Olivia McCannon

Child Mimi Khalvati

Hands Moya Cannon

Under Storm's Wing Helen Thomas and Myfanwy Thomas

New Collected Poems Eavan Boland

The Humble Administrator's Garden Vikram Seth

New Selected Poems Edwin Morgan

Carcanet's January Sale

Carcanet's January Sale

Happy New Year! Carcanet is celebrating the start of 2012 with a 20% discount across all titles in our online shop, and free UK postage and packing. This exciting offer is only available until the end of the month, so start shopping now!
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Featured Author

Jon Glover

Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943 and was educated at the University of Leeds, where he met Jon Silkin, Ken Smtih, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Redgrove, David Wright and Jeffrey Wainwright and started to help produce and edit Stand magazine. He spent the year 1966-7 in the United States with...read more

Poem of the Day

Winter Festival

Sinead Morrissey

They'll padlock themselves with sake against the cold.
They'll bandage their loins. They'll straddle a drum on its side
Made from pulled skin and the sign of an upright swastika

And they'll move on a sea of bare men's shoulders, tall as trees,
Banging only when the silence has become unendurable.
In the alley there's a pyramid of bright flesh and lanterns, refusing to be born.

Taken from 'New Poetries II'...