Carcanet are delighted to announce that Kei Miller's collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, has been shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Book Awards in the poetry category. The shortlist was announced last night (Tuesday 18th November) on BBC Radio 4's Front Row. 

The Cartographer.... has already won the Forward Prize for Best Collection this year and was recently shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Miller's previous collection, A Light Song of Light, has also been selected as one of twenty titles for the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets 2014 promotion.

The Costa Book Awards honour some of the most outstanding books of the year written by authors based in the UK and Ireland. There are five categories - First Novel, Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s Book - with one of the five winners chosen as Book of the Year, announced at an awards ceremony in London every January. Since the introduction of the book of the year award in 1985, it has been won 11 times by a novel, five times by a first novel, five times by a biography, seven times by a collection of poetry and once by a children's book. 

Winners in the novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book categories are announced on 5 January 2015. An overall winner - the 2014 Costa Book of the Year - is announced on 27 January. Winners in the five categories each receive £5,000. The winner of the Costa Book of the Year receives £30,000.

Congrats to Kei!