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Kei Miller Reading at the University of Leeds

Carcanet poet and editor Kei Miller will be reading from his work at the University of Leeds on Tuesday 7 February. read more

Marilyn Hacker Wins Argana International Poetry Award

Marilyn Hacker , author of Essays on Departure and translator of Venus Khoury-Ghata's Alphabets of Sand , won the 2011 Argana International Poetry Award, granted by Morocco’s Bayt Achiir (House of Poetry). read more

'Unexpectedly Modern': Dr Sandeep Parmar to give a paper on Paris by Hope Mirrlees

Dr Sandeep Parmar , editor of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees , will be giving a paper entitled 'Unexpectedly Modern: Hope Mirrlees's Paris ' at the Northern Modernism Seminar in Durham on 17 February. read more

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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

Proof of Identity Neil Powell

Incorrigibly Plural Ed. Fran Brearton and Edna Longley

The Collected Poems Elizabeth Jennings Ed. Emma Mason

An Andrew Crozier Reader Andrew Crozier Ed. Ian Brinton

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

Glass is Elastic Jon Glover

New and Collected Poems Clive Wilmer

New Poetries V Ed. Michael Schmidt with Eleanor Crawforth

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

The February Promotion: Memory and Imagination

The Carcanet February Promotion

The February Online Promotion is underway! Get 20% off selected titles in our Memory and Imagination month. We've delved deep into the Carcanet backlist, and handpicked some of the most thought-provoking recent titles to give you some ideas for reading.
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Featured Author

Roy Fuller

Roy Fuller was born in Failsworth, Lancashire in 1912 and grew up in Blackpool. On leaving school, he trained as a solicitor. He married in 1936, and his son John was born the following year. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and then spent his working...read more

Poem of the Day

An Emotion Constitutes a Magical Transformation of the World

Patrick Mackie

A deepening ensues - like the feeling of watching
the chiaroscuro being added to a charcoal portrait of yourself

after you've finished posing. You can do nothing now but witness
the accretion of shades - the plush layering - a revelation by smudging.

Taken from 'New Poetries II'...