Welcome to the home of one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time. Carcanet's dynamic website offers:

• Our on-line shop, the ideal place to buy poetry. We offer excellent discounts, free postage and packing for UK orders, and the chance to receive new titles weeks before they reach the shops. Our fast, efficient and secure service means that most orders are dispatched within 24 hours.



• An opportunity to join our mailing list, browse our new titles and download our stocklist and current catalogue.



• Author biographies, portraits, book descriptions and book covers, and supplementary interviews, reviews and articles, and a growing sound archive. This is a delightful and inexhaustible primary information, research and reader development resource for general readers, booksellers, students and teachers.



• Regular news about contemporary literature and literary events, and an opportunity to join our weekly e-letter



• A free poem of the day, a Poet on Poet of the week, and an author of the month service.



• The story of Carcanet, a poetry-publishing phenomenon, from its modest birth in a farmhouse outside Oxford in 1970, through its survival of the Manchester Bomb in 1996, its rebirth and its editorial and creative achievements.



• Work experience and manuscript submission guidelines and contact details.



• A unique library of poetry and general literary links.

Carcanet Press is now in its fourth decade. In 2000 it was named the Sunday Times millennium Small Publisher of the Year. Four of our authors have received Nobel Prizes, nine have received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, six have received Pulitzer Prizes, among many other honours. Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation. Our FyfieldBooks - popularly-priced selections from the great European and American classics, from ancient to modern times - are at the core of our activities. So too are the OxfordPoets, formerly the poetry list of Oxford University Press. We also publish a range of inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and literary criticism.

Carcanet issues the controversial and illuminating literary magazine PN Review which appears six times a year.

We distribute Comma Press, fiction titles and the Optic Nerve Rockdrill CD Series, in collaboration with Birkbeck College, London.

We welcome feedback. Suggestions and comments can be emailed to info@carcanet.co.uk.