We're thrilled to announce that five Carcanet titles have been included in Poetry Book Society's Spring 2024 Selections!

The Spring Choice is Egg/Shell, the highly-anticipated second collection from prize-winning poet Victoria Kennefick. The Silence by Gillian Clarke, Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore and Eleanor Among the Saints by Rachel Mann were all awarded Spring Recommendations, whilst The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems by V.R. 'Bunny' Lang, edited by Rosa Campbell, was named the Special Commendation. Carcanet poet Sasha Dugdale was also awarded the PBS Translation Choice for her translation of Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, published by Bloodaxe Books.

All of the Spring Selections have gone to female authors from Northern publishers - the other selections have gone to Bloodaxe, who are also based in the north of England.

Carcanet M.D. Michael Schmidt said: 'We were startled - and of course delighted - to receive the PBS news of their Spring 2024 Choice and Recommendations. A clean sweep for Northern publishers! New
poets, beloved older poets, and poetic rediscoveries featured. The quality of the Northern publishers' lists was not a fruit of levelling up policies - Bloodaxe and Carcanet have been presences for a long time! And we intend to continue for a few decades more...'.