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Carcanet Shortlisted for Small Press of the Year Award

We are overjoyed to announce that we've been shortlisted for the Small Press Award in this year's British Book Awards! read more

Fawzi Karim shortlisted for the Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation

We're so pleased to share that Incomprehensible Lesson by the late Fawzi Karim, in versions by Anthony Howell, has been shortlisted for the inaugural Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation. read more

Eavan Boland Posthumously Wins Costa Poetry Award

It's an honour and a joy to announce that the late Eavan Boland's final volume The Historians has won the 2020 Costa Book Awards in the Poetry category! read more

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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.

Fleet Judith Willson

The Disguise Charles Boyle Ed. Christopher Reid

Collected Poems Moya Cannon

New Poetries VIII Ed. Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe

One, Two Angela Leighton

The Earliest Witnesses G.C. Waldrep

The Threadbare Coat Thomas A. Clark Ed. Matthew Welton

Collected Poems Anthony Burgess Ed. Jonathan Mann

The Air Year Caroline Bird

Runaway Jorie Graham

FURY David Morley

As Best We Can Jeffrey Wainwright

Growlery Katherine Horrex

Collected Poems Moya Cannon

Apocalypse Ed. James Keery

Catullus: Shibari Carmina Isobel Williams

Eat Or We Both Starve Victoria Kennefick

Roots Home Gillian Clarke

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Caroline Bird & Eavan Boland shortlisted for Costa Book Awards

We're thrilled to announce that Caroline Bird's The Air Year and Eavan Boland's The Historians have been shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards in the Poetry category! The news was announced at 7:30PM on BBC Radio 4's Front Row on Tuesday 24th November.
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Angela Leighton

Angela Leighton was born in Wakefiled to a Yorkshire father and a Neapolitan mother. As a result, doubleness has always been a part of her life, whether thinking in English or Italian, as a literary critic or a poet. She has published many works of criticism, most recently 'Hearing Things: The...read more

Poem of the Day

To Dover from Calais

Karen McCarthy Woolf

After midnight we drive through Sangatte
on the outskirts, where teenagers rush to the tunnel.

In the big-cat gleam of our headlamps
the boys pause for a heartbeat— disappear in a flash.

If you’re not really a Syrian
is it safer in the Congo, or Afghanistan?

While we all fiddle with our smartphones
sniffer dogs inhale the articulated lorry.

Two ferrymen tell me how they feel
okay because they pull up the bridge and sail away.

It’s only a joke if it’s funny
so I don’t laugh at ‘they weren’t exactly invited’.

Taken from 'Seasonal Disturbances '...