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Carcanet Press will be exhibiting at the 2019 London Book Fair for the full 3 days. We will be situated on stand 6e70, a subsidiary of the IPG stand. To see the full floorplan of the fair, please see here.The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. In 2019 LBF will celebrate its 48-year anniversary. Staged annually, LBF sees more than 25,000 publishing professionals arrive in London for the week of the Fair to learn, network, and kick off their year of business. Carcanet Press is one of the outstanding independent literary lists of our time. We publish the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English from around the world, and in translation, and a range of inventive fiction and criticism and other prose. In 2018 we launched a new Carcanet Classics imprint, publishing challenging ancient and modern works. In 2019 we are celebrating Carcanet's 50th anniversary, with symposia, events and readings planned throughout the UK, and a list of new and Carcanet core writers. To find out more about LBF please click here. read more... |
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Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer inspired by other voices, ranging from live Caribbean connexions and an Indian diaspora background to the landscapes where Capildeo travels and lives. Their poetry (seven books and four pamphlets) includes Measures of Expatriation, awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2016. Following...read more |
Poem of the Day
With Hindsight
The way to the stomach is through the heart.
If he’s been eating with his eyes, ask him exactly how much
He’s been beholding. If his words are drowned out
By his actions, tell him not to protest so much.
A little yearning is a dangerous thing; he clearly hasn’t been
Eating his apple-a-day. If only the incision were skin-deep.
No wonder he’s blind. But even a worm will turn –
Softly, softly – from a piece of string to a length of old rope.
But give him enough and he’ll hang.
If God had meant us to fall, he’d have given us wings –
But then there’d be no work for drinkers.
So, those who cannot preach, practice.
Truth is wasted on the tongue.
Taken from 'New Poetries V'...If he’s been eating with his eyes, ask him exactly how much
He’s been beholding. If his words are drowned out
By his actions, tell him not to protest so much.
A little yearning is a dangerous thing; he clearly hasn’t been
Eating his apple-a-day. If only the incision were skin-deep.
No wonder he’s blind. But even a worm will turn –
Softly, softly – from a piece of string to a length of old rope.
But give him enough and he’ll hang.
If God had meant us to fall, he’d have given us wings –
But then there’d be no work for drinkers.
So, those who cannot preach, practice.
Truth is wasted on the tongue.
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