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Andrew Shanks Shortlisted for Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2024

Congratulations to Andrew Shanks, who has been shortlisted for the Schlegel-Tieck Prize with Revelation Freshly Erupting by Nelly Sachs! read more

Andrew Shanks Wins 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation

Congratulations to Andrew Shanks, who has been announced as the winner of the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation with Revelation Freshly Erupting by Nelly Sachs! read more

Shuntaro Tanikawa Dies aged 92

We were deeply saddened to learn that Shuntaro Tanikawa, celebrated Japanese poet and translator, died in Tokyo on Wednesday 13th November, aged 92. read more

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The Face in the Well Rebecca Watts

Invisible Dog Fabio Morábito Tr. Richard Gwyn

Collected Poems Mimi Khalvati

One Little Room Peter McDonald

Fourth and Walnut Jeremy Over

Cancer Tom Raworth

Fower Pessoas Fernando Pessoa and Colin Bramwell

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The 2024 Carcanet Catalogue

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The 2024 catalogue is now available, giving a glimpse of all the collections that Carcanet will be publishing this year.
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Featured Author

Rachel Mann

Rachel Mann is a priest, writer and broadcaster. She is the author of thirteen books, including her debut poetry collection, A Kingdom of Love (Carcanet, 2019), and the acclaimed non-fiction, Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory, and God (DLT, 2017). She is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at The Manchester Writing...read more

Poem of the Day

The Widow and the Kaleidoscope

Sasha Dugdale

How mirrors can make an infinite pattern
of the randomly placed how one isosceles
glows with two crystals that slide even as
I watch there is no need to turn for even
the lightest movement will perturb
the pattern translates itself around the whole
in new perfections always perfect always
fearfully falling into new associations

Taken from 'Joy'...