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Thomas A Clark Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021

It's a pleasure to share the news that Carcanet poet Thomas A Clark is included on the longlist for this years Laurel Prize with his Selected Poems, The Threadbare Coat, which was edited by Matthew Welton. read more

Chakraborty, Galleymore & Kelly on Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Shortlist

We're thrilled to share the news that three Carcanet poets have been selected for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize: Sumita Chakraborty with her collection Arrow, Isabel Galleymore with Significant Other, and Lisa Kelly with A Map Towards Fluency. read more

Caroline Bird Shortlisted for Polari Prize

We're over the moon to share the news that Caroline Bird has made it onto the Polari Prize shortlist with her wonderful collection, The Air Year. read more

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At present, Carcanet is unable to supply books to customers in the EU due to changes in VAT regulations (as of 1st July 2021). We are addressing the situation and will resume direct supply as soon as possible. Meanwhile, we ask EU customers to source Carcanet books from your bookshops or preferred on-line retailer. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience.

the clarity of distant things Jane Duran

Field Requiem Sheri Benning

On the Way to Jerusalem Farm Carola Luther

Poems and Satires Edna St. Vincent Millay Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders

PN Review 260 Ed. Andrew Latimer, John McAuliffe and Michael Schmidt

Winter Recipes from the Collective Louise Glück

The Crash Wake and other poems Owen Lowery

100 Days Gabriel Josipovici

Virga Togara Muzanenhamo

Take us the Little Foxes Miles Burrows

Midnight in the Kant Hotel Rod Mengham

Grand Larcenies Ed. P.C. Evans Tr. P.C. Evans

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Carcanet and Covid-19

Carcanet Press’s Manchester office remains open for the present, with a skeleton staff; but most staff, for their safety, are working remotely as we are keen to avoid contributing to the spread of the virus.

Most of the live events and conferences we were arranging or collaborating with are being postponed. Decisions currently affect events through May. We will keep you informed via our e-letter and social media for further updates.

Some publication dates may be moved. We are reluctant to delay books but given how the situation is affecting the book trade it may soon be necessary to consider doing so for the sake of authors, readers and the trade itself. We are very concerned for bookshops where footfall is already much reduced. We are looking for ways to collaborate with them. While Carcanet’s own on-line bookstore remains in business, we urge all our readers to source books from the bricks and mortar bookshops, using their mail-order services and supporting them wherever possible. Most of our books can be bought as e-books from all the major suppliers.

Carcanet’s social media will continue to inform and entertain.

PN Review is on course and issue 253 is currently ‘in the works’.

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Carola Luther

Carola Luther ’s first two collections, Walking the Animals (2004) and Arguing with Malarchy (2011) were published by Carcanet Press. Walking the Animals was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. Herd, a pamphlet of poems, was published by The Wordsworth Trust where Carola was Poet in Residence in...read more

Poem of the Day

Tree

Ned Denny

for Zephir, b. 18.8.04

I root myself at the heart
of lucid, pathless space,
fingers in all directions
braced against the silence.

I am a pine, bristling
with dark electricity.
For a hundred million years
I have brooded over mysteries.

I am a plane, my great leaves
flapping like anoraks
beneath the cocksure
patter of the rain.

I reach from dirt to light,
equally expansive
in skies and under earth,
basking in blackness

and gripping empty air;
I am a splintered column
taking heaven’s weight,
a river falling sunwards,

a mind lit by strange birds
at the heart of space,
fingers in all directions
opened to the day’s clear flame

Taken from 'New Poetries VII'...