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Alexander Goehr Dies Aged 92

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Alexander Goehr, renowned composer and teacher, died on Monday 26th August at his home in Cambridgeshire, aged 92. read more

Jee Leong Koh shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2024

We're delighted to share the news that Jee Leong Koh has been shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2024 in two categories! read more

Stanley Moss Dies Aged 99

We are deeply saddened to share the news that Stanley Moss, a longtime friend of the press, died on Friday 5 July in New City, N.Y., read more

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Scattered Snows, to the North Carl Phillips

Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici

Apple Thieves Beverley Bie Brahic

Polkadot Wounds Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Why Are You Shouting? James Womack

Sidetracks Bei Dao Tr. Jeffrey Yang

Citizen Poet Eavan Boland Ed. Jody Allen Randolph

Conjurors Julian Orde Ed. James Keery

Library Lives Stella Halkyard

Tablets Dunya Mikhail

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The 2024 Carcanet Catalogue

Catalogue

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

Renting Emily Dickinson's Bedroom by the Hour

Tara Bergin

I don’t want to do anything.
I just want to watch.
I want to see what she saw.
I don’t want to touch
or be touched;
I want a different kind of pain.
If I can get it once
I won’t come back again.

Taken from 'The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx'...