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Tara Bergin Wins Michael Hartnett Poetry Award

Congratulations to Tara Bergin, who has been announced as the winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024! read more

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

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Tablets Dunya Mikhail

Library Lives Stella Halkyard

Conjurors Julian Orde Ed. James Keery

Citizen Poet Eavan Boland Ed. Jody Allen Randolph

Scattered Snows, to the North Carl Phillips

Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici

Apple Thieves Beverley Bie Brahic

Dante's Purgatorio Philip Terry

Emotional Support Horse Claudine Toutoungi

Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: The Complete Works John Gallas

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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

After Lunch

Dan Burt

Mach two the green sign glows;
      You’re far behind
Fifty thousand feet shows.
      And far below.

Crew start dinner service,
      We ate hours back,
Ask ‘Scotch, soda, claret?’
      Our voices low.

Gladly I’d have missed this plane,
      Had you but asked,
To run with you again at dawn
      Hyde Park’s pale rose lined paths.

Taken from 'New Poetries V'...