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Rebecca Goss Longlisted for 2025 New Angle Prize

Congratulations to Rebecca Goss, who has been longlisted for the 2025 New Angle Prize for Literature with her collection Latch! read more

Mimi Khalvati and Claudine Toutoungi Longlisted for Jhalak Prize 2025

Many congratulations to Mimi Khalvati and Claudine Toutoungi, who have both been longlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Poetry Prize with their books Collected Poems and Emotional Support Horse! read more

Capildeo and Walker Shortlisted for 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Many congratulations to Anthony Vahni Capildeo and Christine Roseeta Walker, who have both been shortlisted in the poetry category of this year's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature with their books Polkadot Wounds and Coco Island! read more

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Heirloom Catherine-Esther Cowie

Small Pointed Things Erica McAlpine

Dante's Inferno Lorna Goodison

A History of Western Music August Kleinzahler

Father's Father's Father Dane Holt

Plenitude Thomas McCarthy

Fourth and Walnut Jeremy Over

Cancer Tom Raworth

Fower Pessoas 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

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'...