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Sinéad Morrissey to Receive the 2024 Seamus Heaney Award, Japan

Many congratulations to Sinéad Morrissey, who has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 Seamus Heaney Award, Japan! read more

Jorie Graham Shortlisted for 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize

We're delighted to share the news that after being longlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize, Jorie Graham has made it onto the shortlist with her collection To 2040! read more

Jason Allen-Paisant Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2024

More good prize news for Jason Allen-Paisant and his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello, which has made it onto the 2024 Jhalak Prize shortlist! read more

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Goddamned Selected Poems Stanley Moss

Still City Oksana Maksymchuk

The Strongbox Sasha Dugdale

Coco Island Christine Roseeta Walker

Not a Moment Too Soon Frank Kuppner

that which appears Thomas A Clark

Come Here To This Gate Rory Waterman

Baby Schema Isabel Galleymore

The Silence Gillian Clarke

Near-Life Experience Rowland Bagnall

The Iron Bridge Rebecca Hurst

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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'...