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Sasha Dugdale Longlisted for Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

Well done to Sasha Dugdale, who has been longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox! read more

Father's Father's Father by Dane Holt Named PBS Spring Recommendation

We're happy to announce that Dane Holt 's upcoming collection, Father's Father's Father, has been awarded a Poetry Book Society Spring 2025 Recommendation! read more

Carl Phillips Longlisted for National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Congratulations to Carl Phillips, who has been longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry with the American edition of Scattered Snows, to the North! read more

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Fourth and Walnut Jeremy Over

Cancer Tom Raworth

Fower Pessoas Colin Bramwell

The Face in the Well Rebecca Watts

Invisible Dog Fabio Morábito Tr. Richard Gwyn

Collected Poems Mimi Khalvati

One Little Room Peter McDonald

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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'...