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Shuntaro Tanikawa Dies aged 92

We were deeply saddened to learn that Shuntaro Tanikawa, celebrated Japanese poet and translator, died in Tokyo on Wednesday 13th November, aged 92. read more

Carcanet Press Relocates to The University of Manchester Main Library

Martina Evans Shortlisted for 2024 PEN Heaney Prize

Many congratulations to Martina Evans, who has been shortlisted for the 2024 PEN Heaney Prize with The Coming Thing! read more

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Welcome to Carcanet Press, one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time. Now in its sixth decade, Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and critical writing.

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Invisible Dog Fabio Morábito Tr. Richard Gwyn

Collected Poems Mimi Khalvati

One Little Room Peter McDonald

Emotional Support Horse Claudine Toutoungi

Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: The Complete Works John Gallas

Dante's Purgatorio Philip Terry

Citizen Poet Eavan Boland Ed. Jody Allen Randolph

Library Lives Stella Halkyard

Tablets Dunya Mikhail

Conjurors Julian Orde Ed. James Keery

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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

Father Wilcock's Evening Hymn

Peter Davidson

Unfold your kingdoms in the western sky,
Your transient citadels of ash and rose;
Disclose no more,
Your chain of mercies which has shaped our day.

Enfold us in the shadows of your hours,
Within your counterpoints of fading light;
Compose our night
All vast and far in consonance of stars.

That I with all below may raise my heart;
More fortunate than I can hope or know,
If so I may
In your great consort bear but the lowest part.

Taken from 'Arctic Elegies'...