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Tookey, Galleymore & Fayyaz Shortlisted for Forward Prizes
We're overjoyed to announce three shortlistings in this year's Forward Prizes for Poetry - one in each category! read more
Phoebe Power Shortlisted for Somerset Maugham Award
We are delighted to share the news that Phoebe Power has been shortlisted for this year's Somerset Maugham Award from the Society of Authors, for her debut collection, Shrines of Upper Austria ! read more
Ken Cockburn Shortlisted for Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize
We're overjoyed to share the news that Ken Cockburn has been shortlisted for the 2019 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for translation, for his versions of Christine Marendon 's poems in Heroines from Abroad , a dual-language German-English text. read more
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Carcanet are thrilled to announce that we are the winner of the British Book Award for Small Press of the Year in the Northern region! The winners were announced lat night (13th March) at the London Book Fair with Wild Things Books winning the inaugural overall Small Press of the Year award. We were honoured to be shortlisted last month alongside our friends at Comma Press, Smokestack Books, Dead Ink and Bluemoose Books, and so grateful to have been given this award. We'd like to thank the judges, The Bookseller, all of our incredible, hardworking authors, editors and translators and our team here in Manchester. Independent publishing is vital, and the creation of this award category is a victory for all small presses. This is an honour; we are very thankful. A special mention to Comma Press who were highly commended at the awards last night too - we're proud to work alongside you, and of all the work you do. read more... |
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Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, in 1954 and educated locally and at University College Cork where he was auditor of the English Literature Society. He has published many collections of poetry, including The First Convention, The Sorrow Garden, Lost Province, Merchant Prince and The Last...read more |
Poem of the Day
This is Yarrow
In this country house I had a dream of the city
as if the thick yarrow heads had told me,
as if the chokered dove had told me,
or the yellow elder seeds had made me ask –
and in the dream I went up to the dirty bus station
and I saw the black side of the power station
and as if the brown moth’s tapping at the window
made me say it I said, do you still love me?
And when I woke and went to the window,
your tender voice told me: this is yarrow,
this is elder, this is the collared dove.
Taken from 'New Poetries V'...as if the thick yarrow heads had told me,
as if the chokered dove had told me,
or the yellow elder seeds had made me ask –
and in the dream I went up to the dirty bus station
and I saw the black side of the power station
and as if the brown moth’s tapping at the window
made me say it I said, do you still love me?
And when I woke and went to the window,
your tender voice told me: this is yarrow,
this is elder, this is the collared dove.
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