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Carcanet is Shortlisted for the IPG Alison Morrison Diversity Award!
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Martina Evans Shortlisted for Pigott Poetry Prize
We're over the moon to share the news that Now We Can Talk Openly About Men by Martina Evans has been shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week, chosen by adjudicators Jo Shapcott and Ian McMillan. read more
James Womack & Rory Waterman Shortlisted for Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize
We're so pleased to announce that James Womack and Rory Waterman have been shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize with their respective collections On Trust: A Book of Lies and Sarajevo Roses . Earlier today, the Ledbury Poetry Festival announced the six collections shortlisted for the prestigious Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections published in Britain and Ireland in 2017 and 2018. read more
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Carcanet win Northern Small Press of the Year Award!
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
The Spiny Cockle
From their metre-deep sandy resorts
the waves have raised these hard orbs:
clenched like cement hedgehogs
they wear their ribs inside out
and pricked with a white picket fence
to keep their soapdish interiors –
their lattice-gill-slither selves –
from the crunch of an oystercatcher’s kiss
or the orange fog of this starfish
that causes one cockle to buckle and let
its long pink foot slip like a leg
from the slit of its crenulated skirt:
soft pogo on which it floppy-leaps
away across the wet desert.
Taken from 'New Poetries VII'...the waves have raised these hard orbs:
clenched like cement hedgehogs
they wear their ribs inside out
and pricked with a white picket fence
to keep their soapdish interiors –
their lattice-gill-slither selves –
from the crunch of an oystercatcher’s kiss
or the orange fog of this starfish
that causes one cockle to buckle and let
its long pink foot slip like a leg
from the slit of its crenulated skirt:
soft pogo on which it floppy-leaps
away across the wet desert.
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