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We're so excited that we're approaching our fiftieth birthday later this year that we want to give a gift back to you, our customers. read more
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Carcanet 50th Anniversary Plans
Since 1969 Carcanet has been committed to publishing poetry from around the world, and to mark the past fifty years we're busy planning parties, symposia, exhibitions and more to celebrate! read more
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Sinead Morrissey reads from T S Eliot Prize-winning Parallax at the Royal Festival Hall
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Welcome to Carcanet Press, one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time. Now in its fifth decade, Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as a range of inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and literary criticism.
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Carcanet at 50
Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years!
Read all about our anniversary plans! Since 1969 Carcanet has been committed to publishing poetry from around the world, and to mark the past fifty years we're busy planning parties, symposia, exhibitions and more to celebrate! You can read an interview with our founder and editorial director, Michael Schmidt, in The Bookseller, where we also reveal key dates for your diaries over from the autumn onwards! read more... |
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Lucy Burnett
Lucy Burnett is from south-west Scotland, and in recent years has been based in the north of England. She currently lives in Cockermouth, where she gets out in the fells at every opportunity, and works as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Cumbria. Previously she has worked at...read more |
Poem of the Day
Inishbofin: I
for Rebecca Barr
A stranger bringing water to a stranger.
One unlocked house among all unlocked houses.
A line of stone along a line of clover.
Beyond a road with stone and clover edges
A looked-for line between wet sky and water
Seams non-existence: large and swift, headed out,
Disappeared in a tilting and a pouring.
How have I been so stupid and not known this?
Heaven most probably is underwater,
Sounding with ease, increasing pressure on us.
Too light for many stars. Too soon for most birds.
Crex crex: a hidden and unvarnished corncrake.
Some way ahead, Rebecca in the pink.
Taken from 'Venus as a Bear'...A stranger bringing water to a stranger.
One unlocked house among all unlocked houses.
A line of stone along a line of clover.
Beyond a road with stone and clover edges
A looked-for line between wet sky and water
Seams non-existence: large and swift, headed out,
Disappeared in a tilting and a pouring.
How have I been so stupid and not known this?
Heaven most probably is underwater,
Sounding with ease, increasing pressure on us.
Too light for many stars. Too soon for most birds.
Crex crex: a hidden and unvarnished corncrake.
Some way ahead, Rebecca in the pink.
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