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Carcanet Announce New Video Series

We're thrilled to announce that we've teamed up with Pixel Assist to produce a new series of videos for our YouTube channel, featuring poets reading from both Carcanet and PN Review . Once a week - on a Friday morning - we'll share a video of one of our poets reading apiece of their work, recorded by PixelAssist . This will be available on our YouTube page , featured in our newsletter and across our social media platforms . The videos are subtitled, with links to the collection/issue they are taken from at the end. read more

Elaine Feinstein Dies at the Age of 88

We are saddened to announce that Elaine Feinstein (b. read more

Free Carcanet Tote for Orders £15+

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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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.

A Kingdom of Love Rachel Mann

Donegal Tarantella Moya Cannon

Gaudent Angeli Mary O'Malley

In Nearby Bushes Kei Miller

In Her Feminine Sign Dunya Mikhail

So Many Rooms Laura Scott

City of Departures Helen Tookey

Double-Tracking Rosanna Mclaughlin

Salvage At Twilight Dan Burt

The Action Roger Garfitt

Afterwardness Mimi Khalvati

Impossible Loves Dario Jaramillo Tr. Richard Gwyn

Gilgamesh Retold Jenny Lewis

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!
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Featured Author

Moya Cannon

Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with five published collections, the most recent being Keats Lives (Carcanet). The mountains, the shoreline and our primal and enduring responses to the beauty of the endangered earth are the inspiration for many of her poems. Archaeology and geology figure too as gateways to deeper...read more

Poem of the Day

Renting Emily Dickinson's Bedroom by the Hour

Tara Bergin

I don’t want to do anything.
I just want to watch.
I want to see what she saw.
I don’t want to touch
or be touched;
I want a different kind of pain.
If I can get it once
I won’t come back again.

Taken from 'The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx'...

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