Carcanet Press

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.

At present, Carcanet is unable to supply books to customers in the EU due to changes in VAT regulations (as of 1st July 2021). We are addressing the situation and will resume direct supply as soon as possible. Meanwhile, we ask EU customers to source Carcanet books from your bookshops or preferred on-line retailer. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience.

Winter Recipes from the Collective Louise Glück

100 Days Gabriel Josipovici

The Crash Wake and other poems Owen Lowery

the clarity of distant things Jane Duran

Field Requiem Sheri Benning

On the Way to Jerusalem Farm Carola Luther

Poems and Satires Edna St. Vincent Millay Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders

PN Review 260 Ed. Andrew Latimer, John McAuliffe and Michael Schmidt

Winter Recipes from the Collective Louise Glück

The Crash Wake and other poems Owen Lowery

100 Days Gabriel Josipovici

Virga Togara Muzanenhamo

Take us the Little Foxes Miles Burrows

Midnight in the Kant Hotel Rod Mengham

Grand Larcenies Ed. P.C. Evans Tr. P.C. Evans

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Featured News

Carcanet and Covid-19

Carcanet Press’s Manchester office remains open for the present, with a skeleton staff; but most staff, for their safety, are working remotely as we are keen to avoid contributing to the spread of the virus.

Most of the live events and conferences we were arranging or collaborating with are being postponed. Decisions currently affect events through May. We will keep you informed via our e-letter and social media for further updates.

Some publication dates may be moved. We are reluctant to delay books but given how the situation is affecting the book trade it may soon be necessary to consider doing so for the sake of authors, readers and the trade itself. We are very concerned for bookshops where footfall is already much reduced. We are looking for ways to collaborate with them. While Carcanet’s own on-line bookstore remains in business, we urge all our readers to source books from the bricks and mortar bookshops, using their mail-order services and supporting them wherever possible. Most of our books can be bought as e-books from all the major suppliers.

Carcanet’s social media will continue to inform and entertain.

PN Review is on course and issue 253 is currently ‘in the works’.

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Featured Author

Owen Lowery

Owen Lowery was born in 1968. Formerly a British Judo champion, he suffered a spinal injury while competing and became a ventilator-dependent tetraplegic. He had an MA in Creative Writing from Bolton University, where he also completed his PhD in the extrospective poetry of Keith Douglas. His poetry appeared in Stand,...read more

Poem of the Day

Austrian pastorals

Phoebe Power

i           the lake that’s black in January.

ii          an a.m. running stream,
            mineral off the Loser mountain.

iii         stepped out the car in Ratten
            to a high clear air, „Die Post“, tractor.

iv        Wolfsburg, for instance, was a zone of deaf white.

v          and the Villach canal, sprayed with weed.

vi         I lived on a hill in Kärnten
            with piebald goats and barns.

vii        I’d go back to Tyrol’s
            whistling river,
            I’d go to Voralberg’s
            houses made from wooden feathers.

viii       I climbed forests of mountains
            and came out to insects, flowers,
            razed trees, cattle.

where I walked the smooth roads
daily, passing chickens and the ridge
above the cemetery.

Taken from 'Shrines of Upper Austria'...