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I'm filled with admiration for what you've achieved, and particularly for the hard work and the 'cottage industry' aspect of it.
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Lorna Goodison Awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
We are overjoyed to share the news that Lorna Goodison, Jamaica's poet laureate and a dear Carcanet author, has been selected as the recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. read more
John Ash (1948-2019)
Carcanet is truly saddened to announce the passing of JohnAsh, a great poet and friend to the press, who died today aged 71. read more
PBS Spring 2020 Special Commendation for Srinivas Rayaprol
We're really pleased to share the news that Srinivas Rayaprol's forthcoming Selected Poems and Prose edited by Graziano Krätli and Vidyan Ravinthiran has been specially commended by the Poetry Book Society in their Spring 2020 choices! 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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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... |
Featured Author
Mina Gorji
Mina Gorji was born in Tehran and grew up in London. She lives in Cambridge where she is a lecturer in the English Faculty, Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. Her published work includes a study of John Clare, and essays on awkwardness, mess, weeds and rudeness. Her poems have...read more |
Poem of the Day
Renting Emily Dickinson's Bedroom by the Hour
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'...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.
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