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Sasha Dugdale Shortlisted for Derek Walcott Poetry Prize

Congratulations to Sasha Dugdale, who has been shortlisted for the 2021 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize with her most recent collection, Deformations! read more

Carcanet Shortlisted for Small Press of the Year Award

We are overjoyed to announce that we've been shortlisted for the Small Press Award in this year's British Book Awards! read more

Eavan Boland Posthumously Wins Costa Poetry Award

It's an honour and a joy to announce that the late Eavan Boland's final volume The Historians has won the 2020 Costa Book Awards in the Poetry category! read more

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American Originality Louise Glück

The Extasie John Gallas

American Mules Martina Evans

Mornings in the Dark (3e) Graham Greene Ed. David Parkinson

Eat Or We Both Starve Victoria Kennefick

Roots Home Gillian Clarke

Catullus: Shibari Carmina Isobel Williams

Fleet Judith Willson

New Poetries VIII Ed. Michael Schmidt and John McAuliffe

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Carcanet Shortlisted for Small Press of the Year Award

We are overjoyed to announce that we've been shortlisted for the Small Press Award in this year's British Book Awards! This is the third year running we've been shortlisted since being named the regional winner in 2019.
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John Gallas

John Gallas was born in New Zealand in 1950. He came to England in the 1970s to study Old Icelandic at Oxford and has since lived and worked in York, Liverpool, Upholland, Little Ness, Rothwell, Bursa, Leicester, Diyarbakir, Coalville and Markfield, as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published...read more

Poem of the Day

After Lunch

Dan Burt

Mach two the green sign glows;
      You’re far behind
Fifty thousand feet shows.
      And far below.

Crew start dinner service,
      We ate hours back,
Ask ‘Scotch, soda, claret?’
      Our voices low.

Gladly I’d have missed this plane,
      Had you but asked,
To run with you again at dawn
      Hyde Park’s pale rose lined paths.

Taken from 'New Poetries V'...