We're happy to announce that Dane Holt's upcoming collection, Father's Father's Father, has been awarded a Poetry Book Society Spring 2025 Recommendation! Due to be released in March 2025, Holt's first collection with Carcanet will be sent out to Poetry Book Society subscribers as part of its spring mailing. You can read the full list of spring selections here.

Congratulations Dane!

Dane Holt’s subject is often the aftermath of tragedy – ecological, personal or social – but these poems grieve in surprising ways. Deflection, displacement and refracted voices combine to animate a world of brilliantly realised situations. And Holt’s characters, though always articulate, do not precisely comprehend their own relation to what they inherit. Compelling, funny, endlessly inventive, this bold debut collection explores the formation and disillusion of masculinity and community, exposing just how tender and brittle these constructs are.