The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.
An edition of the "Collected Poems" of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth-century.
The first ever collection in English of Ice Age Poetry, drawn from the cave drawings and inscriptions at Lascaux, unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century.
Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death.
An autobiography emerges from this Covid diary by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright.
An erotic, humorous, inventive translation of the late Roman poet Catullus through the lens of shibari (Japanese rope bondage).
A translation of Pablo Neruda's poems that were written in "Los versos del capitan" as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film "Il Postino".
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise Gluck.
New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female poet.
From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with luminous precision.
A landmark gathering of the first three decades of work by America's preeminent living poet.
"There is an Anger That Moves" is written by a poet from the Caribbean.
A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers, Wallace Stevens, and John Berryman.
A selection from the work of one of modern Greece's poets. It is drawn from various periods of his career and traces his development from early surrealism, in which he transforms French influence into a distinct personal voice and mythology, through the dramatic style of "The Axion Esti" with its blend of spirituality and earthiness.
When Odysseus Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy's citation singled out "The Axion Esti", first published in 1959, as 'one of twentieth-century literature's concentrated and richly faceted poems.'
This new collection from one of Ireland's leading writers is a book of wonderings and wanderings, meditating on cultural boundaries, the persistent horrors of war, lost friends and light.
The poet traces their ancestral legacy over the centuries through the history of 'King Sugar'.
Pattern-book is a collection about grief, time, art, friendship, and the ways that language can and can't hold what we lose.
Kwek's second Carcanet collection excavates histories of displacement, decolonisation, and development buried within Commonwealth, one of Singapore's oldest neighbourhoods.
Passion is a glorious, supercharged collection of poetry focusing on love, nature, and Romany Traveller life.
This first collection from a Caribbean-born writer examines how violence shapes four generations of women and how each generation resists the dysfunction, tyranny, and terror inherited from the previous one.
McAlpine's first Carcanet collection explores themes of marriage, motherhood, and family life, distilling everyday occurrences into moments of self-discovery.
This new Jamaican Dante is as much a transformation as it is translation, by one of the most celebrated Caribbean writers of our time and former Poet Laureate of Jamaica.
The November-December 2024 issue. Since we started as Poetry Nation, a twice yearly hardback, in 1973, we've been publishing new poetry, rediscoveries, commentary, literary essays, interviews and reviews from around the globe. This issue includes the first translation of Dante's Inferno by a Jamaican poet (Lorna Goodison); the introduction of the Afghan poet Mahbouba Ibrahimi in translations by Parwana Fayyaz of the Forward Prize; Kirsty Gunn on key New Zealand writers; John McAuliffe on Heaney as translator and letter writer; and a letter from Madrid by Anthony Vahni Capildeo. Our vast archive now includes over 270 issues, with contributions from some of the most important writers of our times. Key contributors include Octavio Paz, Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Patricia Beer, W.S. Graham, Eavan Boland, Jorie Graham, Donald Davie, C.H. Sisson, Sinead Morrissey, Sasha Dugdale, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, and many others.
A bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa's poetry into a mixed dialect of Scots and English by an exciting next-generation, prize-winning Scottish poet.
Jeremy Over's fourth Carcanet collection is an exuberant book of experimental poetry tracking the movements of a happily wandering mind.
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