The latest collection from the author of Poetry the Basics (Routledge) explores family, mortality and the natural world by delving into memory and dreams.
From one of the editors of Carcanet's anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry (Songs We Learn from Trees, 2020), comes a collections about growing up in a hungry country and wondering how to be happy.
This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.
This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem).
This highly anticipated new collection from a prize-winning Chinese Singaporean writer probes the place of history in our contemporary, border-crossing lives and communities.
After seven centuries, the Divine Comedy reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut Unearthly Toys, Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.
An unflinching, lyrical examination of the intimate conflicts between people, and between the human and the non-human.
In Squid Squad, award-winning poet Matthew Welton takes his first foray into fiction in verse form.
The first UK Selected of one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary poets.
The first Western edition of the poetry of the great anglophone poet of postcolonial India, Srinivas Rayaprol.
A new selection of Jennings' best work set to dazzle familiar readers and introduce her to a new generation
In association with The Wordsworth Trust, this ambitious sonnet sequence focuses on six extraordinary months in 1802, exploring William Wordsworth's life and relationships.
This is the first translation of Spanish poet Manuel Vilas's two major collections Heaven (El cielo, 2000) and Heat (Calor, 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into freewheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy. The poet James Womack has won prizes for his versions of Vilas's work, and of Mayakovsky's.
Fifty Fifty celebrates fifty years of publishing by one of the UK's most distinguished and distinctive independent presses, through correspondence between 50 authors and their editor.
Art of Escape is a wonderful casting off into the complex waters of adult life, in which change has become the constant.
This vital collection restores to print and prominence the work of elusive poet Douglas Crase, best known for his revisionist invocations of the American landscape and transcendentalist tradition
An exploratory anthology of the eclipsed, neglected - and indeed notorious - `Apocalyptic' poetry of the 1940s.
Following on from 2017's celebrated Poems, this is a wide-ranging selection of Bonnefoy's essays on literature, art and life.
Prize-winning Iranian-born poet and celebrated founder of The Poetry School (London) explores her diverse culture in a series of brilliant `oriental sonnets.'
A vivid mix of poetry and memoir, elegy and memory, by a man with a vivid history that touches on the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
Trans woman writer and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann, interrogates the place of faith and myth in a secular world.
Sixth collection by one of Carcanet's celebrated Irish women poets, who include Eavan Boland, Sinead Morrissey, Mary O'Malley, Martina Evans, and Tara Bergin.
A wide ranging anthology of work by contemporary poets from different backgrounds, with accompanying prose commentaries, drawn from the Guardian 'Poem of the Week' blog.
42 lively, funny, moving and erotic poems written in the voice of Picasso's young mistress Marie Therese, with illustrations by Jeff Fisher.
Later Emperors, the second Carcanet collection from Greek-Canadian poet and critic Evan Jones, is a catalogue of ambition and failure: historical figures - emperors, historians, moralists - are brought back to life and consider the world in which we live.
A new and thoroughly revised selection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with an introduction from Rachel Mann.
Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from 'America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with journalist Horace Traubel.
This personal book explores both the public and the private dimensions of forgetting and its scary Siamese twin, remembering.
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