New Selected Poems
John
Ash
ISBN 9781800175846
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 29th October 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 10th December 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 320pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘John Ash could be the best English poet of his generation.’ PETER CAMPION
POETRY edited by James Womack
• A career-spanning overview of one of the key English poets of the twentieth century
• Builds on Ash’s Selected Poems (1996), which was a summary of the first two stages in his career: his life in Manchester and New York
• In 1996 Ash moved to Istanbul, where his work continued to develop over the next twenty years until his death, from his early hilarious symbolist poems to the delicate historical fantasias of his later years
• This New Selected Poems brings together selections from all of Ash’s published volumes, from Casino (1978) to In the Wake of the Day (2010), and includes substantial fugitive or out-of-print materials
• Reveals the extent and variety of his poetic interests, as well as the consistency of his voice
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
John Ash was born in Manchester in 1948 and read English at the University of Birmingham. He lived for a year in Cyprus, and in Manchester between 1970 and 1985, before moving to New York. In 1996 he moved to Istanbul, where he taught first at Boğaziçi University, and then Kadir Has University. His poetry appeared in many publications. including The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Village Voice, Oasis, PN Review and Paris Review. He was the author of eleven collections of poetry, as well as two books about Turkey, A Byzantine Journey and Turkey: The Other Guide He died in 2019.
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9781800174535
Why Are You Shouting?
James Womack July 2024
£12.99
SALES POINTS
Late Self-Portrait
Dan Burt
ISBN 9781800175907
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 26th November 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th January 2027
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 244pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘I was deeply moved by Every Wrong Direction; it is filled with courage, honesty and grace – and quite a bit of sheer page turning thrill.’
ALAIN DE BOTTON
• In this selection Dan Burt revises and adds to his previously published poetry. It is a book about character, and the contrapuntal power of beauty and thought
• Exposes roots, education, culture and heterosexual passion under the cosh of history and chance
• These poems display the greed, lies, corruption, arrogance and narcissism behind lawyers, businessmen, politicians and generals the author met throughout his time in the US, Europe, and the Middle East
• The poems counterpoint this dystopia with the redemptive power of the sea, art, learning, and women alive and dead whose presences course just below the skin of a now old man
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Burt was born in 1942 in South Philadelphia. He graduated from LaSalle College a Philadelphia working class college, read English at St. John’s College, Cambridge, and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1969. He was a lawyer, businessman, and Honorary Fellow of St. John’s when he began to publish poetry in 2008. Carcanet Press published four books of his poetry and prose (2008 – 2019). Notting Hill Press brought out his brief childhood memoir, You Think It Strange, in the UK (2014), as did Overlook Press in the US (2015). His work has appeared in The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, Commonweal, TLS, Granta, PN Review, Clutag Press, other newspapers, periodicals, and anthologies, and been featured on the BBC. He lives and writes in London, Cambridge, and Schooner Head, Maine.
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9781800171909
Every Wrong Direction: An Emigré’s Memoir Dan Burt
October 2022
£19.99
LIVES AND LETTERS
SALES POINTS
Masqueraders Selected Essays Anthony V. Capildeo
ISBN 9781800175693
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 30th July 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2026
‘Capildeo is among the most original and vital poets writing today. Capildeo’s poetic language is its own creature, a bestiary, fierce and tender, generous and resilient.’
TIFFANY ATKINSON
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 280pp | TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DNL Essays, 5PS LGBTQ+
• Previous poetry collection Polkadot Wounds won the 2025 Scotland National Book Awards, Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry and OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature, from the winner of the Cholmondeley Award and the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection
• This new book by a defining twenty-first century poet brings together a selection of their essays, letters and columns, many of them published in leading poetry journal PN Review
• The essays are an account of the life of a poet, charting Capildeo’s journeys to and experiences of festivals and conferences and commissions, showing how poets live now
• Offers new perspectives on carnival and Trinidad, on translation and plurilingualism, on history, relics and mourning, always inflected by their unique attention to marginal voices and dialogue while engaging with contemporary politics
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony V. Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Their numerous books and pamphlets are distinguished by deliberate engagement with independent and small presses. Their work has been recognized with the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors) and the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Recent commissions include research-based Windrush poems for Poet in the City and for the Royal Society of Literature. Capildeo served as a judge for the Jhalak Prize (2023). They live in Edinburgh.
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9781800174252
Polkadot Wounds
Anthony V. Capildeo July 2024
£12.99
SALES POINTS
Before Violence
Joe Carrick-Varty
ISBN 9781800175426
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th March 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th May 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 168pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland
A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SPRING RECOMMENDATION 2026
‘More Sky is a tour-de-force of image and figurative language.’
POETRY LONDON
• Before Violence is an outstanding second collection from Joe Carrick-Varty, whose first won an Eric Gregory Award, was longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize
• This new book is formally bold and unusual: comprised of three gripping and compelling long poems, it carries the reader along with it in away which is highly unusual, unflinchingly looking at inheritance, pain and memory
• The book reflects further on growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father, a key subject of More Sky, and now part of the poems’ reflections on their own patterns and how that past shapes future lives
• His friend and fellow editor of the influential journal bath magg, Gboyega Odubango, is the subject of the last of the book’s three long poems, the profoundly moving ‘Late from the Water’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe Carrick-Varty is a British-Irish poet, writer and founding editor of bath magg. He is the author of two pamphlets of poetry: Somewhere Far (The Poetry Business, 2019) and 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father (OutSpoken Press, 2020). His work has appeared in the New Statesman, The Poetry Review and Poetry London. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2022. More Sky, his debut collection, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023, longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025, and was a The Irish Times Book of the Year.
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9781800173019
More Sky
Joe Carrick-Varty
January 2023
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Collected Prose
Paul Celan
ISBN 9781800175402
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th February 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp
TERRITORIES World excluding USA & Canada
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
THEMA CODES DNL Essays, NHWR7 Second World War
• Paul Celan is widely regarded as one of the greatest post-war European poets; his Collected Prose (originally published in 1993) is reissued as a Carcanet Classic
• Celan’s painful struggle with the possibilities and limitations of German, his native language, has helped to define the response of poetry in the aftermath of the Holocaust – known for his pronouncement that, after Auschwitz, only language ‘remained secure against such loss’
• A spare and reluctant prose writer, Celan explores the condition of being a stranger in the world while speaking with a quiet authority that insists on the centrality of poetry in modern life
• Waldrop’s translation remains true to the poetic rhythms of Celan’s prose, and her introduction contextualises the pieces
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
Paul Celan (1920–1970) was born Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in Bukovina, a German enclave in Romania which was destroyed by the Nazis. His parents were taken to a concentration camp in 1942, and did not return; Celan managed to escape deportation and to survive. After settling in Paris in 1948, he gained widespread recognition as a poet with the publication of his first collection of poems in German in 1952. His earliest poems were written in Romanian and have been translated by, among others, his friend Nina Cassian. In 1958 Celan was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize, and in 1960 the Georg Büchner Prize. He committed suicide in Paris in April 1970.
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9781784105983
Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry
Nelly Sachs
tr. Andrew Shanks
September 2023
£30.00
SALES POINTS
Impossible Paradise Selected Poems
Chen Yuhong
ISBN 9781800175365
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th February 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th April 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 152pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1FPCW Taiwan
translated
&
edited by George O’Connell & Diana Shi
• A Selected Poems introducing this award-winning Taiwanese poet in English for the first time
• Leading translator of modern and classical poetry including the works of Louise Glück, Alice Oswald and Carol Ann Duffy
• Chen Yuhong’s vision blends Eastern and Western sensibilities (ancient and contemporary) in a brilliant tapestry
• Themes of love, sensuality, the music of time, animal presences, tides of seasons
• Translated into English by the founders of the international poetry journal Pangolin House, who for twenty years have been bringing into English prominent western and Chinese-speaking poets
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chen Yuhong was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and graduated from the Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages. After a decade in Canada, she returned to Taiwan, settling in Taipei. For her 2004 collection Annotations, the editors of the annual Best Poetry of Taiwan named her Poet of the Year. Her collection Bewitched (2007) received Taiwan’s Chinese Writers & Artists Association’s Poetry Award. Her most recent poetry collection, Half-light, appeared in 2022 for which the Swedish Institute awarded Chen its International Cikada Prize in poetry.
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9781800172128
In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century Wong May January 2022
£19.99
SALES POINTS
Mist Becoming Rain Selected Poems
Austin Clarke
ISBN 9781800175570
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th August 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th October 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TD-IE-A Ireland
John McAuliffe
‘Outstanding…Austin Clarke is a massive presence. He is a master craftsman whose Collected Poems brings his work before us in all its range and variety, its strength and humanity.’
THE IRISH TIMES edited by
• A new selection of work by Austin Clarke, one of the most significant poets of twentieth century Ireland – as important as Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella or Seamus Heaney
• Some of his short lyrics remain among the best-loved poems in Ireland
• His translations from the Irish, and his use of Irish-language metres and forms, remain influential to this day
• He suffered as a writer from censorship, and his critique of the Catholic state emerged in piercing, clear narrative and satirical poems
• He is a poet of ‘other voices’, whose poems travel in place and time, and reclaim lost voices for his readers
• Launch event TBC in Dublin
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
Austin Clarke (1896-1974), playwright and leading Irish poet of the generation after Yeats, was educated at University College Dublin. He worked in England as a journalist, returning to Dublin in 1937. The Vengeance of Fionn, the first of eighteen books of verse, appeared in 1917; his Collected Poems in the year of his death. He promoted verse drama through the Dublin Verse-Speaking Society which he formed in 1941. His first novel, The Bright Temptation (1932), was banned in Ireland until 1954.
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9781857548259
Collected Poems
Austin Clarke
November 2008
£30.00
SALES POINTS
New and Selected Poems Henri Coulette
ISBN 9781800175525
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th April 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 25th June 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 162pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TK-US-A USA
edited by Michael Caines & Boris Dralyuk
• This new selection of work (the first in over three decades) includes previously unpublished material and reveals the beguiling style and technical ingenuity of one of American poetry’s bestkept secrets
• Introduction full of previously unpublished biographical information, a mystery resolved
• With a brilliant command of poetry’s formal resources, his subject matter ranges from film noir and espionage, to life’s little ironies and larger tragedies
• Famed poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert felt that to read Coulette was to be ‘in the presence of a major poet’, and one who had ‘seized upon thematic material of central importance to the modern world’
• Deeply admired by fellow poets such as Thom Gunn and Donald Justice
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
Henri Coulette (1927-1988), who spent most of his life in Los Angeles, was regarded as a master craftsman and a quiet original by his teachers Robert Lowell and John Berryman, his peers Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass, Thom Gunn, and Philip Levine, and his students Wanda Coleman, Michael Harper, and Luis Omar Salinas. His first volume, The War of the Secret Agents and Other Poems (1966), won the Lamont Poetry Prize and received significant praise, but his second, The Family Goldschmitt (1971), was accidentally pulped by the distributor. A third volume only saw publication as part of his Collected Poems (1990), now long out of print.
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9781800173378
The Miraculous Season:
Selected Poems
V.R. ‘Bunny’ Lang
ed. Rosa Campbell
February 2024
£16.99
SALES POINTS
Pier 52
Jane Duran
ISBN 9781800175921
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th July 2026
‘Her poems are voyages of discovery. Literally. Over and over she writes about the journeys, physical and metaphysical, that are transformative experiences’ POETRY REVIEW
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
• Duran’s second Carcanet collection offers a response to and development of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s aesthetic, inspired by seeing the interdependence of disruption and invention
• In the summer of 1975, Matta-Clark broke into Pier 52, an abandoned warehouse on the Hudson River. Using hand-held tools he exposed the river below and cut into the walls and roof to allow movement and light into the space (Project: Day’s Passing, and then Day’s End)
• The book revisits 1970s Manhattan and in a late sequence the closed spaces of Palestine now, paying attention to disruption and border-crossings
• Duran is interested in preserving, recycling and transforming, and the way removal can alter our perception of a whole structure, animating new vistas and aesthetics
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Selections of her poems have appeared in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber 1993), Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997), and Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe 2005). In 1995 Enitharmon published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published 4 subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005. Her first Carcanet collection, the clarity of distant things, was published in September 2021.
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9781800171596
the clarity of distant things
Jane Duran September 2021
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Drunken Driving Martina Evans
ISBN 9781800175631
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 25th June 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th August 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland
THE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY SUMMMER CHOICE 2026
‘Evans is that rarest of rara avis, a poet whose work is at once serious and authentically enjoyable’
THE IRISH TIMES
• A sequel to Martina’s highly acclaimed The Coming Thing (2023), this narrative poem continues the story of Imelda ten years on within the walls of Pentonville Prison
• Imelda, now a young mother and a visiting radiographer to the prison hospital, struggles with questions of life and death, crime and punishment: How can one control a car with confidence? Are drunken drivers ordinary criminals? Are ordinary lives a series of escape attempts?
• A funny, subversive book that plays with the trope of the Victorian Gothic novel (each poem is bookended by quotes from Dracula and from Rules of Road or the prison security booklet)
• A timely book that provides comedy as it raises more serious questions about human society, and during the present international prison crisis when the UK prison system is on the verge of collapse
• Launch events TBC in London (Irish Embassy) and Dublin
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Martina Evans was born in Cork and lives in London. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. American Mules (Carcanet 2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize and The Coming Thing (Carcanet 2023) was a TLS Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry as well as the PEN /Heaney Prize. She is poetry critic for the Irish Times and a Fellow of Royal Society of Literature.
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9781800173453
The Coming Thing
Martina Evans September 2023
£12.99
CARCANET
SALES POINTS
My Father the Dog Andrew Fitzsimons
ISBN 9781800175747
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th August 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th October 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1FPJ Japan
‘These poems are really stunning: shafts of truth, beautifully crafted.’
BERNARD O’DONOGHUE ON WHAT THE SKY ARRANGES
• Debut Carcanet collection by a celebrated translator of Bashō, who now turns his hand to composing original English-language haiku concerning the brutal murders that took place in an isolated mountain village in Japan not so long ago
• A haunting poem of Japan, emerging out of Japanese experience and poetic tradition
• A man returns to his village after twenty years workng in the city. After burying his parents, arguments with his neighbours result in him pasting a threatening haiku to a shed window and getting two dogs. Over time he begins to think one of the dogs is his father reincarnated
• Split into three sections, echoing a haiku’s three lines: ‘Before’, memories of childhood and his troubled homecoming; ‘After’, voices of the aftermath of the murders; and ‘Now’, the fugitive naked on a forest hill, awaiting capture, seeing things
• Film adaptation of the book by Irish director Alan Gilsenan already in progress
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Fitzsimons was born in Dublin, and is a poet, translator and academic. He has published three volumes of poetry, What the Sky Arranges (2013), A Fire in the Head (2014), and The Sunken Keep (2017), all from Isobar Press. His translation Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō was published by the University of California Press in 2022, and received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Work of Literary Translation (Honorable Mention) from the MLA in 2023. His study of Thomas Kinsella, The Sea of Disappointment, was published by UCD Press (2008), and he edited Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006 (Carcanet, 2009). He is a Professor of English at Gakushuin University, Tokyo.
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9781800175365
Impossible Paradise: Selected Poems
Chen Yuhong
February 2026
£14.99
SALES POINTS
Selected Poems Leontia Flynn
ISBN 9781800175501
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th April 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 25th June 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 134pp
TERRITORIES World
‘One of the most accomplished poets of her generation’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Everyone should be reading her’ THE OBSERVER
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TD-IE-A Ireland
• A Selected Poems from one of the most accomplished and highly acclaimed Irish poets of her generation, winner of the Forward Prize, Irish Times Poetry Now Award, Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Literature, and Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
• Includes work from her five collections published with Jonathan Cape
• Influenced by Philip Larkin, Flynn examines the scaffold of a life with dark humour and tender attention
• Includes poems about motherhood (being a single mother in Belfast), set against a background of seemingly continuous crisis
• Her attention ranges across all aspects of modern life, with particular attention to Northern Ireland and its history
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leontia Flynn was born in County Down and has published several full-length collections of poetry, including These Days (2004), which won the Forward Prize for best first collection, The Radio (2017), which won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, and her most recent, Taking Liberties (2023). Her other awards include an Eric Gregory Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Literature, and the AWB Vincent Literary Award, and she has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Flynn lives in Belfast and is Reader in Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast. She was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
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9781784109318
Found Architecture: Selected Poems Sinéad Morrissey April 2020 £14.99
SALES POINTS
My Destination Daisy Fried
ISBN 9781800175785
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 100pp
‘Passionate, nervy (as in ‘you’ve got a lot of…’), telegraphic, indecorous, chewy, sharply observed and smart’ AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. AU, CA, NZ
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TK-US-A USA
• Fried’s fifth book is full of delight, grief, and confrontation as it explores renewal amid great loss
• Fried’s elbows are always out, her gaze unaverted as she presents furious poems laced with riddles; prose poems set in laundromats and zoos; meditations on the ashes of a beloved; mother-daughter standoffs; poems containing boxing matches; and everywhere the female gaze
• Her vision is bifocal – always has her eye on the domestic and the public, on the personal and the political
• Wide-ranging in subject and tone, these poems are sophisticated, indecorous, unsentimental and sharp
• A collection for fans of Hannah Sullivan and any other poet who understands the humour and the pity in everyday things
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daisy Fried is the author of five books of poetry: My Destination, The Year the City Emptied, Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, and She Didn’t Mean to Do It. The recipient of Guggenheim, Hodder, and Pew Fellowships for her poetry, she is a poetry critic and a member of the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in San Francisco.
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9781800174771
Small Pinted Things
Erica McAlpine
April 2025
£11.99
SALES POINTS
The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber Jay Gao
ISBN 9781800175327
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th August 2026
SIZE 135 x 216mm, 98pp
A prodigiously assured new voice.’
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5PS LGBTQIA+, WN Nature
• Debut Imperium won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023, a Somerset Maugham Award, an Eric Gregory Award, and was longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award
• This second collection is an ambitious book-length poem on ecopoetics – a radical fantasy for trees, forests and wood, presenting a visionary rewiring between nature and language
• Inspired by the haunting of trees in medieval poems and dream-visions: if trees acted as portals into a dream-world in certain medieval poems, then what does it mean to be surrounded by the presence of trees, wood, and paper in our day-to-day lives?
• Tackles the legacy of colonial land extraction, the urgency of climate crises, invasive and migrating species, as well as queer desire and intimacy
• A formally experimental epic consisting of leaf-like fragments and long branched lines that stretch across the page
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jay Gao is a poet from Edinburgh, Scotland, living in New York City. His debut poetry collection Imperium (Carcanet, 2022) was a winner of the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. He is also the author of five poetry chapbooks and pamphlets. Currently, he reads for Poetry magazine and is a PhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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Imperium
Jay Gao
August 2022
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Killing Spree
Jorie Graham
ISBN 9781800175549
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 28th May 2026
SIZE 235 x 187mm, 96pp
‘A
mesmerising American voice; one wants to hear its continuation’
THE NEW YORKER
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TK-US-A USA
• New collection from Jorie Graham, one of the most celebrated living American poets (winner of the Forward Prize 2012 and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1996)
• Tackles the conditions of the world around us, with particular focus on violence across the globe and the destruction in Gaza
• Graham has been politically engaged since the Paris student demonstrations of the late 1960s (in which she participated), the climate crisis (the core of her recent books, including [To] the Last [Be] Human (2022) with a preface by Robert Macfarlane), and now the situation in Gaza
• A poetry against numbness, insisting on the need to understand, respond to and act upon political reality
• Teaches at Harvard, where she is the Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric emerita
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jorie Graham was born in New York City in 1950. She was raised in Rome and educated in French schools. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before attending New York University as an undergraduate, where she studied filmmaking. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Never (2002), Swarm (2000), The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Runaway (2020), [To] the Last [Be] Human (2022), and most recently To 2040 (2023), which won the 2023 Laurel Prize and was longlisted for the 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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9781800173163 To 2040
Jorie Graham April 2023
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SALES POINTS
Work Experience New Poems and Two Plays
Sophie Hannah
ISBN 9781800175556
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £15.99
PUBLICATION DATE 28th May 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th July 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 326pp
TERRITORIES World | THEMA CODES DCF
‘Sophie Hannah is a genius’ THE POETRY REVIEW
• New poetry collection from the award-winning, bestselling crime writer and author of the new Hercule Poirot novels authorised by the Agatha Christie estate
• This collection combines maverick, irreverent poems that rhyme and scan and will make you laugh with the librettos – play scripts, including song lyrics – of Sophie’s two musicals, The Mystery of Mr E (now a feature film) and Work Experience
• The plays contain biting social satire and a strong critique of the way society treats children and teenagers, as well as the way we relate to work and the need to earn money
• Her poetry is studied at GCSE, A Level and degree level across the UK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle UK No. 1 bestselling writer of crime fiction and poetry, published in forty-nine languages and fifty-one territories. Her books have sold millions of copies worldwide. Her murder mystery musical, The Mystery of Mr E, was released as a feature film in 2023, directed by Martyn Tott. In 2023, Sophie won the Crime Writers Association’s Dagger in the Library Award for her body of work, and in 2013 her thriller The Carrier won the Crime Thriller of the Year Award at the National Book Awards. Sophie’s poetry has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award. She lives with her husband, children and dog in Cambridge, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.
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9781784100254
Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems
Sophie Hannah May 2015
£12.99
SALES POINTS
The Natural Way Roma Havers
ISBN 9781800175464
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th February 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th April 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5PS LGBTQ+
WINNER OF THE NORTHERN WRITERS’ AWARD FOR POETRY 2024
‘joyful, communal and tender’ I LOVE MANCHESTER ON LOB
• Debut collection from Manchester-based poet, winner of the Northern Writers’ Award for Poetry
• Explores queer approaches to thinking about everything from legacy to meteorology and the future
• From Oscar Wilde to an unlikely pelican, it resists the traditional nature poem, instead digging into the muck and rock of queer wilderness
• Havers also writes for performance, with work touring across the UK and shortlisted for the Bruntwood Prize
• Ingenious and funny, Havers’ debut questions received ideas about inheritance and legacies: what if, it asks, we live outside the familiar, familial archive?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Roma Havers is a queer poet, theatre-maker and unsolicited go-go dancer – from your hometown but living in Manchester with their partner, allotment and every stone they’ve ever pocketed. They have been published in Ink Sweat and Tears, Verve Poetry Prize (Shortlisted), The North and Under the Radar. Alongside their poetry work, they have produced writer development programmes, mentored many poets and produced work for performance including their show LOB, which toured the North West and Belfast in 2022, with their play Helmet with Laughter Lines being longlisted for the Bruntwood Playwriting prize the same year.
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9781800174917
The Idea of an Entire Life
Billy-Ray Belcourt September 2025
£12.99
SALES POINTS
The Reverse Side of the Tapestry Alberto Manguel
ISBN 9781800175808
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th November 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp (illustrated)
TERRITORIES World
‘the Casanova of reading’ GEORGE STEINER, THE NEW YORKER
THEMA CODES DNL Essays, DSC Literary Studies
• Manguel is the former Director of the National Library of Argentina and one of the world’s best-loved advocates for reading. He donated his personal library (40k+ titles) to the city of Lisbon, and it has become a coveted haven for other writers from all across the globe
• Author of the highly acclaimed A History of Reading (HarperCollins, 1997)
• Manguel has been a translator of many great writers – Borges (to whom he read books aloud when Borges lost his sight) and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into Spanish
• This new book is the perfect title to celebrate the UK’s 2026 National Year of Reading campaign
• An often humorous book-length meditation on the art of literary translation which, to Manguel’s mind, is the keenest form of reading
• Features original illustrations by Manguel himself
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina. He lives in Lisbon, Portugal.
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9781800174375
Library Lives
Stella Halkyard
Foreword by Alberto Manguel
September 2024
Hardback
£25.00
SALES POINTS
Lyrical Ballads
Bill Manhire
ISBN 9781800175440
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th March 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th May 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 136pp
TERRITORIES World excluding AU & NZ
‘unquestionably worldclass. As with Seamus Heaney, you get a sense of someone with a steady hand on the tiller, and both the will and the craft to take your breath away’
BOSTON GLOBE
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1MBN New Zealand
• New collection from New Zealand’s inaugural Poet Laureate and five-time winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
• Previous collection Wow received a PBS Recommendation and was a White Review Book of the Year
• A master of gentle humour, surprise and delight, Manhire’s work is easily accessible: elegant, literary and witty but never pretentious or difficult
• This new collection explores the collisions between wonder and reality, childhood vulnerability and ageing, hilarity and heartbreak
• Anchored by two long sequences that embrace awkwardness, mystery and absurdity: ‘The Tobacco Tin’, a kind of folk story, and ‘Tell You What’, a set of wryly curmudgeonly opinions that evoke the prejudices of a fast-vanishing world
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bill Manhire’s most recent books include Wow (2020), Some Things to Place in a Coffin (2017), Tell Me My Name (with Hannah Griffin and Norman Meehan, 2017) and The Stories of Bill Manhire (2015). He has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry five times, and was New Zealand’s inaugural poet laureate. He founded and directed the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. He has edited major anthologies of New Zealand literature, including, with Marion McLeod, the now classic Some Other Country: New Zealand’s Best Short Stories (1984). In 2018 Manhire was awarded an Icon Award Whakamana Hiranga from the Arts Foundation.
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Wow
Bill Manhire
October 2020
£10.99
SALES POINTS
Red River Valley Ian McMillan
ISBN 9781800175860
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th October 2026
‘It’s impossible not to like McMillan. If they made him Poet Laureate on Friday, a lot more people would be reading poetry by Monday’ THE GUARDIAN
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 10th December 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘World-class - one of today’s greatest poetry performers’
CAROL ANN DUFFY
• The new collection from one of Britain’s most treasured living poets (the ‘Bard of Barnsley’) and celebrated host of BBC Radio 4’s The Verb
• In Red River Valley, McMillan makes poems from family life, everyday surrealism, and the effect of austerity on the village near Barnsley where he’s lived all his life
• After all these years, he’s still trying to find his voice; maybe it’s here in Red River Valley, his dad’s favourite song
• Language is the playground and form is the rewritten rule book in work that sits on the page and in the ear
• McMillan has a large social media following and is known for being a highly entertaining performer of his own work
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ian McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1956. He published his first Carcanet book of poems, The Changing Problem, in 1980. His Selected Poems (a Poetry Book Society Recommendation) has gone through several printings, and I Found this Shirt is now in its third printing. He has become famous for his work in schools and on radio where he is the celebrated host of Radio 4’s The Verb
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To Fold the Evening Star: New and Selected Poems Ian McMillan
April 2016
£14.99
SALES POINTS
A Wild Goose Chase
Andrew McNeillie
ISBN 9781800175099
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th January 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th March 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 120pp
TERRITORIES World
‘one of Wales’s leading modern poets, and his work ranks alongside that of Gwyneth Lewis, Robert Minhinnick, Gillan Clarke and Dannie Abse’ POETRY WALES
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDU-GB-W Wales
• New collection from the Welsh Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, nature writer and editor of the eco-literature magazine Archipelago
• These poems explore the author’s deep sense, in his older age, of not belonging anywhere, other than in mind and in the wild
• His mind ranges from the earliest (4th centry BC) accounts of Britain to the present day, blurring temporal and spatial boundaries while alive to the impacts of climate change
• Includes a sequence opening in the Bodleian Library where the poet compares his memories of Wales with those of Thomas Pennant
• Exhibits the author’s characteristic humour, gift for word-play, and technical expertise
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew McNeillie was born in 1946 in North Wales and brought up there, a son of the Scottish writer Ian Niall. After an unconventional start, he read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, before becoming a publisher and editor. For a key period in his life, he was literature editor at Oxford University Press. He is the founding editor of the magazine Archipelago (2007-) and runs the Clutag Press (now in its twenty-sixth year). His memoir An Aran Keening was published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin, in 2001 and reissued in 2025. Once: A Memoir came out from Seren in 2009. Striking a Match in a Storm: New & Collected Poems was published by Carcanet in 2022. A prequel to his Aran memoir, News of the World: from Rhydamman to Inishmore appeared from Lilliput in 2025.
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Striking a Match in a Storm: New and Collected Poems
Andrew McNeillie March 2022
£18.99
LIVES AND
SALES POINTS
101 Letters Christopher Middleton
ISBN 9781800175679
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 30th July 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 320pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DND Letters
‘Poems, translations, essays - Christopher Middleton’s are among the most visited books on my shelves; always dependable for reexciting the possibilities of language.’
JENNIE FELDMAN edited by John Clegg
• August Kleinzahler wrote, ‘Christopher Middleton is, and remains, a shocking man. One hardly knows where to begin...’
• This selection of Middleton’s letters offers a new beginning point for readers of this dazzling, many-talented writer - Oxford-educated, an academic and he served in the RAF
• The first letter here dates from 1936, the last from 2015, and this selection charts a life lived to the full as the poet reports on his work, his writing life and his continuous transatlantic engagement with the poets and critics of his generation
• Poet and bookseller John Clegg offers an introductory essay which makes the case for Middleton’s importance and chooses from a wide range of correspondents, family and friends, critics and fellow poets, including Al Alvarez, Tom Raworth, Guy Davenport, Jennie Feldman, Marius Kociejowski and Geoffrey Hill
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) was born in Truro, Cornwall. He studied at Merton College, Oxford, before teaching at the University of Zurich, at King’s College, London, and as Professor of Germanic Languages at the University of Texas, Austin. He has published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Holderlin, Goethe, Gert Hofmann and many others. Carcanet have published his poetry, prose and translations since 1975. His books include Selected Writings (1989), Faint Harps and Silver Voices: Translations (2000), The Word Pavilion (2001), Collected Poems (2008) and Collected Later Poems (2014).
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Collected Later Poems
Christopher Middleton January 2014
£25.00
SALES POINTS
Alcatraz Poems from the Contemporary Welsh Robert Minhinnick
ISBN 9781800175037
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £15.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th April 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 25th June 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 164pp | TERRITORIES World
‘one of the most important poets of these turbulent times’
CAROL ANN DUFFY
THEMA CODES DCQ Poetry Anthology, 1DDU-GB-W Wales
• Featuring poetry by Menna Elfyn, Llyr Gwyn, Iwan Llwyd, Sian Northey, Karen Owen, and Iestyn Tyne, all translated by the leading Welsh poet Robert Minhinnick
• Previous collection, Diary of the Last Man, was the 2018 Wales Book of the Year, winner of the 2018 Roland Mathias Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize
• This dual-language collection indicates the vibrant poetry scene in the Welsh language at a time of extraordinary pressure on the very existence of that language
• Explores cultural concerns ranging from space exploration to warfare and offers unique perspectives on immigration and ‘cultural suffocation’
• These poems range from bitterly elegiac to tenderly humane, from memories of Soho and the USA to the ever-changing Welsh coastline
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 and lives in Porthcawl. He is a poet, novelist, essayist and critic. An established environmentalist, he is joint founder of Friends of the Earth Cymru, and the charity Sustainable Wales which was founded in 1997, for which he is a special advisor. His poems have twice won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and his essays have twice won Wales Book of the Year. His previous Carcanet collection, Diary of the Last Man, was published in 2017 alongside a film of the same by Park6 Productions.
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9781784103484
Diary of the Last Man
Robert Minhinnick April 2017
£9.99
SALES POINTS
Among Communists: A Memoir Sinéad
Morrissey
ISBN 9781800174061
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £16.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th March 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th May 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 304pp
TERRITORIES World
‘The outstanding poet of her generation’ THE INDEPENDENT
THEMA CODES DNC Memoir, 1DDU-GB-N Northern Ireland
• The first Communist memoir from Northern Ireland, set against a backdrop of the vanished culture of Belfast Communism, from the winner of the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes
• Posits a history of the Northern Irish conflict unlike any other while also charting this awardwinning writer’s journey into poetry
• Explores the collapse of the nuclear family that served as Morrissey’s political and emotional crucible, mirroring the fall of the Berlin Wall
• A lyrical exploration of familial love, belief, contrariness and loss, and of the galvanising power of sudden endings to make and re-make the past
• Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University; launch events TBC in Belfast and Newcastle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sinéad Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. She has published six collections with Carcanet as well as a selected poems, Found Architecture (2020). Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007), First Prize in the UK National Poetry Competition (2007), the Irish Times Award (2009, 2013) and the T.S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection, Parallax, in 2013. In 2016 she received the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest collection, On Balance (2017) was awarded the Forward Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. In 2020 Sinéad Morrissey was named the European Poet of Freedom by the City of Gdańsk, Poland and in 2024 she was the recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award (Japan). She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Found Architecture: Selected Poems Sinéad Morrissey April 2020 £14.99
SALES POINTS
Landscape with Question
Leeanne Quinn
ISBN 9781800175617
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 25th June 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th August 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TD-IE-A Ireland
‘a beautifully orchestrated collection’
NIALL MACMONAGLE ON SOME LIVES
• This new collection from the award-winning Irish poet Leeanne Quinn presents a panEuropean meditation on human geography and landscape that moves from Ireland’s coastal landscapes to the River Danube in Vienna, Austria
• An intricately patterned quest narrative in which a nomadic speaker documents their journey through a series of landscapes that resist straightforward delineations
• A collection about reading and finding meaning through the act of reading. A book that sees poetry as question and as quest
• The first creative study to extensively engage with the life and work of one of Ireland’s leading Modernist artists, Nano Reid (the temporal and geographic layers of her paintings)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leeanne Quinn’s debut collection of poetry, Before You (Dedalus Press, 2012), was highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013. Her second collection, Some Lives (Dedalus Press, 2020), was noted as a Book of the Year by The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. She co-edited Romance Options: Love Poems for Today (Dedalus Press, 2022) and is the editor of Beginnings Over and Over: Four New Poets from Ireland (Dedalus Press, 2025). She holds a PhD in American Literature from Trinity College Dublin, and has taught contemporary poetry at LMU Munich, Germany. Originally from Drogheda and Monasterboice, Co. Louth, she has lived in Germany, Austria, and is now based in Limerick, Ireland.
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9781800173859 that which appears Thomas A Clark April 2024
£19.99
SALES POINTS
The Matter Padraig Regan
ISBN 9781800175822
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th November 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp
TERRITORIES World
‘To look up from Padraig Regan’s words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world’
ANTHONY V. CAPILDEO
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 5TD-IE-A Ireland, 5PS LGBTQ+
• Debut Some Integrity received the Clarissa Luard Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry; it was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and John Pollard Prize; it was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and Michael Murphy Memorial Prize
• This second collection deepens the ekphrastic concerns of their debut, directing their gaze towards naturally occurring objects and tackling ideas of embodiment, alterity, queerness and ecology
• Witnessing the things that make up the world and attempting to render them in language
• Divided into three parts of lyrical abundance – Animal, Mineral and Vegetable – the parts are linked by their attempts imaginatively to encounter the non-human, and offer new foils for this poet’s reflections on mortality and desire
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Padraig Regan is the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. They were a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge from 2022 to 2024. Their debut collection, Some Integrity, was published by Carcanet in 2022.
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9781800172081
Some Integrity
Padraig Regan
January 2022
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Dirt Rich Graeme Richardson
ISBN 9781800175341
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th January 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th March 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘His poems are affectingly frank and lyrical, by turns harrowing and humourous, and refreshingly varied in form and structuree’ WILD COURT
• The first collection from a former Parish Priest and Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times
• Richardson’s poetry is rooted in religion but grounded and earthy – frank and humorous about sex, desire, and the joys and griefs of fatherhood
• Explores the poet’s past, from a childhood in the Nottinghamshire coalfield, to the “hatch/ match/dispatch” duties of a Church of England priest, to work in an Archaeology Department in Germany
• Unpretentious, accessible poetry in the tradition of Philip Larkin and The Movement
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Graeme Richardson grew up in Nottinghamshire, and now lives and works in Germany. A former Chaplain and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, he has also served as a Parish Priest in Hertfordshire and Birmingham. Over the last twenty years, his writing has featured in various publications including the Guardian and the Times, and he has been a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement since 2010. A first pamphlet, Hang Time, was published in 2006 from Landfill Press; his second pamphlet, Last of the Coalmine Choirboys came out in 2024 from New Walk Editions. Since 2022 he has also been the Poetry Critic of the Sunday Times
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9781800175242
Jonah and Me
John F. Deane
December 2025
£12.99
SALES POINTS
Do I Look Like an Atmosphere? Zoë Skoulding
ISBN 9781800175389
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th February 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th April 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDU-GB-W Wales
‘poetry to go back to time and time again’
IAN BRINTON, TEARS IN THE FENCE
• Leading eco-poet, inventing new forms that evoke the natural world vulnerable to human actions
• Title develops a line in the 1938 film Hôtel du Nord, about a doomed romance, reflecting eco relations
• Close attention to landscape – forests, coast lines, the Welsh rainforest
• Develops troubadour and medieval Welsh motifs from a technologized present (including AI); sequences addressed to Arnaut Daniel and Dafydd ap Gwilym
• Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, Skoulding’s previous Carcanet collection shortlisted for the Wales Poetry Book of the Year Award
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Zoë Skoulding’s six previous collections of poems include A Marginal Sea (Carcanet, 2022), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, following most recently by A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman, 2020) and Footnotes to Water (Seren, 2019), which won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award. She is co-editor, with Katherine M. Hedeen, of Poetry’s Geographies: A Transatlantic Anthology of Translations (Shearsman, 2022), and her critical publications have explored poetry’s relationships with place, listening, translation and ecology. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, and lives on Ynys Môn / Anglesey.
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9781800172517
A Marginal Sea
Zoë Skoulding
October 2022
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Songs of Experience eds. John McAuliffe & Michael Schmidt
ISBN 9781800175884
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 29th October 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 10th December 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 280pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCQ Poetry anthologies
• Brings together the work of a generation of poets never published together (and never has there been a generation still writing and publishing in their 70s, 80s and 90s)
• Carcanet has been publishing some of these poets since the early 1970s, while others are either late starters or more recent arrivals on the list
• All contributors are still writing and publishing new work, and this book offers both a kind of reckoning and a jumping-off point for a consideration of what is an unprecedented generation
• This book includes selections from their back catalogue by some of the defining poets of the past half-century, as well as new work and reflective essays on late style, fresh starts and their changing sense of creativity and calling
• Contributors include Gillian Clarke, Lorna Goodison, Rowan Williams, Bill Manhire, Jenny Lewis, Marilyn Hacker, Mimi Khalvati, Thomas A Clark, Jeffrey Wainwright and many others
ABOUT THE EDITORS
McAuliffe and Schmidt are experienced editors who have seen, in their work at Carcanet and the journal PN Review, the increasing abundance of work by older poets in recent decades, and the unusual perspectives these experienced poets bring to poetry’s perennial subjects.
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9781800175037
Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh Robert Minhinnick
April 2026
£15.99
SALES POINTS
New and Collected Poems
Jeffrey Wainwright
ISBN 9781800175655
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 25th June 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th August 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 484pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘Jeffrey Wainwright’s work is among the most interesting of any poet now writing’ THE GUARDIAN
• Collecting work from Wainwright’s nine Carcanet collections with new poems, from one of the finest living English poets and author of international bestseller Poetry the Basics (Routledge), now in its fourth edition
• Leading member of the Leeds School of Poets, including Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Jon Silkin
• Includes ecological lyrics, sketching the capacity and limit of human engagement with the world around us, plus secular meditations on mortality and memory
• Poems of place: Italy, his home in Manchester, a return to his native Stoke (following up on previous work shortlisted for the 2017 Arnold Bennett Award in What Must Happen)
• Launch events TBC in Leeds, Manchester and Stoke
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent and educated locally and at the University of Leeds. In 1973 he moved to Manchester Polytechnic, later Manchester Metropolitan University, from where he retired as Professor of English in 2009. In 1984 he was Judith Wilson Fellow at St John’s College Cambridge. Besides poetry he has translated Charles Peguy, Paul Claudel, Pierre Corneille and Bernard-Marie Koltes for the RSC, the BBC and the Actors’ Touring Company. His poem ‘An Empty Street’ (PN Review) was shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. He lives in Manchester and for part of the year in Umbria.
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Carcanet Press, Main Library, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PP
9781800172753
Here on Earth
Jeffrey Wainwright November 2022
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Small Birds Singing Matthew
Welton
ISBN 9781800175594
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 28th May 2026
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th July 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘Welton’s tuning-fork sentences make small things sing with precise beauty’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
• This new collection from the award-winning poet Matthew Welton continues his career-long playful, exploratory poetics and presents a unique approach to contemporary nature writing
• Book-length poem of two-line fragments, drawn from a year’s walking in a city’s green spaces, exploring the months and seasons and nature in urban spaces
• Welton takes us through a world where kitchen radios, coffee cups and bicycle bells lead us to bramble blossom, rubbly clouds and paving slabs overrun with ivy
• Previous book Squid Squad (2020) was a TLS and Telegraph Book of the Year
• Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham
• Launch events TBC in Nottingham, Manchester and London
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Matthew Welton was born in 1969 in Nottingham, where he now lives and teaches at the University. He is the author of four previous books with Carcanet, and a number of pamphlets from smaller presses. His poems take a playful approach to poetic form, and much of his writing has been made in collaboration with composers, artists and other poets.
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For more information please contact Alan Brenik alan@carcanet.co.uk, 0161 834 8730 ext. 203 Carcanet Press, Main Library, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PP
9781784109356
Squid Squad: A Novel
Matthew Welton
April 2020
£10.99
