Slow Puncture Miles Burrows
ISBN 9781800175150
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th November 2025
‘A much travelled poet-doctor, he brings finesse, imagination and a fierce sense of humour to his work, synchronising the arts of comedy, storytelling and verse-making’
CAROL RUMENS
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th January 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 90pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
• New collection by Miles Burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic ‘sketches’ and dramas – comparable to fellow doctor-poet Dannie Abse
• His collected poems, Take us the Little Foxes, was one of the Irish Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2021
• This book is a collection of incidental verse written in England and abroad, concerned with sickness and ageing in a series of sketches somewhere between reality and dream
• Scenes range from a moorland pony stuck in a bog to a shaman performing a ritual ceremony for a deceased’s journey between Heaven and Earth
• Drawing on his experience as a doctor, Burrows explores the doctor-patient interaction in different cultures – endlessly entertaining and deeply relatable
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Miles Burrows was born in Leicester and educated at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he graduated in Classics, Philosophy and Medicine, having studied Russian in National Service. He did his internship at University College London and has practised as a doctor in the United Kingdom, New Guinea and in the Far East. He also worked as a book reviewer for the New Statesman. His first Carcanet collection, Waiting for the Nightingale, was published in 2017 and his collected poems, Take us the Little Foxes, was published in 2021.
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9781800171398
Take us the Little Foxes: Collected Poems
Miles Burrows
August 2021
£14.99
SALES POINTS
thrums Thomas A Clark
ISBN 9781800175204
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th October 2025
‘Clark’s stripped-back poetry is a sensory delight. His terse yet concentrated lines hold a world of feeling’ THE HERALD MAGAZINE
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 11th December 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 118pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDU-GB-S Scotland
• Thrums grows out of Clark’s celebrated collected poems, that which appears, an extension and affirmation
• One of Scotland’s most distinctive writers, a vivid minimalist, ruralist, and experimentalist
• The Threadbare Coat (2020), his selected poems, was a Telegraph Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2021 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021
• This is the last book of its kind that Clark envisages, completing his task of precise transcendence – the landscape at first appears much as before, but material has been added and emphases change
• Some of the new poems have recently featured in the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. Five books of his poetry have been published by Carcanet, including The Hundred Thousand Places (2009), Yellow & Blue (2014), Farm by the Shore (2017), The Threadbare Coat (2020) and that which appears (2024). Numerous small books, cards and editions from his own Moschatel Press investigate ways that the presentation of poetry can inform sense and nuance. During the summer months, with the artist Laurie Clark, he runs Cairn Gallery, a space for minimal and conceptual art.
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ALSO AVAILABLE
9781800173859
that which appears Thomas A Clark
April 2024
£19.99
SALES POINTS
Jonah and Me John F. Deane
ISBN 9781800175242
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 11th December 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th February 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 114pp
TERRITORIES World
‘the work of a profound imagination’ ROWAN WILLIAMS
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland, QRM Christianity
• Follows the publication of his career-spanning New and Selected Poems, which was published on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2023
• Devoutly Catholic, Deane has emerged as one of Ireland’s most important religious poets, and this new book includes a sequence, Of Human Flesh, which takes Easter’s rituals as its occasion and dwells on the ways the spiritual and material worlds come together
• His steadfast faith is captured in a childhood memory of Jonah, with whom he is partnered in what the poem calls a ‘slow, uncomely, cosmic dance’
• The poet’s descriptive and lyric powers are on full display, from a series of stunning landscape poems (particularly of Achill Island) to one memorable sequence tracking a family heirloom, a carriage clock, through three different marriages in 1897, 1906 and 1940
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John F. Deane was born on Achill Island, off the west coast of Ireland. He is the founder of Poetry Ireland – the National Poetry Society – and of The Poetry Ireland Review, in 1978. He is also founder and first editor of The Dedalus Press. He is the recipient of the O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry and the Marten Toonder Award for Literature. He is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council of Ireland to honour artists ‘whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland’. He has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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9781800173590
Selected and New Poems
John F. Deane
November 2023
£16.99
SALES POINTS
Men of the Same Name
Evan
Jones
ISBN 9781800175136
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th October 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 11th December 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
‘an intelligent, allusive poet who has elegantly synthesized his roots in Greek culture’
FIONA SAMPSON
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1QBAG Ancient Greece
• Third Carcanet collection from Greek-Canadian poet, critic, anthologist and translator, Evan Jones
• His Cavafy translations, The Barbarians Arrive Today (2020), was a TLS and Review 31 Book of the Year
• Steeped in Classical and modern history, and relating to politics and today’s wider world, these poems are satirical, elegiac and memorable
• What if, instead of using the ancient world as a metaphor for modern life, the poet use modern life as a metaphor for the ancient Mediterranean world?
• Author has close links with the North West and Canada; teaches at the University of Bolton
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Evan Jones was born in Toronto. A dual citizen of Canada and Greece, he has lived in Britain since 2005. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is co-editor of the anthology Modern Canadian Poets (Carcanet, 2010), and Carcanet also published his British debut collection, Paralogues (2012), Later Emperors (2020), and his translations of Cavafy, The Barbarians Arrive Today (2020).
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9781784109103
Later Emperors
Evan Jones
February 2020
£9.99
SALES POINTS
Answerlands Joseph Minden
ISBN 9781800175174
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th November 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th January 2026
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 118pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry
‘Answerlands gives us Joseph Minden at the top of his inventive power’ JANE DRAYCOTT
• Minden’s second collection is a teacher’s rhapsody, written out of anguish at the state of schools and the pressures of being in them by a working teacher - contributes to the current cultural discussion around schools and our youth as popularised by Netflix’s Adolescence
• Presented in a diaristic structure organised through a dreamlike progression of a school year, he seeks true contact and connection in education
• Tackles themes of the importance of education and working with young people, fairy tales and myth and their connections with dream/waking life
• The title, Answerlands, is taken from a book by the forgotten educational theorist John Holt, describing the place children go in their minds when trying to satisfy their teacher by retrieving a correct answer without really thinking
• Previous collection, Poppy, was a Daily Telegraph Poetry Book of the Year
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph Minden is a poet and schoolteacher. His first collection, Poppy (Carcanet, 2022), was a poetry Book of the Year in The Daily Telegraph and History Today, recommended by the LRB Bookshop, and highly commended in The Forward Prizes.
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Carcanet Press, Main Library, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PP
9781800172715
Poppy
Joseph Minden November 2022
£11.99
SALES POINTS
The Banquet Stav Poleg
ISBN 9781800175112
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th October 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 11th December 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 124pp
TERRITORIES World
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN HEANEY PRIZE
‘Like the best cities, it’s exhilarating: candid, paced, ever-changing and utterly captivating’
FINANCIAL TIMES ON ‘THE CITY’
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, DB Classics, QD Philosophy
• Poleg’s debut collection, The City, was chosen for the Financial Times’ Best Summer Books of 2022 and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection 2023
• This second collection follows Dante’s Purgatorio and Convivio (meaning Banquet) — where the vernacular is the ultimate nourishing force for studying, creating, and finding solace in — to explore the links between language and longing
• These poems move between the worlds of philosophy, theatre and poetry — from Dante’s Florence to Wittgenstein’s Cambridge, exploring how words can reconstruct cities out of memories and dreams
• Meditates on the concept of ethics as explored by Aristotle, Dante, Tom Stoppard and Rimbaud
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stav Poleg’s poetry has appeared on both sides of the Atlantic, in The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review and elsewhere. She was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII (2021) and her graphic-novel installation Dear Penelope: Variations on an August Morning, created with artist Laura Gressani, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Her theatre work was read at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and the Shunt Vaults, London, and most recently at Kettle’s Yard gallery, Cambridge. She serves on the editorial board of Magma Poetry and teaches for the Poetry School.
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9781800172371
The City Stav Poleg
March 2022
£11.99 CARCANET
SALES POINTS
A Letter to the Dead
Collected Poems
Lynette Roberts
ISBN 9781800175051
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £20.00
PUBLICATION DATE 27th November 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th January 2026
edited by Patrick McGuinness
Charles Mundye
‘deserves to be much read and admired as a long poem as important as Basil Bunting’s Briggflatts’
DREW MILNE ON ‘GODS WITH STAINLESS EARS’
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 364pp | TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODES DCF Poetry, 1DDU-GB-W Wales
• This new Collected updates Carcanet’s 2005 edition and adds major work from the archive and will enhance Roberts’ popularity
• Lynette Roberts is now accepted as a canonical Welsh poet, closely associated with Robert Graves – a major late modernist figure, with Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes and other Carcanet classic writers
• Grows out of the life of a woman poet in wartime, and inhabits the mythic and domestic realms
• Completes the map of modern Welsh poetry traced by David Jones, Dyland Thomas, R.S. Thomas
• T.S. Eliot, as editor of Faber and Faber, published her Poems (1944) and Gods with Stainless Ears (1951)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
Lynette Roberts was born of Welsh stock in Buenos Aires in 1909 and died in West Wales in 1995. She published two collections of poems in her lifetime, both from Faber and Faber: Poems (1944) and Gods with Stainless Ears (subtitled ‘A Heroic Poem’, 1951). She married the Welsh writer and editor Keidrych Rhys, and came to know some of the prominent writers and artists of her day. T.S. Eliot was her publisher and advocate. Roberts helped Robert Graves with his work on The White Goddess, and Dylan Thomas was best man at her wedding. She was a friend of Wyndham Lewis (who painted her), Edith Sitwell (to whom she dedicated Gods with Stainless Ears) and Alun Lewis (for whom she wrote ‘Poem from Llanybri’), and published in a variety of magazines in Britain and America.
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9781784105983
Revelation Freshly Erupting: Collected Poetry
Nelly Sachs
September 2023
£30.00
SALES POINTS
Leaning Against Time
Selected Poems & Mary Seacole Libretto SuAndi
ISBN 9781800174993
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £16.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th October 2025
‘SuAndi is the real deal. She tells it like it is’ LINTON KWESI JOHNSON
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 11th December 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 342pp
‘Direct and sassy, wisecracking and poignant, political and opinionated’
TERRITORIES World | THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
• First substantial selection of poems by SuAndi, whose work — as a performer, a writer for stage and an arts curator — has recently been celebrated by her winning the RSL Benson Medal Award
• SuAndi is recognised for her poems’ fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of women’s lives — in Manchester, the city where she grew up — and of Black communities and the lives of those whose voices are not often heard, even now, in contemporary British literature
• She writes for performance rather than the page, and in this selection the rhythms of speech are heard in the text
• Longtime cultural director of the National Black Arts Alliance, she has been an instrumental leader in raising the profile of black artists regionally and nationally
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SuAndi is a writer, poet and arts practitioner born and raised in Manchester. She is the recipient of an OBE, a Doctor of Arts from Manchester Metropolitan University and a Doctor of Letters degree from Lancaster University. Her awards include the Windrush Inspirational Award, Winston Churchill Fellowship, Hope & Inspiration Award for Work Supporting Black History Month, NESTA Dream Time Fellowship, Big Issue in the North Individual Inspirational Award and the MBMEN Lifetime Award. In 2023 SuAndi was the recipient, in her hometown, of the Manchester Culture Special Recognition Award.
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9781800174252
Polkadot Wounds
Anthony Vahni Capildeo
July 2024
£12.99
LAURI RAMEY