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Award-winning independent publisher of modern/classic/translated poetry & @PN_Review

Manchester

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Carcanet Press

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We’re withdrawing! This platform has increasingly been used to spread misinformation, stoke division and incite violence, and we’d rather carry on our conversation elsewhere. Biggest thanks to our 21k+ followers! Come say hi on Bluesky (carcanet) and Threads (carcanetpress)! 👋🏼

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@Carcanet

Carcanet Press

11 months

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Louise Glück. Our statement is below in the images, and our condolences go out to all whose lives she touched --

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There are just two of us in the office today, so celebrations are necessary... #NobelPrize2020

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It's #InternationalWomensDay ! To celebrate we're giving away 3 bundles of our all-women March books lineup🤩 To enter & win all the books we're publishing this month, like & RT this tweet! Ends next Monday 15th at 12PM - multiple entries allowed across all platforms.

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5 years

We are deeply saddened at the passing of Les Murray, one of our authors and a true friend of Carcanet for well over 30 years

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Les Murray, poet and 'gentle titan of Australian letters', dies aged 80

Australia’s most renowned contemporary poet published close to 30 volumes of work

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Carcanet Press

2 years

📣SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN!📣 The 2023 submission window is now open for everyone until 20th January! We are looking for new poets and are considering work for Carcanet collections, New Poetries and PN Review – full guidelines here:

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4 years

At Glück’s UK publisher Carcanet, which has published the poet for more than two decades, Michael Schmidt said staff were “completely surprised” at the news but also “astonished at the justice of the win”.

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Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature

The Swedish Academy has chosen the American poet, citing her ‘unmistakable poetic voice’

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We're absolutely thrilled that @jallenpaisant has won the T.S. Eliot Prize for his outstanding collection, Self-Portrait as Othello! 🎉 We couldn't be more proud - congratulations from the whole team at Carcanet ⭐ @tseliotprize

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We're thrilled to announce that THREE Carcanet titles have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize! 🎉 Huge congratulations to Jason Allen-Paisant, Joe Carrick-Varty and Kit Fan – it’s fantastic to see Northern talent recognised and celebrated✨

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We are overjoyed to announce that Mimi Khalvati will be awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry! Mimi will be receiving the honour in recognition of her outstanding talent and ability to draw on diverse cultural traditions to enrich British poetry. 🔗

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We are beyond thrilled at this news, and incredibly honoured and humbled to be Louise's UK publisher🎉🙏 A HUGE congratulations to Louise on this well-deserved honour - celebrations are needed!

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The Nobel Prize

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BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” #NobelPrize

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We are saddened to learn that Elaine Feinstein (b. 1930), celebrated writer and Carcanet poet, has passed away peacefully at the age of 88. She was one of Carcanet's dearest and oldest friends, and she will be deeply missed.

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We won Northern Small Press of the Year! 🥳🌞🎊 Thank you so much to @thebookseller , our authors, editors, translators and our team here in Manchester! Also a massive congratulations to @commapress for their commendation - you're all so wonderful! 🌟💝 #Nibbies

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Yippee! Compass are immensely proud to represent @wildthingsbooks WINNER of the first ever British Book Awards Small Press of the Year! And hurrah also for @parthianbooks winners for Wales and @Carcanet winners for the North! And congrats @commapress - highly commended! #Nibbies

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4 years

Publishing powerhouse Michael Schmidt turns 73 today- happy birthday to king Carcanet! 🎂

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1 year

We're thrilled to announce that Some Integrity by @Padraig_Regan has won the Lammy Award for Gay Poetry! The @LambdaLiterary Awards recognise the very best in LGBTQ+ literature. Congratulations Padraig for this fantastic achievement! 🎉🎉

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10 months

We're absolutely thrilled that Self-Portrait as Othello by @jallenpaisant won the Forward Prize for Best Collection! 🎉🎉🎉 Huge congratulations from the whole team at Carcanet ✨ @ForwardPrizes

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We've appointed Irish poet John McAuliffe as Associate Publisher! John will work with Carcanet for 6 months, looking at the press as a whole, the impact of lockdown and contributing to future plans. Read more about this on our website (📸 by Ant Clausen)

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We're over the moon to announce that To 2040 by Jorie Graham has won the 2023 Laurel Prize! 🌿 Huge congratulations from the Carcanet team 🎉🎉 @jorie_graham @laurelprize

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Carcanet Press

4 years

We were so sorry to hear of Eavan Boland’s death. Eavan has been a dear friend to us over the years, and we’re grateful - and honoured - to have worked with her for so long. Today will be spent re-reading her timeless work and celebrating her many achievements.

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We're thrilled to announce that Jay Gao has won the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize for his outstanding debut collection, Imperium! 🎉 Congratulations Jay 🥳 @Jay_Gao_ @EnglishAssoc Read the full announcement:

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Carcanet's next submissions window is now open! For this window, we are accepting Translations only, particularly 20th- and 21st- century poetry and poetry-related material. Read the full guidelines here:

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3 years

Delighted to discover that @SashaDugdale is included in the 2021 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize Shortlist with her incredible collection Deformations! Huge congratulations from all of us at Carcanet 🙌Read about it here and buy the book:

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9 months

'Sea-Fever', the iconic poem by John Masefield 🌊 This month we are publishing Sea-Fever: Selected Poems by John Masefield, edited by Philip Errington.

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4 years

We're beginning today with an announcement 🥁... We're very excited to introduce the next instalment of our bestselling New Poetries anthology, number 8 in the series, coming Jan 2021! Head to our blog to read the list of contributors and find out more:

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3 years

Our submissions window is OPEN! Find out more:

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Huge congratulations to Paul Stephenson who has been named as a finalist in the Gay Poetry category of the 2024 @LambdaLiterary Awards for his collection Hard Drive!

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8 years

Yeah, who even writes poetry anymore? Losers...

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2 years

More brilliant news! Well done @VKennefick on being shortlisted for the 2022 Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize 🎊🙌 Read all about it:

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Seamus Heaney Centre

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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2022 Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize, supported by Atlantic Philanthropies. 💫 Congratulations to all the shortlisted collections! Read more and book tickets to the Award Night later in June at the link in our bio...

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4 years

We are overjoyed at the news that @CarolineBirdUK has been awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 for The Air Year! We couldn't be prouder - congratulations, Caroline! Find out more & buy the book:

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4 years

Absolutely elated to have two poets on this year's @CostaBookAwards list! @CarolineBirdUK & the late Eavan Boland! 🥳🙏🎉 This is such a huge honour - find out more here: #CostaBookAwards

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Carcanet Press

6 years

Absolutely chuffed to bits to introduce our new look! We're entering our 50th year of publishing in 2019, & we hope for the next 50 to be just as exciting! Check out the new look at our website & watch this space for anniversary events later in the year!

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We're thrilled to announce that 'This Afterlife: Selected Poems' by @ae_stallings has been shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize! Congratulations Alicia 🎉 Read more here: @LHellenicPrize

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6 years

Today is a certain Les Murray's birthday! Happy birthday, Les! 🎂 We will be bringing you a selection of his poetry throughout the day... stay tuned

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7 years

We love these amazing sketches by @chrisriddell50 in the winter issue of The Poetry Review @PoetrySociety including our own John Ashbery, Tom Raworth and Roy Fisher

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We're truly honoured and humbled that the late Eavan Boland's final collection, The Historians, is the recipient of this year's #CostaBookAwards poetry prize - with many thanks to the judges, and even greater thanks to Eavan for the gifts she left us. Well done all!

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We're delighted to hear that Tara Bergin has been shortlisted for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry for her incredible collection Savage Tales! Congratulations from the Carcanet team 🎉 Read all about it here: @arrowsmithpress

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The winners of this year’s @Soc_of_Authors Awards have been announced – congratulations to Jay Gao, Caroline Bird and Jane Draycott! 🎉🌟

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We're thrilled to announce that 'This Afterlife: Selected Poems' by @ae_stallings has won the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award! It's the first book of poetry to ever win the award - congratulations Alicia! ✨ @AngHellenLeague @RuncimanAward

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We're excited to announce that Self-Portrait as Othello by @jallenpaisant has been shortlisted in the Poetry category of The Writers’ Prize! Congratulations from the whole team at Carcanet ⭐🎉 @TheWritersPrize

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Join Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo and Denise Riley for an in-person poetry reading at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds on Wednesday 20th September! Tickets are free but booking is required – register here: @HMILeeds

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Poetry reading and discussion: Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo & Denise Riley

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo and Denise Riley will read recent work, and discuss the impact of sculpture on poetry and poetics.

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We’re excited to announce that FIVE Carcanet titles have been named @PoetryBookSoc Spring Selections! 🎉⭐ @VKennefick 's Egg/Shell is the PBS choice, with @IGalleymore , @RevRachelMann and Gillian Clarke awarded Spring Recommendations, plus a Special Commendation for @rosaetc !

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4 years

Having a very proud publisher moment - the amazing @CarolineBirdUK 's just-published collection, The Air Year, is Book of the Month in @Telegraph ! Thanks so much to @TATFS and well done to Caroline - get your copy from our website 🥳🎉

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Poetry book of the month: The Air Year by Caroline Bird

It’s easy to take Caroline Bird for granted.

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5 years

We're excited to announce the first of our anniversary plans in @thebookseller 🍾🎂Parties galore on the way, the 250th issue of @PN_Review later in the year, & watch out for our jubilee book out in December 👀🥁 Celebrate with us using #Carcanet50 🙏📚

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The Bookseller

5 years

Manchester-based poetry publisher @Carcanet is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Founder and m.d. Michael Schmidt speaks to us about the highs and lows of the press' history and plans for the future here:

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4 years

Our first featured book for this month is @SashaDugdale 's Deformations!

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4 years

So so thrilled to see @SashaDugdale shortlisted for the @tseliotprize for her 'sly, subtle, elliptical work' ( @TATFS ), Deformations! 📘🎊 Incredible shortlist, congratulations to all! 🥳🙏

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T. S. Eliot Prize

4 years

Here's the fabulous T. S. Eliot 2020 shortlist: Natalie Diaz, Sasha Dugdale , Ella Frears, Will Harris, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Bhanu Kapil, Daisy Lafarge, Glyn Maxwell, Shane McCrae and J O Morgan.

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Our very own esteemed leader @MichaelSchmidt7 has been shortlisted for Editor of the Year in the #Nibbies @thebookseller ! We're so proud 😊 especially in our 50th anniversary year! Congratulations to all the other amazing editors on this list, & thanks to the judges!

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The Bookseller

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(2/2) Also up for Editor of the Year are @FaberBooks ’ @LouisaJoyner , @WmCollinsBooks ’ @ArabellaPike , @Carcanet ’s Michael Schmidt and @orionbooks ’ @avtrapeze #Nibbies ✒️📚🏆

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4 years

It’s publication day for these five new books! 🥳📚 We're honoured and privileged to have published five incredible, necessary books in such an unprecedented year where poetry seems more important than ever. 💘 #publicationday

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3 years

Happy publication day to our four June titles! 🥳 We’re honoured to be launching these collections into the world, and hope you find some joy in their pages. As ever, our thanks to go everyone involved in creating, printing, designing, reading and sharing these titles 📚

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4 years

It's the official publication day of our three January titles! What joy it brings us to send these collections out into the world 💫

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6 years

Had the best day at #FreeVerse18 thanks @PoetrySociety & all the poetry makers, publishers, readers & lovers who got involved! So wonderful to see the poetry community truly alive, & so many brilliant publications out there. Already looking forward to next year! 🎉🎊📚📚

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4 years

Hilda (H. D.) Doolittle was a major American poet, novelist & memoirist. She is strongly associated with both early 20th Century avant-garde & modernism. We published 11 of her books, starting in 1995 when we republished her major work Helen in Egypt.

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4 years

It's with both joy and sadness that we are publishing the final collection from the late, great Eavan Boland, a longtime and very dear friend to Carcanet. The Historians is our third book this month, take a look inside here:

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The 2024 Carcanet catalogue is here! ⭐ Have a look to see what we'll be publishing this year - which book are you most excited to read?

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7 months

This month we are publishing Egg/Shell by @VKennefick , which was named the Poetry Book Society Spring Choice! 🍳

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7 years

Sinead Morrissey's 'On Balance' #readwomen

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2 years

Self-Portrait as Othello by @jallenpaisant has been awarded @PoetryBookSoc Spring 2023 Choice – congratulations Jason! 🎉 Find out more on our website:

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On 21st February at 6.30pm, join @VKennefick at @WaterstonesCrk to celebrate the launch of her second collection, Egg/Shell! Victoria will be joined by fellow poet Thomas McCarthy. Find out more:

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1 year

The Resurrection by Elizabeth Jennings, taken from New Selected Poems (2019).

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2 years

We are very pleased to announce that we have been successful in receiving @ace_national NPO funding, which means that Carcanet will be discovering and developing more great new poets and finding new readers for its prizewinning backlist for the next three years! 🎉

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Great to see @JoeCarrickVarty , @CarolineBirdUK , @Padraig_Regan , Katherine Horrex and Mimi Khalvati all featured in the latest issue of The Poetry Review! @PoetrySociety

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Carcanet Press

4 years

We've cancelled several events in the coming weeks to do our bit not to spread any more infection, and we're aware of how this impacts our authors and us as a small independent publisher. Therefore, we've decided to offer 25% off the affected books on selected days 1/?

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We're thrilled to announce that Wong May has won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize for her collection In the Same Light: 200 Tang Poems for Our Century! 🎉🎉 Congratulations from the whole team at Carcanet @LitTranslate

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3 years

'Do you remember the place where you were when you read a poem? What about the place where you wrote a poem?' Today on the blog, @VCapildeo discusses their new collection, the @PoetryBookSoc Winter Choice, Like a Tree Walking! Read it here:

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The wonderful ‘Guest Room’ by @VKennefick was included in the Leaving Cert English Paper 2! Congratulations Victoria ♥ Victoria’s first collection, the Seamus Heaney-award winning Eat or We Both Starve, is available to order here:

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We're delighted to share that two Carcanet authors have made it onto the shortlist for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry! Ned Denny w/Ventriloquise & Martina Evans w/The Coming Thing. Congratulations to both, & to the other shortlisted poets & publishers!

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We're sorry to announce the passing of Greek poet Katerina Anghelaki Rooke, who died earlier today. Karen Van Dyck, who translated Anghelaki-Rooke's 2008 Carcanet collection, has sent us this unpublished translation in her memory.

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On 20th September at 7pm, join Martina Evans for the launch of her new collection, The Coming Thing! It will be hosted by poet @JuliaCopus and will feature readings, discussion and Q&A. Book here:

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📢Carcanet announces its next submission window, to open on 2 January 2023 and close on 20 January 2023. For full details, please go to our website:

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4 years

We're so thrilled to share the news that Sinéad Morrissey has been awarded Gdansk’s European Poet of Freedom 2020 for her award-winning collection On Balance! It's such an honour to publish Sinéad. Find out more:

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📣It's competition time! 📣 This Christmas, we're giving away a limited-edition, signed hardback copy of our Jubilee book, FIFTY FIFTY! These aren't available anywhere else in the world! 1 lucky winner will be drawn on the 𝟏𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 at 12PM - good luck!

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4 years

The Poems and Prose of C.P. Cavafy, expertly translated from the Greek by Evan Jones, are our third featured book this month! 📘🇬🇷 With The Barbarians Arrive Today, Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age.

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Congratulations to @jallenpaisant and @Jay_Gao_ , who have both been shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize! 🎉 Read all about it here:

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This month we are publishing The Strongbox by Sasha Dugdale!

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1 year

Congratulations to @jallenpaisant , @jay_gao_ and @Padraig_Regan for being longlisted for the 2023 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, a biennial prize awarded to a distinctive debut collection of poetry! 🎉 @EnglishAssoc

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The lives depicted by Victoria Kennefick alter, shatter and recombine in stunning monologues, innovative hybrid forms and piercing lyrics...

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Carcanet Press

4 years

We're delighted to publish American Originality, a collection of essays on poetry, from Louise Glück in 2021, and new poetry in autumn. @classicpenguins will publish Glück’s collected Poems & a standalone paperback of Averno in August 2021.

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Nobel literature prize winner Louise Glück reveals 'panic' in acceptance speech

On Monday it was also announced that the poet will publish a new collection, Winter Recipes from the Collective, in 2021

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Join us to celebrate the life and work of one of Ireland's best loved poets, Dennis O'Driscoll, as we launch his Collected Poems (31/08)

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“Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves.” — Lorna Goodison Happy #WorldPoetryDay ! ✨

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Carcanet Press

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Please do join us on November 11th at 7PM to celebrate the life and work of the late, great Eavan Boland with some special friends and family of hers. Tickets are £2, and can be bought here:

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'Are we / extinct yet. Who owns / the map.' In this week's blog, you can listen to @jorie_graham read two poems from her much-anticipated upcoming collection, To 2040! Read the blog here:

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Our first featured book of March is Victoria Kennefick’s Eat or We Both Starve! Open this thread to read some poems from the debut collection ♥️🤍 @VKennefick

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In honour of PN Review’s 50th anniversary, we’ve put together a special collection with @PoetryArchive ! ✨ Gathering fifty poems from contributors, it includes a number of poems that first appeared in the magazine. Explore the collection here:

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'The body in Mann’s work is as full of holiness as it is of queerness, of mess & filth & life, & it’s this nuance, playful & inventive, grief-stricken & furious, that makes this collection one of the best of this year so far.' @shortestwitch on @RevRachelMann in @MagmaPoetry 89.

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We are deeply saddened to share the news that Stanley Moss, poet, longtime friend of the press & close friend of Carcanet's MD Michael Schmidt for decades, died on Friday 5th July in New City, N.Y., aged 99. He will be greatly missed. RIP Stanley. 🖤

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On 15 June 1996, twenty-five years ago, the IRA bombed Manchester, and the old Carcanet office was destroyed. 'We left behind piles of submissions that the rain had turned to papier-mache.' Read Michael's full account of the event:

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5 years

Happy birthday to William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)! Here's a poem from his Collected Poems Vol II, published earlier this year ⏳

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Carcanet Press

2 years

The title poem from Les Murray's last book of poems, Continuous Creation, published by us in April 🌍

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Carcanet Press

3 years

The second book we're publishing this month is Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020, the first nonfiction work from Fred D'Aguiar. Open this thread to look inside the book⬇️

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Carcanet Press

4 years

We're overjoyed that we've been shortlisted for the Small Press Award in this year's British Book Awards! Also shortlisted in the Northern region are our friends at @sarabandebooks , @andothertweets , @VertebratePub , @Ofmooseandmen , @commapress & @fly_press ! Well done everyone!

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The Bookseller

4 years

This year's #BritishBookAwards Small Press of the Year Regional and Country Finalists have been revealed, with 44 fantastic presses showing the “strength, breadth and durability” of our industry! Congratulations team! 🎉 Take a look at the full list:

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Carcanet Press

5 months

'A voice at once shocked and desperately mourning... Kennefick's capacity to navigate the near-impossible, while maintaining her writerly composure, allows the poem's rigging to reorientate her in this new world.' Declan Ryan on @VKennefick @IrishTimes .

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New poetry: John F Deane; Victoria Kennefick; Mícheál McCann; and Scott McKendry

Reviews: Selected and New Poems; egg/shell; Devotion; Gub

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Carcanet Press

7 months

Join @igalleymore on 27th March for the online launch of her upcoming second collection, Baby Schema! As well as reading from the book, Isabel will be joined in conversation by host @jorie_graham . Register here:

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Carcanet Press

7 years

Yes! Well done Sinead!!!

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Forward Prizes

7 years

The winner of the #ForwardPrizes Best Collection 2017 is Sinéad Morrissey for ‘On Balance’, published by @carcanet !

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4 years

Congratulations to @CarolineBirdUK & @ProfDavidMorley on this phenomenal achievement 🥳🥂🎉

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Forward Prizes

4 years

The 2020 #ForwardPrizes Best Collection shortlist: Caroline Bird – The Air Year Natalie Diaz – Postcolonial Love Poem Vicki Feaver – I Want! I Want! David Morley – FURY Pascale Petit – Tiger Girl

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Carcanet Press

6 years

We're so so excited today because Sinéad Morrissey has been shortlisted for the 2018 The Roehampton Poetry Prize for On Balance! The biggest congratulations ever to her, & to the rest of the fantastic shortlist & their publishers!

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Carcanet Press

7 years

From @SashaDugdale 's collection 'Joy' - containing the winning @ForwardPrizes poem of the same name #ValentinesDay2018 #Valentines

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Carcanet Press

11 months

Fantastic to see the latest collections by Martina Evans and Andrew Wynn Owen included in the @GuardianBooks roundup of the best recent poetry - thank you Philip Terry for the glowing reviews! 📚✨

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The best recent poetry – review roundup

Pitch & Glint by Lutz Seiler; Mothersong by Amy Acre; Infinite in Finite by Andrew Wynn Owen; Enter the Water by Jack Wiltshire; The Coming Thing by Martina Evans

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Carcanet Press

9 months

We're thrilled to see four Carcanet collections included in @IrishTimesBooks roundup of the best new poetry collections of 2023! Congratulations @jallenpaisant , @jorie_graham , @JoeCarrickVarty and @Kit_Fan_ 🎉

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The best new poetry collections of 2023

Three poets choose their highlights of the year

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7 years

2018's first February blog from #NewPoetries features @IGalleymore and her piece, ‘The Ocean’, which you can also hear Isabel read:

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Carcanet Press

4 years

Today, we're delighted to have an introduction to @VKennefick poetry written by Carcanet/Northern House poet @gosspoems on the blog! Read it here:

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1 year

Here's a sneak preview of the books that Carcanet will be releasing in May!

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