Sandpiper The Journals of Elizabeth Bishop
ISBN: PB: 9781800173514, Carcanet, November 2025
280 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This is a fascinating window giving on the private thoughts of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. It follows on Carcanet's publication of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments", edited by...
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Dr Work's Leopard Life with Appa
ISBN: PB: 9781784108038, Carcanet, March 2025
96 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
For several years Sujata Bhatt has been working on two parallel projects, a new collection of poems to be called "Habitat" (her most recent book was "Poppies in Translation" in 2015) and her Appa stories, a move into prose. Appa is a physician, a fat...
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Citizen Poet New and Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781800171701, Carcanet, September 2024
440 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
Costa Poetry Award 2020 Irish PEN Award for Literature 2019 Bob Hughes Lifetime Award 2017 Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 1994 Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry 1994 At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work – poems an...
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Apple Thieves
ISBN: PB: 9781800174290, Carcanet, August 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize 2019 Poetry Book Society Recommendations 2012 and 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection finalist 2013 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 2013 "I love paintings that give us glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that...
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Partita and A Winter in Zurau
ISBN: PB: 9781800174313, Carcanet, August 2024
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
In "Partita", Gabriel Josipovici's precipitate novel, Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. He is surrounded by sinister questions. Who is the woman dead in the bathtub? Is she really dead? Why does the voice of Yves Mo...
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Scattered Snows, to the North
ISBN: PB: 9781800174337, Carcanet, August 2024
64 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The Pulitzer Prize For Poetry 2023 Carl Phillips's "Scattered Snows, to the North" is a collection aboutp distortion and revelation, about knowing and the unreliability of a knowledge that's rooted in (always unstable) human memory. If the poet's r...
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Polkadot Wounds
ISBN: PB: 9781800174252, Carcanet, July 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Shortlisted for The Jhalak Prize 2022 Poetry Book Society Choice 2021 Longlisted for The BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature 2020 "Polkadot Wounds" is full of the jumbled delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of trying to live a connec...
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Why Are You Shouting?
ISBN: PB: 9781800174535, Carcanet, July 2024
128 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Longlisted for the Read Russia Prize 2018; Shortlisted 2020 Shortlisted for The Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize 2018 Longlisted for The International Dylan Thomas Prize 2018 "Why Are You Shouting?", James Womack's fourth Carcanet collection, thinks abou...
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Ambush at Still Lake
ISBN: PB: 9781800174122, Carcanet, June 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2020 Shortlisted for The Polari Book Prize 2021 Caroline Bird's new poems show us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending. This is a c...
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From Base Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781800174160, Carcanet, June 2024
96 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
These poems are apocalyptic and sensory, coming from a place of hurt and love, of the human spirit struggling to transcend "base matter" and make sense of the world. "From Base Materials is rich and various in its occasions. It ranges thematically f...
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