The Fourth Sister

Laura Scott

ISBN 9781800173057

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £10.99

PUBLICATION DATE 23rd February 2023

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th April 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

‘I couldn’t put it down and have kept returning to these poems [...] Her lyricism is like shot silk - it ripples with light.’

Sales Points

• Debut collection So Many Rooms won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2020 and the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020

• This highly anticipated second collection tells stories, many of them with powerful historical resonance, drawing on lived experience, relationships, pain and love

• Many of the poems have the intimate feel of letters intercepted, things overheard, profoundly human and moving, wry and revealing

• Continuing her engagement with Chekov, The Fourth Sister includes a long poem, ‘why are you silent?’, made out of letters between Chekhov and the actress Olga Knipper, his wife and ‘first lady’, who died aged 90 in 1959

About The Author

Laura Scott was born in London and now lives in Norwich. Her pamphlet, What I Saw, won the Michael Marks Award in 2014, and in 2015 she won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. Her poems have appeared in various magazines including PN Review, Oxford Poetry and Poetry Review, and a selection of her work was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII in 2018. Her first collection, So Many Rooms (Carcanet, 2019), won the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize 2020 and the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020.

Trade Information

Trade orders to Ingram Publisher Services, ipsuk.orders@ingramcontent.com, 01752 202301

Represented in the UK by Compass Ltd sales@compassips.london, 0208 326 5696

Represented in Ireland by Brookside Publishing Services michael.darcy@brookside.ie, +353 12784225

For more information please contact Alan Brenik alan@carcanet.co.uk, 0161 834 8730 ext. 21

Carcanet Press, Alliance House, 4th Floor, 30 Cross Street, Manchester, M2 7AQ

Also Available

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So Many Rooms

Laura Scott

August 2019

£9.99

Sales Points

Bride of Ice: Selected Poems Marina Tsvetaeva

ISBN 9781800172272

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £14.99

PUBLICATION DATE 26th January 2023

translated by

E laine F einstein

‘The savage beauty and coruscating sadness of Feinstein’s renderings make this edition a priceless audience with one of the voices of the century.’

INDEPENDENT

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th March 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 186pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry, CFP Translation, 1DVUA Russia

• Elaine Feinstein’s ground-breaking translations of one of the most celebrated Russian poets of the twentieth century, reissued as a Carcanet Classic

• Includes five major poem sequences, one of which is a group of short lyrics Tsvetaeva wrote for her lover Sofia Parnok in 1915 titled ‘Girlfriend’

• Tsvetaeva belonged to a group of four great writers – with Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelshtam and Boris Pasternak – who retained their humanity and integrity through Russia’s ‘terrible years’

• Also includes a full introduction, notes and bibliography of works in English

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)

Marina Tsvetaeva was born in Moscow in 1891 and had established her reputation as a poet by the age of eighteen. She had a troubled life, in exile for many years: the only continuity was poetry and her loyalty to individual poets. Returning to Russia in 1939, her family was quickly torn apart by Stalin’s purges: they were suspected of working against the Soviet government. When war came she was evacuated to Yelabuga, where she hanged herself in 1941.

Trade Information

Trade orders to Ingram Publisher Services, ipsuk.orders@ingramcontent.com, 01752 202301

Represented in the UK by Compass Ltd sales@compassips.london, 0208 326 5696

Represented in Ireland by Brookside Publishing Services michael.darcy@brookside.ie, +353 12784225

For more information please contact Alan Brenik alan@carcanet.co.uk, 0161 834 8730 ext. 21 Carcanet Press, Alliance House, 4th Floor, 30 Cross Street, Manchester, M2 7AQ

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New Selected Poems

Christina Rossetti

March 2020

£12.99