The Kingdom

Jane Draycott

ISBN 9781800172593

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 27th October 2022

‘I’ve waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline’

THE GUARDIAN ON ‘THE NIGHT TREE’

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 8th December 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 70pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DCF Poetry

• The latest collection from multiple Forward- and T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated poet

• Draycott teaches on postgraduate writing programmes at the universities of Oxford and Lancaster

• Her fifth Carcanet collection, The Kingdom has its face turned towards the future, considering how we face the ever-continuing approach of the unknown

• Includes shortlisted and award-winning new work on themes of hope and the desire for connection

• Includes poems that continue her conversation with the medieval imagination

About The Author

Jane Draycott’s previous collections from Carcanet Press include The Occupant (Poetry Book Society Recommendation), Over (T S Eliot Prize shortlist), Prince Rupert’s Drop (Forward Prize shortlist) and her 2011 prize-winning translation of the the medieval dream-elegy Pearl. A recipient of the Keats Shelley Prize for Poetry, Draycott has been NL Letterenfonds Writer in Residence in Amsterdam and was winner of the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. A Next Generation Poet 2004, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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