Arctic Elegies

Peter Davidson

ISBN 9781800172630

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

‘This is a poet’s book, his mind wide open to the cultures of the world [...] luscious, musical and precise’

PUBLICATION DATE 24th November 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th January 2023

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp

TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry

Sales Points

• Second Carcanet poetry collection from Peter Davidson is a book of elegies and consolations for dead friends, past times, and spiritual consolations

• One of two main elegies is for the Franklin expedition of the early nineteenth century, lost in the arctic with no survivors

• The other main elegy is a complex, neo-baroque memorial for a cosmopolitan dead friend, a fantastist who lived a number of secret lives

• The collection explores places, regrets and memories – travels in cold upland Britain and European backwaters

• The past is also evoked by translations and imitations of Rilke and the Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff

About The Author

Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957 and educated there and at the Universities of Cambridge and York. He is Senior Research Fellow of Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Fellow-Curator of the Hall’s art collection. As well as many academic works he has published several books of literary non-fiction: The Idea of North (2005), Distance and Memory (2013), The Last of the Light (2015), and The Lighted Window (2021). He lives in Oxford.

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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Peter Davidson

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Aliquot John Clegg

ISBN 9781800172357

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

‘No poet writing today matches John Clegg for wit and rigour’

DAI GEORGE, AUTHOR OF KARAOKE KING

PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th November 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp

TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry

Sales Points

• John Clegg is a well-loved bookseller at the LRB Bookshop, London

• His second collection Holy Toledo! was shortlisted for the 2017 Ledbury Forte Prize

• Fractious jumpy poems, exploring contemporary science, new parenthood, encroaching storms, and the land of the dead

• Heart of the collection is the long poem ‘A Gene Sequence’, which takes its formal constraints from the genetic code itself

• Title of the collection speaks to the poems’ sense of being parts of larger wholes – of a realised, restive and unique individual world

About The Author

John Clegg works as a bookseller in London. In 2013 he was awarded an Eric Gregory Prize. His second collection, Holy Toledo! (2016), was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize.

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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9781784102609

Holy Toledo!

John Clegg

May 2016

£9.99