Lanyard

Peter Sansom

ISBN 9781800170209

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £12.99

PUBLICATION DATE 30th June 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 25th August 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp

TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry

‘In my view the UK’s most astute and effective tutor, a guiding light through his deft criticism and the example of his own work’ SIMON ARMITAGE

• The richness of family life is at the centre of this assured and utterly open book by one of the UK’s best-loved poets and teachers

• Vividly presents and celebrates working class life, often through poems about art... from George Michael’s ‘Careless Whisper’ to paintings and sculpture, to writers including Emily Bronte, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, D. H. Lawrence, Alice Munro & Fernando Pessoa

• Lanyard takes in school and college, a first car, darts, teaching, a leaky roof, a leaky heart, pigeons, the Lake District, Whitby and the business of poetry

• With his wife Ann Sansom he is one of the directors of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and Smith|Doorstop Books

About The Author

Carcanet published Peter Sansom’s first book in 1990. Among more recent titles are Selected Poems and Careful What You Wish For, which won him a Cholmondeley Award in 2016. He has also published Writing Poems (Bloodaxe, 1994, new edition 2024). He has been Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester Universities and Company Poet with M&S and The Prudential. With Ann Sansom he is one of the directors of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and Smith|Doorstop Books.

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Zest: Essays on the Art of Living

Iain Bamforth

ISBN 9781800172050

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £19.99

PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th September 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 304pp

TERRITORIES World

BIC CODE DNF Literary Essays

‘To read him makes the patterns of our minds richer’ THE GUARDIAN

Sales Points

• A sensuous, richly nuanced collection of essays for intellectual and emotional survival in this fractious age

• Takes us by way of writers, artists, philosophers, travellers, and photographers into the world of Zest – how we can find it and what its discovery does to us

• Explores the impact of science on literature; globalisation and travel; work, leisure and the notion of the “good life”

• Bamforth has received an Eric Gregory Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, and has written for the TLS, LRB, Quadrant, and the New York Times Book Review

About The Author

Iain Bamforth was born in 1959 and grew up in Glasgow. He has worked as a hospital doctor in the American Hospital of Paris and the Australian outback, as urban and rural general practitioner, and more recently on community health projects in south-east Asia. He has also been a scientific translator and editor, literary journalist and lecturer in comparative literature. He has published five collections of poetry, a history of modern medicine as told through literature (The Body in the Library, Verso), and a collection of essays on European intellectual history (The Good European, Carcanet).

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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