It Must Be a Misunderstanding:

New and Selected Poems

Coral Bracho

ISBN 9781800171978

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £15.99

PUBLICATION DATE 28th July 2022

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 320pp

TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada

BIC CODE DCF Poetry, CFP Translation, 1KLCM Mexico

• The first time Bracho - one of the most significant Mexican writers since Octavio Paz - has been extensively published in the UK

• Bracho’s most personal and emotionally expressive collection of poems to date

• Dedicated to her mother who died of complications from Alzheimer’s, these poems find humor, tenderness and joy in her mother’s struggle while gradually revealing her inimitably strong, quirky character

• Bracho’s layered, wide-lined poetry has been compared to Jorie Graham’s, and her influence on Mexican poetry compared to John Ashbery’s influence on American verse

• Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet-translator Forrest Gander

About The Author

Mexican poet and translator Coral Bracho was born in Mexico City, where she still lives and teaches. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Ese espacio, ese jardín (2003) which won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. Her poetry was translated for the Poetry Translation Center’s 2005 World Poets’ Tour by Tom Boll and poet Katherine Pierpoint. Bracho’s honors include the Aguacalientes National Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in California. Gander is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Translated Book Award.

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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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‘Gorji constructs intricate, considered poems which encourage us to democratise our attention and empathy’ THE

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

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 56pp

TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry

Sales Points

• Her debut collection, Art of Escape, was a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month (Jan 2020)

• Scale builds on the considerable achievement of her first book, transitioning from ‘escape’ to ‘shelter’

• These poems build a place of safety for herself, her family, her readers, and all those who are wandering and uprooted

• A collection full of creatures and their habitats, Gorji evokes and explores the multiple protective measures they adopt - nests, camouflage, mimicry, display

• Feeds into current ecological concerns without being conventional or clichéd, and delighting in the sometimes strange and darker side of nature

About The Author

Mina Gorji was born in Tehran and grew up in London. She lives in Cambridge where she is a lecturer in the English Faculty, Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. Her debut poetry collection, Art of Escape, was published by Carcanet in 2020. Her other published work includes a study of John Clare, and essays on awkwardness, mess, weeds and rudeness. Her poems have appeared, among other places, in Magma, PN Review, London Magazine and The International Literary Quarterly

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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