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Take us the Little Foxes: Collected Poems

‘[Waiting for the Nightingale is] easily the funniest book of poems about the raging nonsense of love that I have read’

Miles Burrows ISBN 9781800171398 FORMAT Paperback

MICHAEL GLOVER,

RRP £14.99

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PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 U.S.A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th October 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 208pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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A Collected Poems that at turns cuts and stumbles through the self-contradictions, selfdeceptions, and absurdities of everyday life

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A collection of humorous and oddly profound poetic ‘sketches’ and dramas

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Subjects range from love, death, and quantum cosmology, to kidnapping a German General in Crete, and retraining as a young Parisian seamstress...

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He studied Russian, Classics and medicine, and was New Statesman travel and fiction reviewer

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He won the Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, worked as a doctor in Thailand, New Guinea, and Haverhill. He now lives in Cambridge

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Miles Burrows was born in Leicester and educated at Wadham College, Oxford University, where he graduated in Classics, Philosophy and Medicine, having studied Russian in National Service. He did his internship at University College London and has practised as a doctor in the United Kingdom, New Guinea and in the Far East. He also worked as a book reviewer for the New Statesman. His first Carcanet collection, Waiting for the Nightingale, was published in 2017.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784103408 Waiting for the Nightingale Miles Burrows April 2017 £9.99

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CARCANET POETRY

Field Requiem ISBN 9781800171510

‘As a poet, Benning communicates feeling through words – and... she does so piercingly.’’

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Sheri Benning RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021

U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 25th November 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets; 1KBC Canada

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New ‘contemporary prairie gothic’ collection from Canadian poet Sheri Benning, a lead poet from Carcanet’s bestselling anthology New Poetries V

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Her first two collections each won two Saskatchewan Book Awards

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Lyric poetry that charts a way of life collapsing: the world of the family farm

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Eco-criticism that bears witness to the violence that inheres in climate change and the shift to industrialized farming

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Inspired by her native home, rural Saskatchewan, its prairie, rivers and fauna

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sheri Benning is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Season’s Vagrant Light: New and Selected (Carcanet Press). Her previous two collections published in Canada, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press). Her poems, essays and short stories have appeared in Canadian, British, Irish and Italian anthologies and literary magazines.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784101060 The Season’s Vagrtant Light: New and Selected Poems Sheri Benning July 2015 £9.99

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CARCANET POETRY

the clarity of distant things

Jane Duran

ISBN 9781800171596 FORMAT Paperback RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 25th November 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 104pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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New collection by Cuban-American poet Jane Duran, first from Carcanet (earlier books from Enitharmon)

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A book of two sequences, the first, ‘Gridlines’, inspired by the life and abstract paintings of Canadian-born artist Agnes Martin

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The second, ‘miniatures of al-andalus’, inspired by paintings and artefacts created during the period of Islamic rule in Spain

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Celebrates some of the artistic and intellectual achievements of Islamic Spain, while also touching on themes of loss, displacement and exile

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Lives in London with Algerian husband and son

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Selections of her poems have appeared in Poetry Introduction 8 (Faber 1993), Making for Planet Alice (Bloodaxe 1997), and Modern Women Poets (Bloodaxe 2005). In 1995 Enitharmon published her first full collection, Breathe Now, Breathe which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Enitharmon also published 4 subsequent collections, including Coastal (2005) and Graceline (2010) which were both PBS Recommendations. She received a Cholmondeley Award in 2005.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784105907 Grimspound and Inhabiting Art Rod Mengham November 2018 £16.99

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On the Way to Jerusalem Farm Carola Luther ISBN 9781800171633 FORMAT Paperback RRP £11.99 PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 25th November 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 150pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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Third collection from South Africa-born poet Carola Luther

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Her debut Walking the Animals shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection

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This new collection explores the complexities of living in a damaged world

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Themes of loss and grief at our damage of natural environments that retain their power to bring us solace and hope

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A spiritual sequel to her previous collections, celebrating especially northern English landscapes, finding, not answers, but means of continuing

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carola Luther’s first two collections, Walking the Animals (2004) and Arguing with Malarchy (2011) were published by Carcanet Press. Walking the Animals was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection.

Herd, a pamphlet of poems, was published by The Wordsworth Trust where Carola was Poet in Residence in 2012. She has worked in NGO’s, teaching, and mental health, and written text and lyrics for theatre. She moved to the UK from South Africa in 1981, and now lives in Yorkshire.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781847770936 Arguing With Malarchy Carola Luther July 2011 £9.95

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LIVES AND LETTERS

Year of Plagues

‘dazzling, provoking, and ultimately enlightening.

I couldn’t put it down’

A Memoir of 2020

Fred D’Aguiar

JUSTIN TORRES ,

ISBN 9781800172418

WE THE ANIM AL S

AUTHOR OF

FORMAT Paperback RRP £18.99 PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 336pp TERRITORIES World excluding USA & Canada BIC CODE BM Memoirs

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In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope

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For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D’Aguiar, 2020 was a year of personal and global crisis: Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, California burned, and D’Aguiar was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer

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Combines personal reminiscence and philosophy, and questions the purpose of pursuing a life of writing and teaching in the face of overwhelming upheavals

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A harrowing yet uplifting genre-bending memoir of existence, protest, and survival

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Fred D’Aguiar was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents and grew up in Guyana, returning to England when he was a teenager. He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His previous collections of poetry include Airy Hall (1989; winner of the Guyana Poetry Prize) and Bill of Rights (1998; shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize). His fourth Carcanet collection, Letters to America, was published in 2020 and was the Poetry Book Society Winter Choice and a White Review Book of the Year. Currently he is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781800170087 Letters to America Fred D’Aguiar November 2020 £10.99

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Grand Larcenies Translations and Imitations of Ten Dutch Poets ISBN 9781800171329

edited & translated by P.C. E va n s

FORMAT Paperback RRP £14.99 PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021

U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th October 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 224pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCQ Poetry anthologies; 1DDN Netherlands

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Translations of 10 modern Dutch poets that cast a brilliant light on the world of Dutch poetry, including...

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The unstable genius Hans R. Vlek, who completed his stunning oeuvre in a mental asylum...

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Gerrit Kouwenaar, whose Eliotesque impersonality and advocacy of language stands like a tent staked out in a hurricane in his homage to his late wife...

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Eva Gerlach, Hester Knibbe, Rob Schouten, Willem van Toorn, J. Eijkelboom, H.H ter Balkt, K. Michel, and Esther Jansma

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A dual-language edition in English and Dutch, with appendices for the poetry aficionado and the scholar

ABOUT THE EDITOR P.C. Evans is a Welsh poet, writer and translator of poetry, novels and drama. His plays have been performed at the Guggenheim, The Old Vic, and the Edinburgh Festival.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781800170407 New Poetries VIII: An Anthology Ed. Schmidt & McAuliffe January 2021 £14.99

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Midnight in the Kant Hotel Art in Present Times

‘[Mengham is] a guide who is unusually scrupulous, keen-sighted and alive to the less routinely observed’

Rod Mengham ISBN 9781800171473 FORMAT Paperback RRP £14.99

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PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 U.S.A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th October 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 310pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DNF Literary Essays; AC History of Art

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Collection of essays about the art of the last thirty years from the Curator of Works at Jesus College, Cambridge

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Part 1: Preface in the form of personal memoir, from a man deeply embedded in art culture

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Part 2: Essays surveying major themes together with their immediate and wider contexts

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Part 3: Essays examining closely the work of important, individual artists - both well-known and less familiar (Damien Hirst, Tacita Dean, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, and more)

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Mengham has also written catalogue introductions & essays for Marlborough London and The Heong Gallery, Cambridge

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rod Mengham is the publisher of Equipage, Reader in Modern English Literature and Curator of Works of Art at Jesus College, Cambridge. Rod Mengham’s published poetry includes Chance of a Storm (Carcanet, 2015), Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001) and Parley and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007). He has published monographs and edited collections of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, violence and avantgarde art, the 1940s, and contemporary poetry. His translations include Andrzej Sosnowski’s Speedometry (Contraband, 2014).

Grimspound and Inhabiting Art was published by Carcanet in 2018.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784105907 Grimspound and Inhabiting Art Rod Mengham November 2018 £16.99

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CARCANET CLASSICS

Poems and Satires Edna St Vincent Millay

edited by Tr i s t r am Fan e Sau n der s

ISBN 9781800171671 FORMAT Paperback RRP £14.99 PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 25th November 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 160pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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Telegraph poetry critic Tristram Fane Saunders presents work of the most popular American writer of her generation, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

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This bold selection re-reads the 1920s ‘flapper poet‘ as an essential voice for the 2020s

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More than 80 of Millay’s much-loved poems included with a new essay by Saunders reevaluating her life and work

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Includes her formally thrilling tragicomic anti-war play Aria da Capo in its entirety

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The only Selected edition to include the vivid satirical sketches published under her pseudonym Nancy Boyd, out of print since 1924

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECE A SED) & EDITOR Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was one of the most popular American writers of her generation, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. While best known for her poetry, she was also the author of acclaimed verse dramas and satirical short stories.

Tristram Fane Saunders lives in London and works as a journalist. His poems appear in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology, and his latest pamphlet is Woodsong (Smith|Doorstop, 2019). He is The Telegraph’s poetry critic.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784109066 New Selected Poems Christina Rossetti March 2020 £12.99

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Virga

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

Togara Muzanenhamo

‘this poet has a rare gift’

ISBN 9781800171435

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FORMAT Paperback RRP £10.99 PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 U.S.A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th October 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets;

1HFMW Zimbabwe

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Third collection by a leading contemporary African poet

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Currently lives in Zimbabwe but writes of the wider cultures of Africa

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Previous collection Gumiguru (2014) was runner-up for the 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

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These poems capture events and stories told through a fast evolving century encased beneath an ancient, fragile sky

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Weather and the memory of wind are the keys to unlocking the twentieth century

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Events include the decimation of whole villages in northern Cameroon in 1986, the 1921 World Championship chess matches in Cuba, and the 1911 Japanese Antarctic Expedition

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Togara Muzanenhamo was born in Zambia and brought up in Zimbabwe. He has published two collections of poetry, Spirit Brides and Gumiguru. He has been shortlisted for the Jerwood Alderburgh First Collection Prize and the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781847772572 Gumiguru Togara Muzanenhamo October 2014 £9.95