Fower Pessoas
Fernando Pessoa & Colin Bramwell (tr.)
ISBN 9781800174641
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th February 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th April 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 88pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DSP Portugal, 1DDU-GB-S Scotland
• A bold reimagining of an indispensable European writer’s poetry into a mixed dialect of Scots and English by an exciting next-generation, prize-winning Scottish poet
• Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa’s main poetic personae into present-day Scots-language vernaculars, recreating Pessoa for a contemporary audience
• By turns wise, empathetic, anxious, frustrated, moody, depressive and hilarious, this reinterpretation celebrates Pessoa’s extraordinary range of modes, moods, styles and ethics
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was the greatest Portuguese poet of the last century, and remains a key European writer.
Colin Bramwell grew up on the Black Isle and lives in Edinburgh. He studied literature at Edinburgh, McGill, Oxford and St Andrews. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Irish Pages, The London Magazine, PN Review, Magma, The Rialto, New Writing Scotland, Interpret, Poetry Scotland and The Scotsman. Colin’s first as-yet unpublished poetry collection was shortlisted for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize; his translations of the Taiwanese poet Yang Mu won the 2018 John Dryden Translation Competition; his translation of Ko-Hua Chen’s Decapitated Poetry was shortlisted for the 2024 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. His most recent book is Aonghas Macneacail’s beyond (co-edited with Gerda Stevenson, Shearsman 2024). Colin is a member of the Southbank New Poets Collective, and holds a doctorate in creative writing from St Andrews.
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9781857547245
A Centenary Pessoa, 3rd edition
Fernando Pessoa August 2003
£19.95
SALES POINTS
Bunting’s Honey Moya Cannon
ISBN 9781800174894
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th June 2025
‘Three decades of poems from one of Ireland’s finest contemporary writers [...] assured, consistent and has a quality both ancient and timeless.’
SEÁN HEWITT, IRISH TIMES ON ‘COLLECTED POEMS’
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th August 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland
• This new collection from one of Ireland’s leading writers is a book of wonderings and wanderings, charting how we engage with our increasingly imperilled landscapes and seascapes
• Rooted in Ireland, but ranging farther afield from France to China, the poet explores the lives lived in those places, as evidenced by history and archaeology
• Examines the importance of music and visual art in providing a fresh perspective on life, longing and loss — the title poem ‘Bunting’s Honey’ is a tribute to those who composed and played early Irish harp music
• Meditates on cultural boundaries and the persistent horrors of war; encounters with other cultures throw new light on the familiar and highlight what we share in spite of differences
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Moya Cannon, originally from Co. Donegal, has spent most of her adult life in Galway and now lives in Dublin. She has represented Ireland at many international festivals and conferences. Her work has been widely translated. She has taught creative writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway, was director of the International Writers’ Course at NUIG, and she has edited Poetry Ireland Review. A winner of the Brendan Behan award and of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy award, she has a deep interest in music and enjoys performing with musicians. Her Collected Poems was one of the Irish Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2021.
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9781800170322
Collected Poems
Moya Cannon February 2021
£16.99
SALES POINTS
Heirloom
Catherine-Esther Cowie
ISBN 9781800174795
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 24th April 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th June 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1KJWWL St. Lucia,
1KBB-US-MLC Illinois, USA
• This first collection from a Caribbean-born writer examines how violence shapes four generations of women and how each generation resists the dysfunction, tyranny, and terror inherited from the previous one
• Set in colonial and post-colonial St. Lucia and divided into four sections, each representing a successive generation, a series of persona poems explore themes of lineage, post-memory, colonialism, mother-daughter relationships, mental health, and violence
• Cowie elegizes and celebrates the lives of women who resist destructive forces, both within and without, and who are fiercely determined to live
• Utilizes the Caribbean trope of the madwoman not only as a form of erasure but resistance, memory and liberation
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catherine-Esther Cowie was born in St. Lucia to a Trinidadian father and a St. Lucian mother. She migrated with her family to Canada and then to the USA. Her poems have been published in PN Review, Prairie Schooner, West Branch Journal, The Common, SWWIM, Rhino Poetry and others. Cowie is a Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop fellow. She lives in Illinois, USA.
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9781800174009
Coco Island
Christine Roseeta Walker April 2024
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Dante’s Inferno Lorna Goodison
ISBN 9781800174665
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £16.99
PUBLICATION DATE 24th April 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 180pp
TERRITORIES World excluding USA & Canada
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1KJWJ Jamaica
‘[Gooidson] has created a body of enchanting, intelligent and socially aware poetry in the authentic registers of her own tongue’ SIMON ARMITAGE
• This new Jamaican Dante is as much a transformation as it is translation, by one of the most celebrated Caribbean writers of our time and former Poet Laureate of Jamaica
• A quarter of a century in the making, this exhilarating new version, using the entire continuum of Jamaican speech yet grounded in Dante’s formal architecture, brings an entire world to life
• The poet’s narrator, its Dante figure, is now guided through an underworld by Goodison’s great Jamaican predecessor Louise Bennett, ‘Miss Lou’ in the book
• We encounter other poets, including Goodison’s friend Derek Walcott, as well as Caribbean politicians and reggae innovators
• Previous collection, Mother Muse, was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize 2022
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lorna Goodison was born and grew up in Jamaica, where she still has a home. She has taught in Canada and in the United States and her poetry and prose are widely anthologised. Carcanet publish Oracabessa (2013) as well as multiple selections of her poetry, including most recently her Collected Poems (2017) and Mother Muse (2021). She has won numerous awards including the Henry Russel Award for Exceptional Creative Work from the University of Michigan, the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry 2018, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. She was Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2017-2020.
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9781800171060
Mother Muse
Lorna Goodison
June 2021
£10.99
SALES POINTS
Father’s Father’s Father Dane Holt
ISBN 9781800174689
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th March 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th May 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland
A POETRY BOOK
SOCIETY SPRING
RECOMMENDATION 2025
‘his poetry is contemporary and confident [...] he has a sharp eye and writes with humour’
THE FRIDAY POEM
• Debut collection from the winner of the inaugural Brotherton Prize, awarded by the University of Leeds, and the principal contributor to Carcanet’s Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology (2019)
• This book confronts class, grief and the self-dramatising of masculinity in the aftermath of tragedy
• The loss of fathers and their legacies is explored and expanded into an exploration of the formation and disillusion of communities that have been built around performances of masculinity
• A poetic narrative style expressed through various modes, voices and cultural figures (such as private detectives, professional wrestlers and bodybuilders)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dane Holt holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast. His debut pamphlet, Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire (Lifeboat Press), was published in 2023 and was a Poetry Book Society Autumn Pamphlet Choice. In 2019, he won the inaugural Brotherton Prize, awarded by the University of Leeds. He was the 2023 Ciaran Carson Publishing Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Belfast.
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9781800173019
More Sky Joe Carrick-Varty January 2023
£11.99
SALES POINTS
A History of Western Music Poems August Kleinzahler
ISBN 9781800174931
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th March 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
‘Much like the best music, Kleinzahler’s poems are both personal and communal [...] these poems are electric and moving’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1KBB USA, AVM History of Music
• A career-spanning selection of poems by an award-winning American writer, capturing the essence of the West’s greatest music
• From John Coltrane to Annie Lenox, from opera to bebop, this collection is a portrait of the meaning and memory that music creates and contains in one’s life
• With a rhythmic, wry, kinetic style, this ‘pugilist poet’ explores how music is inextricable from life, from landscape, and from the people we remember through it
• Kleinzahler’s previous collections won the Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2008
• Recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Lannan Literary Award in Poetry, the Berlin Prize, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
August Kleinzahler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1949. He is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a memoir, Cutty, One Rock. His collection The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, and Sleeping It Off in Rapid City won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. That same year he received a Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Francisco.
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9781800173088
The Devil Prefers Mozart
Anthony Burgess ed. Paul Phillips
January 2024
£30.00
SALES POINTS
Commonwealth Theophilus Kwek
ISBN 9781800174832
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th May 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 31st July 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1FMS Singapore
‘Kwek may well turn out to be one of the major poetic voices of the twenty-first century’ CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF BOOKS
• Kwek’s second Carcanet collection excavates histories of displacement, decolonisation, and development buried within Commonwealth, one of Singapore’s oldest neighbourhoods
• Draws on a wide array of documentary and oral history sources to address upheavals of individual and collective lives within one of the world’s most densely populated cities, reflecting on the global echoes of these relocations
• Takes as its starting-point the massive Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1968 – an event as deeply seared into the history of Kwek’s family as the nation’s own
• Weaves in intimate portrayals of a city under lockdown and the tensions between those who are required to ‘shelter in place’ and those whose lives are irrevocably uprooted by the same authorities
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Theophilus Kwek has published four full-length collections of poetry, most recently Moving House (2020). He has been shortlisted twice for the Singapore Literature Prize, and his pamphlet, The First Five Storms (2017), won the inaugural New Poets’ Prize. In 2023, he was the youngest writer and first Singaporean to be awarded the Cikada Prize by the Swedish Institute, for poetry that ‘defends the inviolability of life’. He is part of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024.
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9781784109639
Moving House
Theophilus Kwek
June 2020
£10.99
SALES POINTS
Pattern-book Éireann Lorsung
ISBN 9781800174856
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th May 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 31st July 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland
‘The highest and best of what poetry can do is change the way we see, and such is what Lorsung has done’ BOSTON GLOBE ON THE CENTURY
• Previous collection, The Century (Milkweed Editions), won the 2021 Maine Literary Award
• Born in America and now living in Ireland, Pattern-book is her UK debut and displays her moving and often humorous takes on suburban existence
• Tackles themes of grief, time, art, friendship, and the ways that language can and can’t hold what we lose
• Lorsung pays clear-eyed attention to the beauty and fleetingness of everyday life, exploring the mystery of human life: aging, mortality, love, and understanding
• Threaded with references to Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay, and John Berryman, whose suicide haunted her education on the campus where he died
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Éireann Lorsung was born and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She works and teaches in a field of images, objects, movement, and texts. Her collections include Music for Landing Planes By, Her book, and The Century (Milkweed Editions). She moved to Ireland in 2022 to become Lecturer/Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin.
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9781800171671
Poems and Satires
Edna St Vincent Millay September 2021
£14.99
SALES POINTS
Small Pointed Things Erica McAlpine
ISBN 9781800174771
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 24th April 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
‘The poems in The Country Gambler, McAlpine’s first collection, are intelligent and poised. They teach and delight.’
BEVERLEY BIE BRAHIC, TLS
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
• Funny and poignant in equal measure, human concerns are comically reimagined through the analogous “lives” of plants and animals — from snowdrops to love-lies-bleeding and manatees to warthogs
• McAlpine’s first Carcanet collection explores themes of marriage, motherhood, and family life, distilling everyday occurrences into moments of self-discovery
• Written in classic poetical forms but with accessibility in mind, these poems are sophisticated but not “difficult”
• She is Associate Professor of English at Oxford University and the A. C. Cooper Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Erica McAlpine is Associate Professor of English at Oxford University and the A. C. Cooper Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall. In addition to Small Pointed Things, she has published The Country Gambler (Shearsman, 2016), a collection of original poems with translations from Horace, and The Poet’s Mistake (Princeton, 2020), a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year and winner of the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Erica’s poems have appeared in magazines including The Atlantic, the TLS, The New York Review of Books, The Spectator, Slate, Stand, The Yale Review, and The American Scholar. She lives in Oxford with her husband and two children.
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9781800172678
This Afterlife: Selected Poems
A.E. Stallings
December 2022
£15.99
SALES POINTS
Plenitude Thomas McCarthy
ISBN 9781800174108
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th March 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th May 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland
‘magnificent, passionate and urgently prescient, Prophecy confronts mortality and materialism, asserting the power of art’ THE IRISH TIMES
‘McCarthy is a poet of lovingly observed small details’
• Plenitude is a collection of formal, lyrical poems of family, politics and memory, enriched by a sense of history - the precise histories of heritage gardens, of novelists such as Molly Keane, and Waterford neighbours who had gone to the Great War
• Explores the plenitude of the present moment in Ireland, where its unexpected prosperity is constantly prised open to reveal painful childhood memories and stressful political meditations
• A working gardener since early childhood, the poet’s thoughts return constantly to images of seasonal change within humanised landscapes
• Hailed as ‘the most important Irish poet of his generation’ by Dennis O’Driscoll
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin in 1954 where he was educated at the local Convent of Mercy and subsequently at University College Cork. He worked for many years at Cork City Libraries. He has won many awards for his poetry, including The Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the O’Shaughnessy Prize and the Ireland Funds Annual Literary Award. His first collection, The First Convention, was published by The Dolmen Press, Dublin, in 1978 and his tenth collection, Prophecy, was published by Carcanet Press in 2019. A former Editor of Poetry Ireland Review and The Cork Review, his journals, Memory, Poetry and the Party, were published by The Gallery Press in 2022 and his essays, Questioning Ireland, appeared in 2024.
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9781784107277
Prophecy
Thomas McCarthy April 2019
£9.99
SALES POINTS
Passion David Morley
ISBN 9781800174818
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th May 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 31st July 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
‘A rich and musical collection with a sharp political bite [...] FURY has an enormous range, and handles its politics with sensitivity and power’ SEÁN HEWITT, THE IRISH TIMES
• Previous collection FURY was a PBS Autumn Choice and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
• Passion is a glorious, supercharged collection focusing on love, nature, and Romany Traveller life
• Drawing on Romany language, storytelling and the speech of birds, Morley reflects on the ways in which the lives, stories, and fate of humans are twinned and entwined
• Explores growing up in two worlds (Romany and English), domestic violence and childhood trauma, stories of women in Romany camps, climate change and environmental devastation, and world-shaping discoveries by women scientists
• Morley is a Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Morley is an ecologist and naturalist by background. He studied Zoology at the University of Bristol and pursued research on acid rain. His awards for poetry include The Ted Hughes Award and a Cholmondeley Award. His last poetry collection FURY was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. David is a Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
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9781784109905
FURY
David Morley August 2020
£10.99
SALES POINTS
Guaracara Fawzia Muradali Kane
ISBN 9781800174870
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th June 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th August 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 128pp
TERRITORIES World
‘poems whose architecture ranges from domestic to labrynthine, and whose language sings on the page with an unusual power and subtlety’ WAYNE BURROWS ON TANTIE DIABLESSE
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1KJWWT Trinidad and Tobago
• This collection traces the poet’s ancestral Indo-Caribben legacy, following the history of the sugarcane industry and growing up in an oil refinery satellite town in south Trinidad
• The opening section, ‘Guaracara’, contains snapshot recollections of a childhood witnessing the effect and damage caused by the refinery to the Caribbean landscape and workers
• Memories of loss (of people and place) are woven into reflections as an adult who has moved to a new life, thousands of miles away across the Atlantic
• Central long sequence, ‘Let us mourn the death of King Sugar’, is written in Trini Creole - the poet’s first language
• Final sequence, ‘Ancestral Coda’, links the poet’s family oral histories, intertwined with her own experiences witnessing family rituals of more recent bereavements
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fawzia Muradali Kane is an architect and poet. Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, she came to the UK on a scholarship to study architecture. She now lives in London and is a director of KMK Architects. Her debut poetry collection Tantie Diablesse (Waterloo Press 2011) was longlisted for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. In 2014, Thamesis Publications produced her long sequence Houses of the Dead as an illustrated pamphlet. Her short story ‘Anguilla City’ was the 2018 City of Stories winner for Westminster in London. Her prose poem ‘Eric’ won 2nd prize in 2023’s National Poetry Competition.
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9781800174252
Polkadot Wounds
Anthony Vahni Capildeo
July 2024
£12.99
SALES POINTS
Fourth and Walnut
Jeremy Over
ISBN 9781800174603
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th February 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th April 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 88pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
‘Over’s is a poetry of endless curiosity and intellectual generosity’ LUKE KENNARD
• Over’s previous collection, Fur Coats in Tahiti, shortlisted for the 2020 Wales Poetry Book of the Year
• This, his fourth Carcanet collection, is an exuberant book of experimental poetry tracking the movements of a happily wandering mind with a sense of humour, whimsy and melancholy
• Explores the absurd possibility of being joyful in these serious and challenging times, and the joyful possibility of absurdity
• These poems encourage uplift, as in the words of John Ashbery, ‘I am aware of the pejorative associations of the word “escapist,” but I insist that we need all the escapism we can get and even that isn’t going to be enough.’
• Plays with form: part ‘how to’, part commonplace book, part journal, part collage, part essay, part doodle, parts of a children’s book with pictures, and of course poetry
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jeremy Over was born in Leeds in 1961. He now lives on a hill near Llanidloes in the middle of Wales. His poetry was first published in New Poetries II in 1999 and he has had three subsequent collections with Carcanet: A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese (2001), Deceiving Wild Creatures (2009) and Fur Coats in Tahiti (2019).
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9781784107635
Fur Coats in Tahiti
Jeremy Over July 2019
£9.99
LIVES AND LETTERS
SALES POINTS
Cancer Tom Raworth
ISBN 9781800174627
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 27th February 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 24th April 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 88pp
TERRITORIES World
‘Single-handedly, Tom Raworth has restored the value of quickness to English poetry’ BILL BERKSON
THEMA CODE DND Letters and Journals, DCF Poetry
• Cancer is the first publication of Raworth’s Logbook, Journal and Letters, a crucial missing item in this great poet’s oeuvre, orgininally intended to be published as one in the early 1970s
• Logbook presents as ten randomly salvaged, numbered pages from a sea voyage (published as a standalone in 1976), and is some of the poet’s most compelling prose-poetry
• Includes original versions of the Journal (January–March 1971) and the letters Raworth sent to Edward Dorn in April and May of the same year, available to readers for the very first time
• This was an extraordinary, pivotal time in Raworth’s writing, influenced by his experiences with cancer, his transatlantic friendships, and his own first visits to the US
• Features the original intended artwork on the front cover: a drawing of a skull by Michael Myers
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tom Raworth (1938-2017) was born in London. Between 1966 and 2017 he published more than fifty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations. His Collected Poems (2003) and As When: A Selection (2015) were published by Carcanet Press. He died in Sussex.
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9781784100339
As When: A Selection Tom Raworth ed. Miles Champion April 2015
£14.99
SALES POINTS
The Face in the Well Rebecca Watts
ISBN 9781800174580
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 30th January 2025
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 27th March 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
‘Such deliberate and careful contrariness is Watts all over, and it is, I think, unique in contemporary poetry’ CHRIS EDGOOSE, WOODBEE POET
• This third collection from award-winning poet Rebecca Watts is a vibrant, resonant exploration of childhood, desire, conflict and the animal nature of the self
• With complex and compelling music, and the poet’s disarming wit, these poems plumb the depths of our relationships with the world and with ourselves
• A 21st-century feminist deconstruction of the male poetic canon, where poems that offer a challenge to Yeats, Hughes, Heaney and O’Hara are interwoven with homages to Emily Brontë, Plath and other female role models
• Animals, as totems and spirit guides, swim, run and fly across the pages; Adults curate their own funerals, befriend spiders, try to love each other, and go to war
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca Watts’s debut poetry collection The Met Office Advises Caution (2016) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, shortlisted for the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize and named as one of the Guardian and Financial Times’s ‘Best Books of 2016’. Her second collection Red Gloves was published in 2020 and won a Gladstone’s Library Writers-in-Residence Award. Rebecca has completed Fellowships with the Hawthornden Foundation and the Royal Literary Fund,. In 2019 she edited Elizabeth Jennings: New Selected Poems for Carcanet. She currently lives in Cambridge, UK, where she works part-time in a library and as a freelance editor and tutor.
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9781784109554
Red Gloves
Rebecca Watts
June 2020
£10.99
