Sidetracks Bei Dao
ISBN 9781800174276
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 25th July 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 178pp
‘One
of the great poets of our time’ MICHAEL HOFMANN translated by J effrey Yang
‘the soul of post-Mao poetry’ YUNTE HUANG
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1FPC China
• Chinese poet Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen years is also his first long poem and his magnum opus: the artistic culmination of a lifetime devoted to the renewal and reinvention of language
• 34 cantos follow a prologue of heavenly questions, travelling forward and backward along the divergent paths of the poet’s wandering life through years of exile living in 6 countries
• All the currents of our times are reconfigured through the poet’s encounters with friends and strangers, as well as with other artists and ghosts, as he moves from place to place, unable to return home
ABOUT THE AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR
Bei Dao, pen name of Zhao Zhenkai, was born in Beijing in 1949. Forced into exile after the Tiananmen Massacre, he lived in Europe and the US until 2007, then settling in Hong Kong until, only recently, moving back to Beijing. Bei Dao is the author of seven books of poetry, a short-story collection, two essay collections, and an autobiography. His awards and honors include the Aragana Poetry Prize from the International Festival of Poetry in Casablanca and the Tuchosky Prize from Swedish PEN.
Jeffrey Yang is the author of four books of poetry and translator of Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies. He works as the Editor-At-Large for New Directions Publishing, and also edits titles for New York Review Books.
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9781784104627
City Gate, Open Up: A Memoir Bei Dao
April 2017
£12.99
SALES POINTS
Citizen Poet
New and Selected Essays Eavan Boland
ISBN 9781800171701
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £25.00
PUBLICATION DATE 24th September 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 440pp
‘one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century’ POETRY REVIEW edited by J ody A llen R andolph preface by H eather C lark
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
THEMA CODE DNL Literary Essays, 1DDR Ireland
• Boland’s ground-breaking essays and interviews, first collected in Object Lessons (2006), are included and enhanced by essays and major later writings addressing the changing nature of womanhood, poetry, and Ireland
• Includes renowned essays ‘In Search of a Nation’, ‘In Search of a Language’, ‘Outside History’ and ‘The Woman Poet: her dilemma’
• Boland’s posthumous collection of poems, The Historians, won the Costa Poetry Award 2020 and was a 2020 Book of the Year in the TLS, Guardian, Sunday Independent and Irish Times
• A great enabler of two generations of Irish poets drawn from the Republic and Northern Ireland, she also wrote some of the most iconic Irish poems of the last fifty years
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED)
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin, studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book appeared in 1967. She taught widely in Ireland and the United States. She was Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, a key figure for a generation of female and male writers, her Carcanet books include The Journey and other poems (1987), a Collected and a New Collected Poems The Historians, her posthumous collection was awarded the Costa Prize in 2020.
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9781784109141
The Historians
Eavan Boland October 2020
£10.99
CARCANET POETRY
SALES POINTS
Polkadot Wounds
Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo
ISBN 9781800174252
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 25th July 2024
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th September 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 100pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 5PS LGBTQ+
‘I would follow [Anthony] Vahni Capildeo’s poetry to the ends of the Earth, I just think that they’re amazing... I love this book very much.’ JEN CAMPBELL ON ‘LIKE A TREE, WALKING’
• Previous collection Like a Tree, Walking was a PBS Choice and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2022
• This fifth Carcanet collection from the Trinidadian, Forward Prize-winning poet brings home the delight and frustration of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times
• Inspired by travelling and working on commissions: collection title inspired by the stones of the ruined Norman castle in Launceston and the wounds depicted in the statue of the local martyr, St Cuthbert Mayne
• Explores landscapes and memory, transformations of the self, and plays on Dante’s Divine Comedy to explore dreams, grief and untimely deaths (both during the pandemic and in queer and overseas communities)
• Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of York
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Their numerous books and pamphlets are distinguished by deliberate engagement with independent and small presses. Their work has been recognized with the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors) and the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Recent commissions include research-based Windrush poems for Poet in the City and for the Royal Society of Literature. Capildeo served as a judge for the Jhalak Prize (2023). They live in Edinburgh.
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9781800171954
Like a Tree, Walking
Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo
November 2021
£11.99
SALES POINTS
Collected Poems Mimi Khalvati
ISBN 9781800173330
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £30.00
PUBLICATION DATE 28th November 2024
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th January 2025
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 600pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
RECIPIENT OF THE 2023 KING’S GOLD MEDAL FOR POETRY
‘Intricate, sensuous and vulnerable... Mimi Khalvati’s work will endure’
MONIZA ALVI
• Previous collection Afterwardness was a PBS Wild Card and a Sunday Times Book of the Year
• This Collected Poems spans her nine collections and includes previously uncollected poems
• Her poetry resists the stereotype of contemporary cultural diversity, insisting on a complete belonging to the culture that shaped her imagination and language
• A preface explores the cultural pressures her poetry resists
• Khalvati is the celebrated founder of The Poetry School (London) and multi-prize winner for her poetry
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and sent to boarding school on the Isle of Wight at the age of six. She has lived most of her life in London. She has published nine collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2007, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991–2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, and The Weather Wheel, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a book of the year in The Independent. She has held fellowships at the International Writing Program in Iowa, the American School in London and at the Royal Literary Fund, and her awards include a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and a major Arts Council Writer’s Award. She is the founder of the Poetry School and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of The English Society.
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9781784107994
Afterwardness
Mimi Khalvati
October 2019
£9.99 CARCANET
SALES POINTS
Why Are You Shouting? James Womack
ISBN 9781800174535
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £12.99
PUBLICATION DATE 25th July 2024
‘Homunculus is a deliciously grouchy howl at the indignities of the ageing body, studded with great jokes and brilliant shards of pain’ TLS
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 26th September 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 100pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
• Previous collection Homunculus was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
• Fourth collection from award-winning poet and translator James Womack explores how we form connections with one another and the environment with wit and humour
• Written in the shadow of the climate crisis and the pandemic years, these poems work and play to find points of hope and unity against a shared background of disruption and collapse
• Views the collapsing modern world with ancient eyes: the shadow of Cassandra, the Trojan princess who was given the gift of prophecy but condemned to have no one believe her words, falls across the whole collection
• Teaches Modern & Medieval Languages at Fitzwilliam College (University of Cambridge)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Womack was born in 1979. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry with Carcanet: Misprint (2012), On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017) and Homunculus (2020). He is also an award-winning translator, and has translated widely from Spanish and Russian, including works by Vladimir Mayakovsky (Vladimir Mayakovsky and Other Poems, Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Winter 2016), Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Manuel Vilas and Camilo José Cela. He lives in Cambridge.
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9781784109912
Homunculus
James Womack
September 2020
£10.99
SALES POINTS
Library Lives
A Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands Stella Halkyard
ISBN 9781800174375
FORMAT Hardback (full colour)
RRP £25.00
PUBLICATION DATE 26th September 2024
foreword by A lberto M anguel
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th November 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 244pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE AJC Photographs; WQH Local history; NHB History
• Marks the 125th anniversary of the John Rylands Research Institute and Library in Manchester
• This rich offering plots the lifelong love affair between one particular bookworm and the John Rylands Library
• Selected from Halkyard’s popular ‘Pictures from a Library’ and ‘Archive Corner’ features in PN Review over the last two decades, these essays have been brought together for the first time and put into productive dialogue with each other
• Celebrates material culture and demonstrates its ability to tell stories across time and space, from the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, to John Donne’s shroud, eighteenth-century Chinese papermaking, Elizabeth Bishop’s letters, and plastic surgery in sixteenth-century Italy
• Includes full-colour images to accompany the 50 objects featured
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stella Halkyard, a dyed in the wool archivist and omnivorous bookworm, has worked in libraries and archives across Manchester since 1984, including: the Portico, Chethams, the Documentary Photography Archive and Manchester Public Libraries. The lion’s share of her career, however, has been spent in the John Rylands Library where she cultivated the literary archives and creative arts collections and nurtured their readership and use. She is also currently a Trustee of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation.
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SALES POINTS
Conjurors Poems
Julian Orde
ISBN 9781800174559
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 26th September 2024
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 28th November 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry
edited by J ames K eery
‘she ha[d] a beautiful ear, and a supply of unforced humour’ WILLIAM EMPSON, CRITIC & POET
• Orde was a key figure in the recent Carcanet anthology of the mid-century, Apocalypse
• This is the long overdue first collection by a significant woman poet of the mid-century (191774), presenting over sixty poems (most previously unpublished), with a biographical and critical introduction
• Includes her most famous and classic long poem Conjurors
• Associated with W.S. Graham, Dylan Thomas and David Wright, close friends, Orde’s quicksilvery, surrealist poetry succeeds in carving out its own space
• Orde’s poetry was selected for reading and discussion during the Zoom launch of Apocalypse by the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, and has attracted considerable attention
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECEASED) & EDITOR
Julian Orde (1917-74) was a granddaughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington, raised in London and Paris, and presented at court as a debutante. She rebelled. She achieved distinction and professional success as a poet, a writer of short stories, an actor, a playwright, a screenwriter and a copywriter. She published around twenty poems in the Forties, but no more in her lifetime. Greville Press published a pamphlet edition of her classic long poem, Conjurors, in 1988.
James Keery lives in Culcheth and teaches English in Wigan. He has published a collection of poems, That Stranger, The Blues, and has edited Apocalypse (Carcanet, 2020) and the Collected Poems of Burns Singer.
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9781784108182
Apocalypse: An Anthology ed. James Keery November 2020
£19.99
CARCANET
SALES POINTS
Apple Thieves Beverley Bie Brahic
ISBN 9781800174290
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024
‘it is [the] attention to the everyday stuff of life that makes Brahic’s poetry shine’ SUZANNAH V. EVANS, TLS
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 31st October 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 86pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDF France
• Brahic’s 2019 pamphlet Catch and Release won the Wigtown Book Festival Alistair Reid Pamphlet Prize
• Previous collection White Sheets (2012) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Hunting the Boar (2016) was a PBS Recommendation
• This fifth collection from the award-winning poet and translator delights in the pleasures of nature, art, and the body, writing with an affection and tenderness for human fragility
• Poems are situated in Paris or in her husband’s native Provence, relishing the erotic and sensuous moments to be found in everyday life
• Tackles a wide range of subjects: human migrations, time, history and memory
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Beverley Bie Brahic was born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up in Vancouver. Apple Thieves is her fifth collection of poetry after Catch and Release, winner of the 2019 Wigtown Book Festival Alistair Reid Pamphlet Prize; The Hotel Eden; The Hunting of the Boar, a 2016 PBS Recommendation; White Sheets, a 2013 Forward Prize finalist for Best Collection and PBS Recommendation; and Against Gravity. Her many translations include books by Yves Bonnefoy, Hélène Cixous and Charles Baudelaire. She has received a Canada Council for the Arts Writing Grant. She lives in Paris, France.
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9781784106102
The Hotel Eden Beverley Bie Brahic August 2018
£9.99
SALES POINTS
Partita and A Winter in Zürau Gabriel Josipovici
ISBN 9781800174313
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £14.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024
‘Gabriel Josipovici is one of our most brilliant writers - every new book is an event to look forward to’
DEBORAH LEVY MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE
U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 31st October 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 288pp
TERRITORIES World
THEMA CODE FBA Modern Fiction, DNBL Biography: Writers
• In this hybrid work by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright, two strands of his work combine in a daring and intriguing juxtaposition of fiction and fact
• Partita is a melodramatic and enigmatic fiction: Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. He falls in love, follows its chimera - and who is the woman in the bathtub? Is she dead?
• A Winter in Zürau is a biographical and critical exploration of eight crucial months of anguish and reflection in Franz Kafa’s life that resulted in the famous Aphorisms
• The two works are curiously complementary. Both figures, in searching for an escape, undertake journeys of self-discovery
• Josipovici has been dubbed ‘one of the best writers now at work in the English language’ by The Guardian
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and he taught at the University of Sussex from 1963 to 1998. He is the author of 19 novels, 3 volumes of short stories, 8 critical works, a Covid diary and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.
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9781800172036
100 Days
Gabriel Josipovici October 2021
£19.99
SALES POINTS
Scattered Snows, to the North Carl Phillips
ISBN 9781800174337
FORMAT Paperback
RRP £11.99
PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024
SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp
‘Phillips operates in an altogether superior league’ CAROL RUMENS, THE POETRY REVIEW
TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada
THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1KBB USA
• Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, his first UK publication, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Phillips follows up his highly successful 2022 first UK reading tour with a radical new collection
• Explores perception, distortion and revelation: the unreliability of a knowledge that’s rooted in the (always unstable) human memory
• These poems look through the window of the past to understand the essential sameness of the human condition
• Phillips was Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis for over thirty years
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carl Phillips is the author of 16 books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Carcanet, 2022), which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). After more than thirty years of teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, he lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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9781800172296
Then the War
Carl Phillips February 2022
£14.99
