Carcanet new titles June-December 2024

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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

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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, 96pp

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

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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, 128pp

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

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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, 192pp

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

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Collected Poems Mimi Khalvati

ISBN 9781800173330

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £18.99

RECIPIENT OF THE 2023 KING’S GOLD MEDAL FOR POETRY

‘Intricate, sensuous and vulnerable... Mimi Khalvati’s work will endure’

MONIZA ALVI

PUBLICATION DATE 28th November 2024

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th January 2025

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 244pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry

• 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

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Library Lives A

Constellation of Books and Objects from the Rylands

Stella Halkyard

ISBN 9781800174375

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £16.99

PUBLICATION DATE 26th September 2024

introduction 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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PN Review, a poetry journal running for over 50 years

Six issues/year. Annual subscriptions available, or £9.99/issue. www.pnreview.co.uk

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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

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Billy ‘Nibs’ Buckshot: The Complete Works

John Gallas

ISBN 9781800174436

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £12.99

PUBLICATION DATE 31st October 2024

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 12th December 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 128pp

TERRITORIES World

‘John Gallas is not merely a lyric master, but a master of meaning’ COFFEE TIME REVIEWS

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1MBN New Zealand/Aotearoa

• Thirteenth Carcanet collection by the prolific and experimental New Zealand poet John Gallas

• Winner of the Wells Festival Literature Prize 2023 for his poem ‘horsebreezes’

• This new collection of 200 tankas has no Great Purpose, apart from exploring and expanding upon the contradictory Meanings of Life

• These 31-syllable poems are joyful, humorous, contagious (and at times wonderfully confusing), ranging from dandelions to death, and from goats to gunfighters

• Gallas wanders the corners of his two homelands (Aotearoa and England) in poems that resist interpretation and instead merely ‘are’

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John Gallas was born in New Zealand in 1950. He came to England in the 1970s to study Old Icelandic at Oxford and has since lived and worked throughout the UK as a bottlewasher, archaeologist, and teacher. His books are published by Cold Hub Press (NZ) and Agraphia (Sweden). The Extasie (2021) was his twelfth Carcanet collection. He also co-translated Rhapsodies 1831 by Petrus Borel, also published by Carcanet. Bill Manhire described him as ‘the greatest New Zealand poet no one has ever heard of.’ He currently lives in Leicestershire.

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9781800170858

The Extasie

John Gallas

April 2021

£12.99

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Tablets

Secrets of the Clay Dunya Mikhail

ISBN 9781800174399

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £12.99

PUBLICATION DATE 26th September 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 128pp

TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth ex. Canada

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry

‘her voice is the inescapable voice of Arab poetry today.’

PIERRE JORIS

• Previous collection In Her Feminine Sign (2019) was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card

• Mikhail is a former journalist for the Baghdad Observer and a recipient of the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing

• This new collection transforms the world’s first symbols (Sumerian glyphs carved into clay tablets) into matters of our modern everyday life

• These short poems, which can be read as Iraqi haiku, are accompanied by the poet’s drawings inspired by the ancient Sumerian images

• Mikhail practices two layers of translation in these tablets: firstly, from words in one language to another (Arabic to English), and secondly, from words to images

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet and writer. She is a laureate of the UNESCO Sharja Prize for Arab Culture and has received fellowships from the United States Artists, the Guggenheim, and Kresge. The United Nations granted her Human Rights Watch Award for Freedom of Writing and Arab America listed her as ‘one of ten modern Arab writers who should make Arabs proud.’ She currently works as a special lecturer of Arabic and Poetry at Oakland University in Michigan.

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9781784108533

In Her Feminine Sign

Dunya Mikhail August 2019 £10.99

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The Shark Nursery

Mary O’Malley

ISBN 9781800174146

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 27th June 2024

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 86pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland

‘O’Malley is a true artist in sketching the beautiful, small details’ EAVAN BOLAND

• New collection from a winner of the Éigse Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018, underpinned by her long history of environmental activism

• Consists of three interlocking sections: poems directly arising from lockdown, those about lives lived in an online reality, and animal poems

• The world’s at a precarious tipping point; trust in language is breaking down. The poet fuses the mythic with the modern and gives voices to the wolf, the seal and shark, finding new language against peril

• Includes a poem commissioned by Poetry Ireland at the request of the State for a reading at a National Commemoration Ceremony to signal the end of lockdown in Ireland

• Includes a sonnet that has been inscribed on stone and placed at the entrance to the Claddagh Basin and Galway Bay

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary O’Malley was born in Connemara and educated at University College Galway. She is a member of Aosdána and has received a Hennessey Award, the O’Shaugnessey Award. She reads and teaches in Universities throughout Europe and America, and in Ireland. She spends time in Paris and Spain and lives in the West of Ireland. She is deeply committed to education and the preservation of marine life and culture.

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9781784107956

Gaudent Angeli

Mary O’Malley

September 2019

£9.99

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Ambush at Still Lake Caroline Bird

ISBN 9781800174122

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 27th June 2024

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 84pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 5PS LGBTQ+

‘Beneath the cinematic veneer of Bird’s latest, masterful work lies a deep emotional resonance, illuminating the transformative power of love.’

ROGER ROBINSON

• Previous collection The Air Year won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize and the Costa Prize

• Rookie: Selected Poems (2022) was longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023

• This new collection charts marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery: the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness, after the happy ending

• Darkly humorous, complex, often-ugly poems about parenting and the complexities of lesbian blended families

• The clash of domesticity and horror, absurdity and heartfelt confession, told with her usual comic and entertaining style: a world where mums impale themselves on pogo-sticks, serial killers rattle around in the basement, and baby monitors are haunted by someone else’s baby

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Caroline Bird has seven previous volumes published by Carcanet. A two-time winner of the Foyles Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. In 2023, she won a Cholmondeley Award. Her Selected Poems, Rookie, was published in 2022. She lives in Kent.

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9781800171862

Rookie: Selected Poems Caroline Bird May 2022

£12.99

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From Base Materials

Jenny Lewis

ISBN 9781800174160

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 27th June 2024

‘Jenny Lewis is a lyricist for the end times. Technically flawless and blunt, this collection is a fine example of how poetry helps humanity cope.’

CLAIRE CROWTHER

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry

• New collection from the author of Carcanet’s bestselling Gilgamesh Retold (2018)

• These poems are apocalyptic and sensory, coming from a place of hurt and love, of the human spirit struggling to transcend ‘base matter’ and make sense of the world

• The poet looks beyond Western culture to world literature, including translations from Arabic, Russian and a topical reimagining of the Persian classic, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

• Addresses harsh contemporary issues including violence toward women, love in old age and surviving cancer

• Lewis teaches poetry at Oxford University

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She was educated at the Royal Masonic School (Weybridge and Rickmansworth) and then at the Ruskin School of Art and, later, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She gained an MPhil in Poetry from the University of South Wales and a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. Jenny has had seven plays and poetry cycles performed with music and dance at major UK theatres including the Royal Festival Hall and Pegasus Theatre, Oxford where she was a Core Writing Tutor for 20 years. She has published four collections including Taking Mesopotamia (Carcanet, 2014) and Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet, 2018), which was a New Statesman Book of the Year, a LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and Carcanet’s first ever audiobook.

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9781784106140

Gilgamesh Retold

Jenny Lewis October 2018

£12.99

CARCANET POETRY

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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, 128pp

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

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Scattered Snows, to the North Carl Phillips

ISBN 9781800174337

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 29th August 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 64pp

‘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

SALES POINTS

Emotional Support Horse Claudine Toutoungi

ISBN 9781800174474

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 31st October 2024

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 12th December 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry

‘Two Tongues is a collection of singularly energetic grace’ W. N. HERBERT

• Previous collection Two Tongues won the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections

• Toutoungi’s third collection is a tragi-comic journal of grief that, out of the chaos of bereavement, her failing eyesight and eco-stress, blends poems of startling wit and hard-won joy

• Part soulful, part self-help, the poems veer between the droll and the despairing, mirroring the choppiness of a self at sea

• The ‘self’ is accompanied throughout by a host of other species, from earthworms to wolfounds and flamingos to Konic ponies, the poems flickering with light and life

• A trained actor, Toutoungi worked as a BBC Radio Drama producer and adapted her play Slipping for BBC Radio 4

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Claudine Toutoungi is a poet and playwright. She was born in Warwickshire, studied English and French at Trinity College, Oxford and has worked as an actor, a BBC radio drama producer, English teacher, and Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for Newnham and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Carcanet published her debut collection Smoothie in 2017, followed by Two Tongues (2020). Her poetry has been translated into Spanish and her live poetry contributions to festivals include Tongue Fu, Poetry East and appearances on BBC Radio 4. Her plays for theatre include Bit Part and Slipping (Stephen Joseph Theatre) and her many audio dramas for BBC Radio 4 include Deliverers, The Inheritors and The Voice in my Ear. She lives in Cambridge.

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9781800170001

Two Tongues

Claudine Toutoungi

October 2020

£10.99

SALES POINTS

Invisible Dog Fabio Morábito

ISBN 9781800174511

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £12.99

PUBLICATION DATE 28th November 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp

translated by R ichard G wyn

TERRITORIES UK & Commonwealth excluding Canada

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1KLCM Mexico

• The first full UK collection of poems by one of Mexico’s leading, award-winning writers

• Egyptian-Italian born, Morábito writes in his second language and has published five collections over four decades

• The fifty-four poems in this book were selected from these collections by the poet and translator in collaboration

• Entertaining and laugh out loud, Morábito’s poetry is marked by a humane irony and a philosophical resignation to the vagaries of his society and the irresistible tyrannies of time

• Addresses issues of migration, duality, language loss and the mutability of identity

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fabio Morábito was born to Italian parents in Alexandria in 1955 and has lived in Mexico City since the age of fifteen. He has published five collections of poetry, including De lunes todo el año, which won the Aguascalientes National Prize for Poetry’in 1991 and Lotes baldíos, which was awarded the 1995 Carlos Pellicer prize. His poetry and short stories have established him as one of Mexico’s best-known writers over the past 30 years. He has compiled and retold a book of 125 oral Mexican short stories, Cuentos populares mexicanos (2014), which won the ‘White Raven Prize’ in 2015. His novel El lector a domicilio (2018) was awarded the Xavier Villaurrutia Award. He is also a prolific translator from Italian, and his own books have been widely translated.

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9781800171978

It Must Be a Misunderstanding Coral Bracho

tr. Forrest Gander

July 2022

£15.99

SALES POINTS

One Little Room Peter McDonald

ISBN 9781800174498

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE 28th November 2024

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 30th January 2025

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland

‘McDonald is often impressively adept at using varied metres for cadence, musicality, tension. He resists the over-dramatic, but is a poet of fierce feeling’ TLS

• McDonald’s eighth collection effects transformations of memory and history, loss and love

• These poems inhabit the surroundings of a Belfast childhood and the sequence ‘Centenary’ (100 years of public and private history) represents an important new contribution to the poetic understanding of Northern Ireland

• Includes original takes on literary history, from Yeats and MacNeice to Ralph Waldo Emerson and the French poet St. John Perse

• Includes two sets of ‘paraphrases’ on two of the Psalms: these meditations draw on the Biblical texts and personal experience, touching on the public controversy surrounding the former dean of Christ Church, Oxford (Martin Percy)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter McDonald was born in Belfast in 1962. His first book of poetry, Biting the Wax, was published in 1989, and since then seven volumes of his verse have appeared, including his Collected Poems (2012). He has written four books of literary criticism, including Mistaken Identities: Poetry and Northern Ireland (1997) and Sound Intentions: The Workings of Rhyme in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (2012), and has edited Louis MacNeice’s Collected Poems (2007) and most recently three volumes of the Longman Poems of W.B. Yeats. He is Emeritus Professor of British and Irish Poetry in Oxford University, and an Emeritus Student of Christ Church, Oxford.

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The Gifts of Fortune

Peter McDonald May 2020

£11.99

Carcanet Press, Alliance House, 4th Floor, 30 Cross Street, Manchester, M2 7AQ 9781784109431

SALES POINTS

Dante’s Purgatorio Philip Terry

ISBN 9781800174450

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £16.99

PUBLICATION DATE 31st October 2024

‘the Dantesque pitch is right and propulsive [...] the balance between language and lingo, the allusive and the obscene just right’ SEAMUS HEANEY ON TERRY’S ‘INFERNO’

U.S.A. PUBLICATION DATE 12th December 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 220pp

TERRITORIES World

THEMA CODE DCF Poetry, 1DDR Ireland, 1DDU-GB-EAX Essex

• Terry’s reinvention of Dante’s Inferno won the Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship Award

• This is a reinvention of Dante’s Purgatorio in the spirit of Joyce’s Ulysses, where Dante’s cast is replaced with our contemporaries, from Allen Ginsberg and Samuel Beckett to Putin and Boris Johnson (the figure of Beatrice is replaced by Marina Warner)

• Experimental and irreverently funny, it remains accessible to the everyday reader

• The action is relocated from Dante’s island of Purgatory to Mersea Island in Essex

• The guiding figure of Virgil is reimagined as Ted Berrigan, one-time Essex writer-in-residence and a poet who had himself imagined the underworld

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet, translator, and a writer of fiction. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Michèle Métail and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel tapestry, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His poetry and experimental translations include Oulipoems, Dante’s Inferno, and Dictator, a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Globish. The Penguin Book of Oulipo, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s The Lascaux Notebooks, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, in April 2022. He is currently Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Essex.

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9781847772206

Dante’s Inferno

Philip Terry June 2014

£12.95

SALES POINTS

Sidetracks Bei Dao

ISBN 9781800174276

FORMAT Paperback

RRP £14.99

PUBLICATION DATE 25th July 2024

SIZE 216 x 135mm, 144pp

‘One

of the great poets of our time’ MICHAEL HOFFMAN 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