Carcanet Spring 2021

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CARCANET POETRY (FIRST COLLECTION)

Thinking with Trees Jason Allen-Paisant ISBN 9781800171138 FORMAT Paperback RRP £10.99 PUBLICATION DATE 24th June 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 128pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets;

1KJWJ Jamaica

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Debut collection about Blackness, nature, and landscape from a contributor to Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology

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A Jamaican lens on the British landscape and British ways of life

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Explores the environmental conditions underpinning Black identity while urging us to imagine alternative futures

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Inspired by the poet’s childhood growing up with his grandmother in Coffee Grove, a small village in Jamaica where he learned to ‘think with the elements’

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Lecturer in Caribbean Poetry & Decolonial Thought and Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jason Allen-Paisant is from a village called Coffee Grove in Manchester, Jamaica. At present, he’s a lecturer in Caribbean Poetry & Decolonial Thought in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he’s also the Director of the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. He serves on the editorial board of Callaloo: Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters. He holds a doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford, and he speaks seven languages. He lives in Leeds.

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CARCANET CLASSICS

Parallel Movement of the Hands: five unfinished longer works by John Ashbery

John Ashbery

edited by Emi ly S ki l l i n gs

ISBN 9781800170933 FORMAT Paperback

‘John Ashbery writes poetry like no one else.’

RRP £16.99 PUBLICATION DATE 24th June 2021

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SIZE 216 x 135mm, 180pp TERRITORIES World ex. US & Canada BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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Collects five long, serial poems which John Ashbery left unfinished and were included as part of the archive deposited in Harvard’s Houghton Library

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“In-progress and realised” as their editor Emily Skillings puts it, these poems are characteristic of the late work of this American master

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In these poems, Carl Czerny rubs shoulders with the Hardy Boys, Chekhov with children’s plays, all of them integrated into Ashbery’s characteristically generous, omnivorous forms

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The most decorated American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize, National Book Award, Feltrinelli Prize, etc, and was Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (DECE A SED) John Ashbery was born in 1927 in Rochester, New York. At Harvard he met Kenneth Koch and Frank O’Hara and they became known as the ‘New York School of Poets.’ In 1955 Ashbery went to France on a Fulbright Scholarship and spent much of the next decade there, including several years as art critic of the International Herald Tribune and Paris correspondent of ArtNews magazine. His 2008 translation of Pierre Martory’s The Landscapist was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation. Ashbery has produced over twenty volumes of poetry including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. He passed away in September 2017.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784105259 Collected Poems 1991-2000 John Ashbery ed. Mark Ford Jan 2018 £20.00

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CARCANET POETRY

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, 220pp 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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Forty Names

‘reminded us of the profound act of witness that poetry can be’

Parwana Fayyaz ISBN 9781800171077

SHAHIDA B ARI,

FORMAT Paperback

FORWARD PRIZE JUDGE

RRP £10.99 PUBLICATION DATE 29th July 2021

U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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Debut collection that recall the lives, experiences, and bravery of women in Afghanistan

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Includes the 2019 Forward Prize-winning poem ‘Forty Names’ about honour killings

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Earned her BA in Comparative Lit and Creative Writing (Poetry) under the supervision of the late Eavan Boland

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Contributor to Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology (January 2021)

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Follows the long tradition of storytelling in Afghan culture, passing along stories told to the poet as a child that contain lessons for a young Afghan girl... and the poet’s passionate defiance of quietly accepting hardship

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Parwana Fayyaz was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1990. From the age of seven to sixteen, she was raised in Quetta, Pakistan. After finishing high school in Kabul, she enrolled in an English language immersion program and subsequently began her undergraduate studies in Chittagong, Bangladesh. She transferred to Stanford University and earned both her B.A. in 2015, with a major in Comparative Literature (with Honors) and a minor in Creative Writing (Poetry). She moved to Cambridge University to pursue a PhD in Persian Studies at Trinity College in September of 2016 and took up Junior Research Fellowship as the Carmen Blacker Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge University in October 2020.

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Mother Muse

‘[Gooidson] has created a body of enchanting, intelligent and socially aware poetry in the authentic registers of her own tongue’

Lorna Goodison ISBN 9781800171060 FORMAT Paperback RRP £10.99

SIMON ARMITAGE

PUBLICATION DATE 24th June 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 72pp TERRITORIES World excluding Canada BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets;

1KJWJ Jamaica

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Goodison won The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2019 and The Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry 2018

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New collection from Jamaica’s poet laureate, who has a strong following in Britain & Ireland

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Passionate and political, this collection brings a lifetime’s craft to bear on Feminism, sisterhood, Windrush, and Black Lives Matter

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Poetry that engages with Jamaican culture and its musicians, artists and mystics

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Professor of English and of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan

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Divides her time between Toronto, Canada and Jamaica

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). She has won numerous awards including the Henry Russel Award for Exceptional Creative Work from the University of Michigan. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784106386 Collected Poems Lorna Goodison July 2017 £19.99

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CARCANET POETRY

Grand Larcenies Translations and Imitations of Ten Dutch Poets ISBN 9781800171329

edited by P.C. Evans

FORMAT Paperback RRP £14.99 PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th October 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 180pp 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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LITTLE ISLAND PRESS

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, 220pp 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 POETRY

Virga Togara Muzanenhamo ‘this poet has a rare gift’

ISBN 9781800171435 FORMAT Paperback

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RRP £10.99 PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 28th October 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 80pp 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

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CARCANET CLASSICS

The Owner of the Sea: Three Inuit Sequences Retold

Richard Price

‘Richard Price’s poetry is inventive, sometimes dazzling, but never merely showy’

ISBN 9781800171176 FORMAT Paperback RRP £12.99

C AROL RUMENS

PUBLICATION DATE 24th June 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 26th August 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 160pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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Retells two of the great story cycles of Inuit culture (Sedna the Sea Goddess and Kiviuq the Hunter) and ‘bridges’ them with a third, shorter, story (The Old Woman Who Changed Herself Into A Man)

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One of the first times these ancient stories have been made available as poetry

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Tackles modern themes of feminism, difficult masculinity, and threat to the environment amidst sex, violence and drama

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Previous collection, Moon for Sale, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year 2017 and was a Guardian Book of the Year 2017

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Price is Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library, London

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Richard Price has published over a dozen books of poetry since his debut in 1993, including Lucky Day (2005), which was a Guardian Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Since then, every Carcanet collection he has published has been shortlisted for a major prize. In 2012 his poem ‘Hedge Sparrows’ was chosen to represent Team GB in the Olympics project ‘The Written World’. A year later, Small World, won the Creative Scotland Award in his home country.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781784102845 Moon for Sale Richard Price January 2017 £9.99

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CARCANET POETRY

Veii

‘At one point I started marking my favourite poems, but I like so many of them that I gave up’

Robert Wells ISBN 9781800171244

THOM GUNN, ON

FORMAT Paperback

‘COLLEC TED POEMS AND

RRP £10.99

TRANSL ATIONS’

PUBLICATION DATE 29th July 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 96pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets

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New collection by a much-loved English translator and poet of the countryside, Robert Wells has enjoyed a literary career spanning over 50 years

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A mature poet at the height of his craft tackles themes of age and memories of youth with an intense, visual power

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Combines personal memory with the common memories of a culture - England, France and Italy are provinces (at best) of a single country and culture

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Poet is an acclaimed translator of Virgil’s Georgics and Theocritus’ The Idylls

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A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman, a teacher, and in publishing. He lives in France. Carcanet has published his translations of Virgil’s Georgics and The Idylls of Theocritus, and five volumes of his poetry, the latest being Collected Poems and Translations (2009).

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781847770110 Collected Poems and Translations Robert Wells September 2009 £14.95

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CARCANET POETRY

Records of an Incitement to Silence ‘good poetry which Gregory Woods

takes as its subject a frank and unsentimental homosexuality. What an enviable talent Woods has’

ISBN 9781800171282 FORMAT Paperback RRP £12.99

THOM GUNN

PUBLICATION DATE 29th July 2021 U.S. A . PUBLICATION DATE 30th September 2021 SIZE 216 x 135mm, 112pp TERRITORIES World BIC CODE DCF Poetry by Individual Poets; 5SG Of Gay interest

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New collection written within the context of Woods’ career as a gay cultural historian and literary critic

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Poems exploring a world united in strife and riven by desire

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Amidst convulsive public events beyond their control, individuals seek, find and lose love

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Includes the poem ‘Dream Midnight’ which is an AIDS elegy

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Professor Emeritus at Nottingham Trent University, where in 1998 he became the first Professor of Gay & Lesbian Studies in the UK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gregory Woods is the author of Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987), A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998) and Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World (2016), all from Yale University Press. He began his teaching career at the University of Salerno in 1980. In 1998 he became the first Professor of Gay & Lesbian Studies in the UK, at Nottingham Trent University, where he is still Professor Emeritus.

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A L S O AVA I L A B L E 9781847770783 An Ordinary Dog Gregory Woods June 2011 £9.95