Carcanet Classics

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from h...

A meditation on the nature of artifice and on the self, this collection of beautifully crafted poems addresses themes of love, lust, glamour, and d...

DescriptionThe poems in Joy mark a new departure for Sasha Dugdale, who expresses in poetry a hitherto 'silent' dialogue which she began as an edit...

A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us fo...

In Collected Poems, one of Ireland's best-loved contemporary poets brings together poems from her six principal collections, Oar (1990), The Parchm...

DescriptionZoology is Gillian Clarke's ninth Carcanet collection, following her T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted Ice. The collection opens with a glim...

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living ...

The first collection of verse from the author of }A Clockwork Orange{.

Eleventh Carcanet collection from New Zealand poet John Gallas, following 2017's The Little Sublime Comedy.

The second English language translation from the major Iraqi poet, reflecting on the experience of exile and the idea of cultural assimilation. Kar...

Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Poetry Aw...

This second collection, following her 2017 debut Crossing the Mirror Line, explores absences, migrations and elusive histories.

Prize-winning Iranian-born poet and celebrated founder of The Poetry School (London) explores her diverse culture in a series of brilliant `orienta...

A new collection from Eavan Boland, a pioneering figure in Irish poetry who has been credited with inspiring a generation. This will be her final c...

DescriptionZohar Atkins's first collection Nineveh takes its modernist bearings from Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan, and Yehudah Amichai; but also, merri...

A preeminent translation of a defining work of late nineteenth century French literature.

DescriptionIn Discipline, Jane Yeh depicts a haunting and hilarious variety of lives, from an endangered young rhinoceros to the denizens of the 19...

DescriptionYves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This second and final volume of the Yves Bonnefoy R...

This third collection from award-winning poet and translator James Womack is a long poem remaking the Elegies of the 'last Roman poet' Maximianus, ...

This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem).

From one of the editors of Carcanet's anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry (Songs We Learn from Trees, 2020), comes a collections about growing up...

The May-June 2021 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.Editor(s): Andrew Latimer

DescriptionIn Girl, Rebecca Goss considers the emotional and physical connections women make to the world around them. The poems interrogate and ce...

DescriptionLater Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one...

The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular Writing Challenges literature podcast, this is Morley's most ...

This debut collection from a shortlistee for the 2018 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem is a contentious love letter to a flawed world.

New collection and Carcanet's ninth title by the most celebrated living American poet, Jorie Graham.

In this debut collection from an exciting new voice and contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VII, Horrex explores Brexit, austerity, social housi...

Zimbabwean poet Togara Muzanenhamo's third collection captures events and stories told through the twentieth century, encased beneath an ancient, f...

DescriptionJenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity...

A tender, exuberant and deliciously dark exploration of our desire to communicate, whatever the cost.

The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and various. This verse ...

Features poems that come from the rhythms of speech and the stuff of daily life: work and love, seasons and cities, and his writing is alive with t...

The hotly anticipated new collection by an energetic young Scottish poet

A new collection from this widely-celebrated and much-loved poet.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdAuthor(s): Alison BrackenburyNumber of pages: 104Publ...

The September-October 2021 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdNumber of pages...

The November-December 2021 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdNumber of pages...

Mina Gorji's second collection is full of creatures and their habitats, building on the considerable achievement of her debut, The Art of Escape.Pu...

Jay Gao's debut collection Imperium introduces a compelling innovative talent.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdAuthor(s): Jay GaoNumber of pages: 92Pub...

The richness of family life is at the centre of this assured and utterly open book by one of the UK's best-loved poets and teachers.Publisher: Carc...

The January-February 2022 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdNumber of pages:...

The March-April 2022 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time.Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdNumber of pages: 64Co...