Books published by Carcanet Press Ltd

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.

An edition of the "Collected Poems" of Frank O'Hara, who is a leading light of the 'New York School' and one of the most significant poets of the twentieth-century.

Rebecca Elson's knowledge of astronomy is combined with autobiographical detail here in an exploration of time, space, evolution and her approaching death.

The first ever collection in English of Ice Age Poetry, drawn from the cave drawings and inscriptions at Lascaux, unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century.

An autobiography emerges from this Covid diary by the celebrated novelist, short story writer, critic and playwright.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise Gluck.

New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female poet.

From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. This title evokes a Mediterranean world with luminous precision.

A landmark gathering of the first three decades of work by America's preeminent living poet.

Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2024. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2023. Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023. Tara Bergin's third collection, Savage Tales continues to explore original territory, bringing the riddle, song and dialogue into a series of formally inventive and blackly comic sequences. Bergin's book asks us to steer our way through a chorus of exchanges and situations, as she charts the fraught course between the making of individual poems and, uneasy bedfellow of this sustained activity, an authority which is always here called into question. Dramatizing the contemporary and the classic with great wit, ingenuity and panache, Savage Tales confirms Bergin as one of the outstanding poets of our time.

Debut collection from a British-born Irish writer who was a star of Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology.

The ninth Carcanet collection from one of the finest living English poets.

The second Carcanet poetry collection from Peter Davidson is a book of elegies and consolations for dead friends, past times, and spiritual consolations.

The Kingdom of Jane Draycott's fifth collection has its face turned towards the future, considering how we face the ever-continuing approach of the unknown.

Fifth Carcanet collection from one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation and current Chair of The Edwin Morgan Trust.

[To] the Last [Be] Human collects the four remarkable books Jorie Graham has published with Carcanet since 2008, Sea Change, Place, fast and Runaway.

Zoe Skoulding's first Carcanet collection is a navigation of lostness, centred on Anglesey, that discovers solidarities across times, places and species.

A moving poetry collection from one of the most significant Mexican writers since Octavio Paz, Bracho finds tenderness, humor, and a kind of bravery in her mother's struggle with Alzheimer's.

The first UK publication of this award-winning Russian-born American poet and translator.