Books published by Carcanet Press Ltd

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) once described herself as the most famous unknown writer, and although her novel "Nightwood" is celebrated, her poetry has been a well-kept secret. This selection contains work written between 1914 and the 1970s.

"Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems" explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering and funny.

This volume is a collection of Thomas Kinsella's work from 1956 to 1994, making his earlier works accessible in one volume.

An exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means for Boland to be a woman poet, finding her own voice within a tradition.

A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.

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A new and updated version of the 'Collected Poems of Eavan Boland', Ireland's pioneering premier female poet.

Louise Gluck's collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. "Vita Nova" is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life.

In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an Ireland which recent history has changed and yet not deeply, a country observed through eyes that travel and time have made dispassionate and disabused.