Books published by Carcanet Press Ltd

This selection of over 150 of Ivor Gurney's poems, was made by the poet P.J. Kavanagh from his edition of the "Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney". It is reissued now, with a few corrected readings, and with a Chronology and Introduction to Gurney's life, by P.J. Kavanagh.

Gathers the work of four of the 'first generation' of New York poets: Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. This anthology provides introductions to the poets' work, and charts an exchange between experiment and the emergence of language poetry.

This is a short, powerful novel dealing with the complicities and accomodations of power within Italian politics.

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 translation of the whole of the "Canzoniere" has notes to suggest the many connections between the poems.