Books published by Carcanet Press Ltd

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

The poems in Invitation to View, Peter Scupham's hugely welcome new book, often guess and puzzle, offering possible and impossible interpretations.

A sensuous, richly nuanced collection of essays for intellectual and emotional survival in this fractious age.

The personal-political memoir of a lawyer and businessman turned writer, an American emigre who never found a home in America.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and its commemoration in Derry in January 2022, Carcanet proudly publish a new edition of Thomas Kinsella's Butcher's Dozen, with a prologue from the Saville Report, an epilogue from the Prime Minister's House of Commons apology, and a new author's note.

Levitating snailfish, sotto voice therapists and melancholic kittiwakes abound in this soulful and surreal concoction, from poet and playwright Claudine Toutoungi.

The most extensive selection to be published in the UK of the poetry of one of the greatest Italian writers of the 20th Century.

The Welsh poet Andrew McNeillie brings together in this generous and timely volume his seven collections of poems - including his most recent, Making Ends Meet, and his Forward-Prize-shortlisted Carcanet collection Nevermore (2000).

The highly anticipated debut collection from a contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology.

The first UK publication from this acclaimed US poet, one of the outstanding lyric poets of our time.

The latest collection from Olive Senior, Jamaican Poet Laureate, collects her four books of poetry alongside new work written during the pandemic.

The much-anticipated first collection from Eric Gregory Award winner and a contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology.

In the Same Light translates the great poets of the Tang Dynasty and makes them at home in 21st-century English.

In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.

The fourth Carcanet collection from Trinidadian, Forward Prize-winning poet Vahni Capildeo.

The long-anticipated second collection from award-winning poet and Guardian & TLS critic, Paul Batchelor.

Owen Lowery's posthumous third collection explores the importance and fragility of life.

Jack Bevan's remarkable translation of Quasimodo's entire poetic oeuvre (Anvil, 1983), redesigned and reissued in 2017

New 'contemporary prairie gothic' collection from Canadian poet Sheri Benning, a lead poet from Carcanet's bestselling anthology New Poetries V.

Revelations offered by art when viewed or reflected on from a distance in space or time.

Carola Luther's new book, On the Way to Jerusalem Farm, explores the complexities of living in a damaged world.

In this new collection from gay cultural historian and literary critic Gregory Woods, individuals seek, find and lose love in a world united in strife and riven by desire.