Books published by Carcanet Press Ltd

Debut collection recalling the lives, experiences, and bravery of women in Afghanistan, which includes the 2019 Forward Prize-winning poem 'Forty Names'.

Robert wells, a poet at the height of his craft, tackles themes of age and memories of youth with an intense, visual power.

Three ancient story cycles of Inuit culture made available as poetry: Sedna the Sea Goddess, Kiviuq the Hunter, and The Old Woman Who Changed Herself Into A Man.

A passionate, political new collection from Jamaica's poet laureate.

Debut collection about Blackness, nature, and landscape from a contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology.

The first Selected since 1985 and the poet's death, this looks afresh at the work of one of Scotland's best loved writers and one of the original Penguin Modern Poets.

The first UK edition of a radical and unconsoling contemporary collection of essays on poetry, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.

A new Selected to commemorate the centenary of Scotland's first official Makar in modern times, Edwin Morgan.

Highly anticipated new collection from the author of 2018's acclaimed Now We Can Talk Openly About Men.

Collects five long, serial poems which the American master John Ashbery left unfinished.

Few novelists have taken films as seriously, or been involved in so many aspects of the film business, as Graham Greene. His experience included producing, performing, script-writing and adaptation. This book presents some of Greene's best film criticism with a mass of related material: film articles, interviews, lectures, radio talks, and more.

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 collection, following her passing in April 2020.

A collection of essays on nature and the environmental crisis from the former National Poet of Wales.

A daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and not be consumed by it.

This volume collects the five major books of one of Ireland's leading writers.

Waldrep's seventh collection, the UK debut of a multiple award-winning US poet, explores the connection between touch and language with poems rooted in landscape and spirituality.

This latest volume of the bestselling anthology series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from around the world.

Bill Manhire's new collection, his first UK publication since Selected Poems, begins with the song of an extinct bird and journeys on into troubling futures.

This Selected celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer, a vivid minimalist, ruralist, and experimentalist.

The Collected Poems of the acclaimed Manchester-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and composer Anthony Burgess.

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

The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular Writing Challenges literature podcast, this is Morley's most political work yet. He gives imaginative voice to the natural world and those silenced or overlooked, from Romany communities to Towfiq Bihani, a 'forgotten' inmate of Guantanamo Bay.