Books published by Carcanet Press Ltd

The third and most adventurous collection yet from acclaimed poet, critic and performer Rory Waterman interrogates absences and where they might prompt or force us to go.

This second collection from Seamus Heaney Prize-winning poet Kate Miller is a meditation on dreaming and the journey from sleep to waking.

This fifth Carcanet collection from the author of Joy (title poem won Forward Prize for Best Single Poem).

This highly anticipated new collection from a prize-winning Chinese Singaporean writer probes the place of history in our contemporary, border-crossing lives and communities.

After seven centuries, the Divine Comedy reborn... In the follow-up to his 2019 Seamus Heaney Prize-winning debut Unearthly Toys, Ned Denny takes a unique, startling approach to the medieval, quintessential spiritual epic.

The first UK Selected of one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary poets.

A new selection of Jennings' best work set to dazzle familiar readers and introduce her to a new generation

Art of Escape is a wonderful casting off into the complex waters of adult life, in which change has become the constant.

An exploratory anthology of the eclipsed, neglected - and indeed notorious - `Apocalyptic' poetry of the 1940s.

Following on from 2017's celebrated Poems, this is a wide-ranging selection of Bonnefoy's essays on literature, art and life.

Prize-winning Iranian-born poet and celebrated founder of The Poetry School (London) explores her diverse culture in a series of brilliant `oriental sonnets.'

A vivid mix of poetry and memoir, elegy and memory, by a man with a vivid history that touches on the USA, Europe and the Middle East.

Trans woman writer and Anglican parish priest, Rachel Mann, interrogates the place of faith and myth in a secular world.

A wide ranging anthology of work by contemporary poets from different backgrounds, with accompanying prose commentaries, drawn from the Guardian 'Poem of the Week' blog.

A new and thoroughly revised selection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with an introduction from Rachel Mann.

The sixth collection from award-winning poet and dramatist Caroline Bird.

Published to coincide with the commemoration of Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, this is a selection of observations and insights from 'America's greatest poet', carefully curated from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with journalist Horace Traubel.

This personal book explores both the public and the private dimensions of forgetting and its scary Siamese twin, remembering.

A brilliant poetic exploration of language and gender, place and time, through the mirror of exile.