Carcanet Press Ltd imprint: 264 books

by Joey Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

Long Pass is narrated by people who set out to communicate something simple and heartfelt, and who get caught up mid-expression in the social and linguistic complexities of communication: how can we say what we mean when language is made up with sets and sets of social values, cultural biases, linguistic...
by Gerry McGrath
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012

A remarkable collection about love, art, nature, and family, this book of poems observes with painterly precision the commonplaces of experience, creating landscapes of emotional range and intensity. Biography, history, and geography are interwoven in potent new forms: a lover’s fragile caress,...
by Gillian Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

Using water as a contemplative device, this anthology examines themes of war, womanhood, time, and the environment. Individual poems focus on a range of topics-from the seemingly unremarkable contents of a bottle of spring water to the more global issue of rising ocean levels. Rain, drought, flood,...
by Gabriel Josipovici
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018

Gabriel Josipovici's Cemetery in Barnes is a short, intense novel that opens in elegiac mode, advances quietly towards something dark and disturbing, before ending with an eerie calm. Its three plots, relationships and time-scales are tightly woven into a single story; three voices—as in an opera...

European Hours

Collected Poems

by Anthony Rudolf
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017

Now in his mid-seventies, distinguished poet, critic and translator Anthony Rudolf has amassed a lifetime's worth of work, presented here in this latest collection. For over five decades, Rudolf has weaved and nurtured literary connections between Britain and Europe, drawing on his Jewish heritage...
by Rodney Pybus
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

Offering a variety of explorations into different worlds, real and imaginary, beautiful and barbaric, this poetry compilation attempts to illuminate some of life’s difficult puzzles. A journey through a series of vivid encounters—ranging from fireflies outside a Gascony farmhouse and John Wayne...

The Good European

Essays and Arguments

by Iain Bamforth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006

Thrown into a deep identity crisis by Bismarck's victories against the French in 1870, Alsace's divided loyalties have affected the nature of Europe itself. In this authoritative new discussion, Iain Bamforth reports from 15 years of travel, taking him from Berlin, when the wall fell in 1989, to...
by David Herd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

Written between 2011 and 2015, Through continues the inquiry into the language of public space that David Herd embarked upon in All Just. Here, five extended poems address the ways contemporary public language has been rendered officially hostile. Considering the cost of such official hostility to...
by Jane Draycott
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

In galleries and living rooms, on trains and trams and buses, mysterious scenes are briefly illuminated, their occupants caught in 'some small act' or dream - in the National Gallery a gardener steals part of a still-life canvas to replant in his own garden; on a winter train a commuter invokes their...
by Dan Burt
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

Including poems, sequences, and a prose memoir, this collection looks at the 20th century and its aftermath through the shattered lens of John Ruskin’s famous book and the work of certain modern painters. With steady, truth-telling poems, this compilation is not only inspired by the poet’s collaborations...
by John F. Deane
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

These are poems that explore the parameters of a contemporary Christian sensibility in an attempt-through the reclamation of the language of sacrament and celebration-to re-invent a meaningful approach to contemporary problems. Moving from sonnet and stories through Biblical echoes, to the music of...
by John F. Deane
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Featuring the best poems of one of Ireland’s most popular modern poets, this new work explores John F. Deane’s perennial themes of love—both religious and human. The title sequence traces the development of a Christian life, beginning with expectation and birth and proceeding through youth,...
by Grevel Lindop
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

Centering on the themes of music, travel, and dance, this collection of poems explores the concepts of dreams, ghosts, myth, and magic. Ranging in subject from an Afro-Cuban initiation ritual to the folklore of English yew trees and in place from a haunted library to a shrine of Our Lady in Mexico,...
by Mary O'Malley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

A compilation of skillful poetry charting the journey of Ireland through economic boom and bust, this book, which was inspired on an Irish research ship, explores the science of going under and staying afloat. Touching upon other subjects as well, including love and homecoming, this collection asks what effects such transformations have on the imagination.
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