A pleasure to be reviewed by Robert Selby in this week’s TLS.

'The sea remembers you in its prayers.' Anthony Vahni Capildeo, 'Polkadot Wounds' Carcanet Press, 2024.

“Hard Drive” by Manchester Metropolitan Uni MA Creative Writing graduate Paul Stephenson has been longlisted for the 2024 Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ writers. The book is published by Manchester’s own Carcanet Press Press. Congratulations, Paul! #McrMetProud Manchester Metropolitan Alumni and Supporters polarisalon.com/copy-of-polari…

Bring back the wolf! He’s not long gone, you know. He went out when sheep came in. Sheep cleared men and women. Now let wolves clear sheep… —Edwin Morgan, “Wolf” in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet Press 2020 #InternationalWolfDay 🐺 carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexe…

Our Meet the Author video this week is by Carl Phillips, whose poetry collection, Scattered Snows to the North, we published this month! youtu.be/w4dCxxO8HFY

Exciting to see David Wheatley’s (david wheatley) collection Child Ballad, published by us, reviewed in TLS the other day! You can give it a read here: the-tls.co.uk/literature/poe…

On Wednesday 28th August at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Partita and A Winter in Zürau by Gabriel Josipovici. The event will be hosted by David Herman and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/events…

i'll be hosting Oksana Maksymchuk's reading at this year's Manchester Literature Festival - it'd be great to see some friendly faces in the audience for what is bound to be an excellent evening of poetry. tickets and details here: manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/oksana-…

On Wednesday 4th September, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Apple Thieves by Beverley Bie Brahic. The reading will be hosted by Katie Peterson. The event will feature readings, discussion and audience Q&A. carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/events…

We're delighted to announce our collaboration on a second Northern Publishers' Fair this year - a performance edition for the opening weekend of Manchester Literature Festival! At the wonderful venue of Manchester Central Library, come along from 10.30am - 3.30pm to hear from the best northern

Celebrate the best of northern literature with Carcanet Press at the Northern Publishers' Fair. Stop by to hear from their award-winning writers and pick up your next great read! #NorthernPublishersFair #indiepublishers #authorevents #manchester #BookCommunity

So looking forward to this event, hosted by a poet I admire, whose debut collection "Food for the Dead" is a beautiful, poignant reflection on collective memory and family history 🌻

'This book is the latest report from an ongoing journey of making. The poems are maps of where I’ve been ... they're also harbingers, I just have to trust them.' This week's blog is by Carl Phillips, author of Scattered Snows, to the North out this month! carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2024/08/scatte…

On Wednesday 28th August at 7pm, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Partita and A Winter in Zürau by Gabriel Josipovici. The event will be hosted by David Herman and will feature readings, discussion & audience Q&A. carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/events…

The recording of the online launch held for Ambush at Still Lake by Caroline Bird is now up on our Youtube channel! Click the link below to watch. youtu.be/Bgr2wUMWsUk

On Wednesday 4th September, please join us online to celebrate the launch of Apple Thieves by Beverley Bie Brahic. The reading will be hosted by Katie Peterson. The event will feature readings, discussion and audience Q&A. carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/events…

" I spent four hours writing a shit poem about Kermit." is probably the best confessional line of poetry I have heard today! Thank you, Caroline Bird for your brilliant honesty on your writing process and always astonishing, arresting, moving, and irrestible humour!

Look forward to catching up with this!

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