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Carcanet Press One of the outstanding literary publishers of our time, Carcanet Press has a special emphasis on poetry from around the world.

Have you shopped our monthly discount yet? This month, use code BHMBOOKS10 for 10% off books in our Black History Month collection at the checkout on our website:⬇️
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Debris by Daniel Huws: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press Please join us to celebrate the launch of Debris by Daniel Huws. The reading will be hosted by poet, critic and translator Hilary Davies. The event will

Join us online to launch 'Debris' by Daniel Huws on Wednesday 22 October at 7pm BST! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Hilary Davies and feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/debri...

Mimi Khalvati Rylands Poetry Reading | Manchester Literature Festival Free but advance booking recommended

Join Mimi Khalvati on Thursday 23rd October for the annual Rylands Reading at Manchester Literature Festival. She will be discussing her latest publication, Collected Poems. 🌊

Tickets are free and can be booked here:🎟️
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Poetry at the Parsonage Day | The Brontë Parsonage Museum Join us for a day of poetry in Haworth, inspired by Yorkshire people, places and landscape. We’ll hear from both established and new poets from across the

Tomorrow from 10am join Carcanet's Managing Director Michael Schmidt and two Carcanet poets at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for a day of poetry!

For more information, and to purchase tickets, see here:
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Alice Meynell Poems - Carcanet Launch, at Heffers Bookshop Join us on the 10th of November as a selection of local Carcanet authors read from the new collection of Alice Meynell's poetry

On Monday 10th November at 6.15pm, join Alex Wong, Laura Mulvey, and other speakers at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge for an in-person book launch of Alice Meynell's Selected Poems and Essays.

To purchase a ticket (priced at £5), see here:⬇️
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⭐Discount Spotlight: Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant🕯️

Carcanet's monthly discount has launched! To celebrate Black History Month, enjoy 10% off all books published in our Black poetry collection by using code BHMBOOKS10 at checkout for 10% off:
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Eccolo by Hal Coase: Carcanet Rome Book Launch - Carcanet Press Join Carcanet poet Hal Coase in Rome for the in-person launch of his collection Eccolo! The event will feature readings and discussion by Hal on his new

On Sunday 26th October at 7pm, join Hal Coase for an in-person book launch in Rome! Hosted by Carmen Gallo, Hal will be discussing and reading from his recent collection Eccolo at Le Bici ASD, Via Giovannipoli.

For more information:⬇️
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Contemporary Poets Read from their New Collections (In Person AND Online!)

Discussion & reading with Oksana Maksymchuk @carcanet.bsky.social on 24 October at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University at 12pm. Please come if you are around in NYC. We’ll be talking about writing in war.
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Though she is as at home with the dramatic monologue as the lyric and the ballad, SuAndi’s poems defy easy categorisation and make visible on the page a remarkable trailblazing writing career.

In this selection, the rhythms of speech and performance echo off the page.

which recognised her poems’ fierce, vividly powerful and dramatic depictions of women’s lives – in Manchester, the city she grew up in – and of Black communities and the lives of those whose voices are not often heard, even now, in contemporary British literature.

has recently been celebrated by the award of the Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is an honorary fellow, for services to literature across her career,

This is the first substantial selection of poems by SuAndi, whose work – as performer, writer for stage and arts curator –

This month, we are publishing Leaning Against Time by SuAndi!🕰️
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Congratulations to all ten poets shortlisted for the 2025 @tseliotprize.bsky.social, with a special shout out to St. Lucian author Catherine-Esther Cowie for her debut collection, Heirloom published by @carcanet.bsky.social!
Read more about this prestigious award at:
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Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: Alice Meynell- Book Launch with Talks by Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey Book Launch with talks Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Edited by Alex Wong Prefaced by Laura Mulvey

On Friday 31st October at 6pm, please join Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey in London for the in-person book launch of Alice Meynell's Selected Poems and Essays.

Tickets are free, but require registration:🎟️⬇️
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SuAndi: Leaning Against Time: Carcanet Book Launch Join us to celebrate the launch of Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi, published by Carcanet Press

On Wednesday 15th October at 6pm, join SuAndi at the launch of her book Leaning Against Time!

The event will take place at Aviva Studios in Manchester, but will also be streamed online.

In-person tickets:
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Online tickets:
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Stav Poleg & Joseph Minden: Carcanet Cambridge Book Launch - Carcanet Press Join acclaimed poets Stav Poleg and Joseph Minden to celebrate their dual poetry launch! The event will feature readings and discussion by Stav and Joseph

On Tuesday 28th October at 6pm, please join us at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge to celebrate the launch of Answerlands by Joseph Minden and The Banquet by Stav Poleg.

The event is free to attend, and tickets can be found here:⬇️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/stav-...

Reviews – The High Window Posts about Reviews written by The High Window Review

'To put the book [Red Carpet] down and then come back to it, is to encounter a poet with an endlessly interesting perspective on the world.'

Ian Pople, The High Window, on Steve Malmude's Red Carpet ⬇️
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Browse 'Red Carpet':
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From SuAndi's article on her new book Leaning Against Time, which is published this month!🕰️

Read in full here: open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

Translating the Classics: Naush Sabah, Philip Terry Translations of Al-Būșīrī and Dante will be performed and discussed. As part of Winchester Poetry Festival 2025.

As part of Winchester Poetry Festival, join Philip Terry in Winchester this Saturday 11 October where from 4-5pm he will be reading from and discussing his version of Dante's Purgatorio.

For more information, and to purchase tickets, see here:
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Reading in Oxford on 12 November, 6pm. I'll mainly read from my new(ish) @carcanet.bsky.social collection Come Here to This Gate, plus some of my earlier work. There will be a reading also by N.S. Thompson, and a public discussion about poetry. Do come! It's free.

The best recent poetry – review roundup So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma

Brilliant to see our upcoming October release 'thrums' by Thomas A Clark included in a review of the best recent poetry by the Guardian!

Read what Philip Terry had to say here:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Browse 'thrums':
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YouTube video by Carcanet Press Meet the Author: SuAndi Discusses Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems

This week our Meet the Author video is by SuAndi, whose collection Leaning Against Time is published this month!

To watch her introduce the collection and discuss some of the highlights, click the link below ⬇️
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Stephen Payne reviews 'Fourth & Walnut' by Jeremy Over (Carcanet, 2025) The Friday Poem on 3rd October 2025

'This poet evidently has a tender eye for the off-whack, and a keenness to take an experimental approach... to address emotively charged content. I appreciate his approach in this poem.'

Stephen Payne on Jeremy Over's Fourth and Walnut.
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The Banquet by Stav Poleg: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press Please join us to celebrate the launch of The Banquet by Stav Poleg. The reading will be hosted by Leo Boix.

Join us online to launch Stav Poleg's second collection The Banquet with Leo Boix on Wednesday 29 October at 7pm BST!💻 📖

As ever the event will feature readings, discussion and we will also make time for audience questions.

More info and tickets are here:
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/the-b...

Review by Colin Dardis of "Bunting’s Honey" by Moya Cannon A persistent theme is the danger of forgetting, of lost words and times. "And Now The Babies" laments that "no one can figure out again, | h...

'Cannon excels in letting us know of hidden wonders, of human adventures and pastoral splendours, and it is from within nature that some of the strongest poems arise.'

Colin Dardis for 'Everybody's Reviewing' on Moya Cannon's 'Bunting's Honey':
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Our monthly discount is on!⭐

To celebrate Black History Month, enjoy 10% off all books published by our black poets using the code BHMBOOKS10 at checkout until the end of the month.
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