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Threadbare Coat Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784109981, Carcanet, November 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This "Selected Poems" celebrates Scotland's most distinctive contemporary writer – a vivid minimalist, ruralist and experimentalist.
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£12,99
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Arrow
ISBN: PB: 9781784109929, Carcanet, September 2020
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"Arrow" is a debut volume extraordinary in ambition, range and achievement. At its centre is "Dear, beloved", a more-than-elegy for her younger sister who died suddenly: in the two years she took to write the poem, much else came into play: "it was m...
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Barbarians Arrive Today Poems & Prose
ISBN: PB: 9781784109943, Carcanet, September 2020
352 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
With "The Barbarians Arrive Today", Evan Jones has produced the classic English Cavafy for our age. Expertly translated from Modern Greek, this edition presents Cavafy's finest poems, short creative prose and autobiographical writings, offering uniqu...
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£19,99
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Culture of My Stuff
ISBN: PB: 9781784109516, Carcanet, May 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This second collection by Northern Irish poet Adam Crothers and winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize includes sonnets and prose poems, anxiety and swagger, confession and nonsense.
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The Revisionist and The Astropastorals
ISBN: PB: 9781784108694, Carcanet, November 2019
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Douglas Crase is best known for a single book of poems, "The Revisionist" (1981). In the year of its publication John Ashbery urged Carcanet to consider it for British publication and now, thirty-eightyears later, the book appears together with the c...
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Donegal Tarantella
ISBN: PB: 9781784107871, Carcanet, September 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
This sixth collection by one of Carcanet's most celebrated Irish poets gathers together lyric poems musing on history, on archaeology, geology and on the deep need of the human spirit to find expression in music and song.
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£9,99
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Skin Can Hold 
ISBN: PB: 9781784107314, Carcanet, May 2019
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Vahni Capildeo, author of "Measures of Expatriation" (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with her third Carcanet collection, "Skin Can Hold". The collection marks an experimental departure for a traditionally pen-and-paper poet as she explores embodied pr...
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£9,99
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Venus as a Bear
ISBN: PB: 9781784105549, Carcanet, April 2018
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Vahni Capildeo's new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. "Venus as a Bear" places the non-human world at its centre, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it is alive. We have feelings for familiar or stra...
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Books of Catullus
ISBN: PB: 9781784105501, Carcanet, March 2018
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
A new translation of the Roman poet Catullus which reinvents and reimagines his poetry for the contemporary age.
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£12,99
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Full Cone
ISBN: PB: 9781784104405, Carcanet, February 2018
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Surrealism comes of age in Champion's welcome return to British poetry.
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£14,99
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