This first anthology of "Apocalyptic" or neo-romantic poetry since thenineteen-forties includes over 150 poets, many well known (DylanThomas, W. S. Graham), and others quite forgotten (Ernest Frost, PaulPotts). Over forty of the poets are women, of w...

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.

A book of "oriental sonnets" exploring the long-term effects of early childhood displacement and loss by multi-prize-winning poet Mimi Khalvati.

A Map Towards Fluency, Lisa Kelly's first collection, considers words, the power they impart, the power their absence withholds. Forgetting, mis-hearing, mis-remembering all challenge the imagination to find ways round and ways through. `The idea of...

Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet `whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture'. He has a Polish name, was born in Canada, and lives in London where he collects other exiles, listens to th...

Fawzi Karim's poetry has been widely translated, among other languages into French, Swedish, Italian and English. Carcanet published "The Plague Lands and Other Poems" (2011), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This new selection, transl...

Scotland's great maverick poet, Glasgow-born Frank Kuppner produces a tenth collection of poems that bring bring Glasgow to China and willow-pattern to the rougher parts of Glasgow.

Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie-Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: with the waters rising, a lonely giraffe speaks fro...

Selected poems and prose by one of Austria's most controversial satirists of the interwar years.

Michael Kruger is a major figure in modern German poetry, one of its great editors and leading practitioners. In 1993 Carcanet published "Diderot's Cat", Michael Kruger's original "Selected Poems", which drew on thirteen collections. This new edition...