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Songs We Learn from Trees An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9781784109479, Carcanet, May 2020
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The first ever anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of this beautiful country.
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£18,99
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Sweet Nothings
ISBN: PB: 9781784109394, Carcanet, May 2020
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The third and most adventurous collection yet from acclaimed poet, critic and performer Rory Waterman interrogates absences and where they might prompt or force us to go.
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£10,99
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Squid Squad A Novel
ISBN: PB: 9781784109356, Carcanet, April 2020
128 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In "Squid Squad", award-winning poet Matthew Welton takes his first foray into fiction in verse form.
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£10,99
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Sky Burial New and Selected Poems
ISBN: PB: 9781784108229, Carcanet, February 2020
160 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In 1995 Carcanet published "The Exact Change Yearbook" edited by Carcanet poet Michael Palmer and by Peter Gizzi, then at the beginning of his career. The issue featured writing by Gertrude Stein, Barbara Guest, Jack Spicer (whose work Gizzi has edit...
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£14,99
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Smart Devices 52 Poems from the Guardian "Poem of the Week"
ISBN: PB: 9781784107796, Carcanet, November 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Carol Rumens has been contributing "Poem of the Week" to the Guardian for more than a dozen years. Do the maths: that's more than 624 blogs! No wonder she has a large and devoted following. She's a poet reader, not an academic. She is in love with th...
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£14,99
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Salvage At Twilight
ISBN: PB: 9781784107918, Carcanet, October 2019
96 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The poet – a man of the world in the widest sense – reflects and in reflection relives the intense experiences that shaped him and that have shaped our modern world. Salvage at Twilight ends with "Deposition", a harrowing elegy in five parts: the bel...
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£9,99
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So Many Rooms
ISBN: PB: 9781784108496, Carcanet, August 2019
80 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
"So Many Rooms", the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott, moves with its own lyric strangeness, opening up different rooms and also different worlds.
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£9,99
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Silence
ISBN: PB: 9781784107475, Carcanet, June 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
The title poem of John Greening's "The Silence" is a meditation on Sibelius and the thirty years he spent grappling with an eighth symphony that he eventually burned. The poem is emblematic of a broader concern with the mystery of the creative proces...
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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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Significant Other
ISBN: PB: 9781784107116, Carcanet, March 2019
64 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
In her first book of poems, Isabel Galleymore takes a sustained look at the 'eight million differently constructed hearts' of species currently said to inhabit the earth. These are part of the significant other of her title; so too are the intimacies...
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