Carcanet Press

Written by one of Australia's best loved poets, Judith Wright, this compilation presents her best work from 1946 to her last collection, published in 1986. Devoted to place and responsive to...

Exploring the relationship between poetry and song, the pieces in this collection work to define the elemental human struggles of good versus evil and light against darkness. The poems take different...

The third volume of Parade's End--one of the outstanding works about World War I and British society before, during, and after that cataclysm--this novel focuses on Valentine Wannop in London and...

Michael Edwards returned to the English tongue for his last book of poems, At the Brasserie Lipp (2019), after years as a French-language author. English revived many nerves of memory, and in Another...

'I am drawn to paintings that catch glimpses of ordinary people in rooms that lead to other rooms, ' Beverley Bie Brahic says. Apple Thieves is full of such painterly moments, remembered or caught on...

With 60 new poems spanning the world--from Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi, New York to Sydney--this collection explores the landscape and history of each destination with vivid expressions...

The work of an original, haunting, and experimental modernist poet is made available again for the first time in 50 years in this volume. Lynette Roberts is principally a war poet, in that her two...

Presented not only in English but also featuring rare Latin verses accompanied by a faithful new translation, this is the definitive volume of poems of a neglected figure in sixteenth-century...

From memories of a childhood in Guyana through an elegiac exploration of the shootings at Virginia Tech University in 2006, this poetry collection journeys from youth to maturing and from continent...

Widely acclaimed when first published in the 1920s, Ford Madox Ford's sequence of four novels, known collectively as Parade's End, is one of the outstanding works about the Great War and British...

This tour de force by a master of experimental novels finds the author reflecting on her old age and its effects on her writing. As she reflects on her own career, her experiments with narrative, and...

'Partial Shade' is the common gardening term for plants that in fact need a measure of sunshine. In John Birtwhistle's poems, there is a continual play of light and shadow - and even glimpses of...

Partita Fiction and non-fiction are two sides of the same coin. Or are they? Michael Penderecki is in flight. Someone has threatened to kill him. But who is the woman dead in the bathtub? And why...

These selections from the esteemed career of Gottfried Benn--one of the most significant German poets of the 20th century--showcase his early, shockingly graphic depictions of human suffering and...

Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant, unconventional mathematician, is married to the dazzling yet unfaithful Sylvia when, during a turbulent weekend, he meets a young Suffragette by the name of...

A tender work of mourning, this poetry collection--owing to the remembered words of a much-loved husband--recalls the author's life before marriage and considers a future after her husband's death...

Published together for the first time, this collection features work from 1914 to the 1970s--many pieces first appearing in pamphlets and literary journals in New York and Paris--including...

A work of rural beauty by John Clare, one of the greatest pastoral poets of nineteenth century English literature.Author: John ClarePublisher: Carcanet PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2006Number of...

Under Storm's Wing collects all that Helen Thomas (1877-1967) wrote about the poet Edward Thomas (1878-1917): the celebrated volumes As It Was and World Without End, her letters to Edward, and...

Why Are You Shouting?, James Womack's fourth Carcanet collection, thinks about two things in particular: our struggle as individuals to find connections between ourselves, with friends, family and...