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Carcanet Press Ltd. 2013; US$ 9.99In her latest collection, Alison Brackenbury draws on her lifetime?s experience of rural England, its people, and its ways. From the lapwings of her childhood Lincolnshire to the recent floods in Gloucestershire and the signs of a changing climate, the poems reach urgently to both past and future. Keenly aware of both the beauty and the harshness of... more...
Chris McCully: Selected Poems
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 19.99Featuring sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and translations from Old English, this compilation by Dutch poet Chris McCully spans 16 years of his work. A meditation on extinction, this supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile place in which we live as it reveals the author’s engagement with language and the poetic form. Inspired in part by... more...
A Recipe for Water
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2012; US$ 9.99Using water as a contemplative device, this anthology examines themes of war, womanhood, time, and the environment. Individual poems focus on a range of topics?from the seemingly unremarkable contents of a bottle of spring water to the more global issue of rising ocean levels. Rain, drought, flood, thirst, rivers, and oceans inspire this thought-provoking... more...
A Light Song of Light
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2010; US$ 15.95Exploring 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 shapesnewly forged dictionary definitions; praise-songs celebrating the Singerman in a Jamaican road gang; and simple narratives of ghosts,... more...
An Ordinary Dog
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 15.95Both intimate and detached, this poetry compilation delves into the politics and aesthetics of desiresacred and profane, frantic and serene, refined and grubby. Reflecting upon the comedy of human needs and the vanity of human wishes, these poems consider times of crisis when history is lived and reinvented, myth degenerates into faith, and... more...
Arguing with Malarchy
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 15.95A collection of poetry by South African-born, Yorkshire-based Carola Luther, this account is a chronicle of mourning, renewal, and the realities of human relationships. Addressed to the eponymous Malarchy’a magical, quarrelsome, and often drunken young boythese poems explore silences, absences, the unspoken communication between... more...
Bride of Ice
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2009; US$ 23.95Intensely emotional and honest, this collection of searing poems about love, loss, jealousy, and fear, explores the literary and social landscape of post revolutionary Russia. Sharply addressing the conflicts between the life of a poet and that of a mother and wife, this enlarged volume, masterfully translated, includes five major poem sequences, one... more...
Cities
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2010; US$ 15.95With 60 new poems spanning the worldfrom Basel to Budapest, Tampico to Tiblisi, New York to Sydneythis collection explores the landscape and history of each destination with vivid expressions charged by memories both fond and once forgotten. From her insightful autobiography, the author encounters friends, colleagues, and strangers... more...
Close to the Next Moment
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2010; US$ 29.95A collection of interviews featuring Irish poets, artists, fiction writers, and playwrights, this record chronicles how these cultural leaders viewed their country in the first decade of the new millennium as economic collapse gathered pace and recurrent concerns gained a new urgency. Answering questions such as What are Irish values? How have they... more...
Enchantment
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2011; US$ 15.95Exploring questions such as How does a blacksmith make fresh life from fire? Why does a creature that is half-man and half-hedgehog decide to take on the human race? and How do you ride a horse through time? this ambitious and prize-winning anthology reclaims the magical short story on behalf of the medium of poetry. Revealing a myriad of tales... more...









