Congratulations to Jeremy Over who has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year with his collection Fourth and Walnut!🎉 Get Fourth and Walnut here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017460...

"Those looking for poetic diction will be thinly sated... What there is instead is a relentless exercise in auto-therapy, working through, stumbling on the occasional breakthrough." Stuart Walton on Joe Carrick-Varty's BEFORE VIOLENCE (@carcanet.bsky.social) review31.co.uk/article/view...

The afternoon sun. #sunday #kirbyfairy Evan P. Jones + Kirby read Cavafy. @evanpjones.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social #thebarbariansarrivetoday youtu.be/vOChVM9RsOE?... www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410994...

Only a few tickets left for MONDAY's workshop - Writing the Pantoum: Repetition, Reverie and the Art of Echo with David Morley 11/5/26. One of the UK's best poetry teachers. Book here - www.cathdrake.com @profdavidmorley.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

@montylitfest.bsky.social presents magnificent fiction! Find out more at montylitfest.com @sophiehannah.bsky.social Elizabeth O'Connor, Myfanwy Alexander, Sian Hughes @picadorbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social

Carcanet and @pnreview.bsky.social are very saddened to hear of the passing of our friend Carol Rumens, poet and the Guardian’s Poem of the Week columnist. Here is 'Winter Walk' by Lynette Roberts, the last poem of ours that Carol chose to reprint in The Guardian. For Carol - thank you 🩵

#TheDeeperRead 17 is here, featuring "The Millihelen" by @newcastleuni.bsky.social @poetryschool.bsky.social MA tutor Sinéad Morrissey from her @carcanet.bsky.social collection "On Balance", twinned with my poem "Coast Run" from Black Iris 5. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...

Cuiridh mi làmh air corran na gealaich agus òrd ceann-chruaidh thairis air an òr f hann is troimhe: is canadh Dia gur h-e an toibheum… —Somhairle MacGill-Eain, “Gealach Ùr” Sorley MacLean: Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2017 #InternationalWorkersDay #poem www.carcanet.co.uk/978184777171...

I am so grateful to Don Mee Choi, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Sasha Dugdale, & Deryn Rees-Jones for spending time with Landscape with Question & giving these incredible endorsements. ❤️ Landscape with Question is published next month by @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

It’s living with ships makes a rough springtime and who is safe when they sing and blow their music … —Edwin Morgan, “Floating Off to Timor” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

Say hello to our May titles!🌻 Pre-order now with code MAYBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/new-titles-o...

#TheDeeperRead 17 arrives this Friday, featuring "The Millihelen" by @newcastleuni.bsky.social @poetryschool.bsky.social MA tutor Sinéad Morrissey from her @carcanet.bsky.social collection "On Balance", twinned with my poem "Coast Run" from Black Iris issue 5. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com

Join Sophie Hannah on tour this Summer!🐓 Get your tickets here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/sophi... Sophie will be appearing at various locations across the UK to read from her forthcoming collection, Work Experience. More dates to be announced!⭐

WORK EXPERIENCE - the new collection from Sophie Hannh is coming May 2026🐓 Sophie Hannah’s new collection combines maverick, irreverent poems that rhyme and scan and will make you laugh aloud, together with the librettos of her two musicals. Out 28th May. Pre-order from the Carcanet website now.📚

Our Carcanet Classics are on sale!⭐ For a final few days, get 20% off the pictured Classics and more with code CLASSICCARC. Explore more on our website:🔗 www.carcanet.co.uk/

In which I talk with the delightful @gregorykearns.bsky.social about stealing books, a railway childhood, translation and the soul’s mobility…. @carcanet.bsky.social

A bony horse with a bird on it droops its head. With a cart of skulls like potatoes Death drives onward… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Bruegel” from DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 A #poem for #WorldArtDay #art #painting #visualart #poetry artsandculture.google.com/entity/piete...

Oh to be at Crowdieknowe When the last trumpet blaws, An’ see the deid come loupin’ owre The auld grey wa’s… —Hugh MacDiarmid, “Crowdieknowe” from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry, @carcanet.bsky.social 2004 #poem #poetry #art #visualart #WorldArtDay www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754756...

9/10 You understand it? How they returned from Culloden over the soggy moors aslant, each cap at the low ebb no new full tide could pardon… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Culloden and After” in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...

we foindle and fungle, we bonkle and meigle and maxpoffle. we scotstarvit, armit, wormit, and even whifflet… —Edwin Morgan, “Canedolia: An Off-Concrete Scotch Fantasia” from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #BookologyThursday #poem #placenames www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

Friends near and far, mark your calendars for the April 28 tele-launch of Henri Coulette’s NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Michael Caines and I will be joined by Ange Mlinko. @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/events/henri...

Oh Elizabeth Jennings. Why have I just found you? I love you. From selected poems @carcanet.bsky.social 🩷.

Introducing Leontia Flynn!✈️ Bringing together work from her five previous collections, this Selected Poems, in its variety of forms, registers the trajectory of a life: the awful and exhilarating experiment of existing in a turbulent world. Pre-order your copy with code APRILBOOKS15 for 15% off.🔗

📖Upcoming Carcanet Book Launches! Please join us to celebrate the launches of Leontia Flynn, Robert Minhinnick and Henri Coulette! Get tickets for our events here:🔗 www.carcanet.co.uk/events/

In the final programme of series three of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Stephen Sawyer about Jorie Graham’s poem ‘Time Frame’ in relation to and in conversation with his own poem ‘Running Thin’. @lrb.co.uk @carcanet.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social www.podbean.com/eas/pb-guui6...

Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring. Soaring metal is flight and nest together… —Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry #Artemis www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

@carcanet.bsky.social - Remembering Ed Dorn today on the Allen Ginsberg Project - allenginsberg.org/2026/04/t-a-...

A Latin harsh with Aramaicisms poured from his lips incessantly; it made no sense, for surely he was mad… —Edwin Morgan, “Pilate at Fortingall” published in Centenary Selected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #Easter #poem #poetry #GoodFriday www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410996...

This month we're publishing Alcatraz: Poems from the Contemporary Welsh by Robert Minhinnick!💥 Get 15% off your copy when you use the code MARCHBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017503...

Say hello to our April titles! 🌦️ Get 15% off with code APRILBOOKS15 until the end of the month: www.carcanet.co.uk/new-titles-o...

Discount Spotlight: This Women's History Month, get 20% off our rediscovered women poets with code REDISCOVER20: tinyurl.com/zd76bpcx Lynette Roberts is one of the most astonishing and brilliant poets of the 20th century. This book contains sixty-five of Roberts' uncollected and unpublished poems.

Happy World Poetry Day!🎉 To celebrate, we're offering 25% off 10 of our bestselling poetry collections until tomorrow (Sunday 22 March). Head to our website checkout and use code POETRY25 for 25% off:🔗 www.carcanet.co.uk/ Or, read more about the books on offer: tinyurl.com/5anxv5zh

‘My idea of the German Democratic Republic still has our old hoover at its heart.’—An extract from Among Communists by Sinéad Morrissey (Carcanet Press) @carcanet.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social booksirelandmagazine.com/ive-been-to-...

Discount Spotlight: This Women's History Month, get 20% off our rediscovered women poets with code REDISCOVER20: tinyurl.com/zd76bpcx Alice Meynell was a major British author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this is the first collection of her work to be published in 75 years.

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Belfast, comunismo, conflicto norirlandés y poesía. Ninguna sorpresa que las memorias de Sinéad Morrissey sean uno de mis libros más esperados del año. Se publica en inglés este mes y la autora lo presenta mañana por Zoom 👇👇

We're delighted to announce that three Carcanet poets have been longlisted for the 2026 Jhalak Prize!🎉 Many congratulations to SuAndi, Catherine-Esther Cowie, and Lorna Goodison, who have been longlisted for their collections Leaning Against Time, Heirloom, and Dante's Inferno.

Tomorrow night at 7pm on Zoom, award-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey will launch her memoir AMONG COMMUNISTS, hosted by memoirist @suzyjoinson.bsky.social ❤️🔥 Tickets here: tinyurl.com/bdhavz5y Tells a history of the Northern Irish conflict unlike any other... see you there? 📚

Join sought after teacher David Morley for an immersive workshop on the pantoum, one of poetry’s most haunting and versatile forms. David will offer a unique visual map of the form and experiments with extended pantoums. @carcanet.bsky.social @profdavidmorley.bsky.social www.cathdrake.com 11 May

When you were people We could have loved you, Found out your names And brought you presents… —AC Jacobs, “Poem for Innocent Victims of War” published in NAMELESS COUNTRY: Selected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2018 #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410675...

She is tougher than me, harder. Elephant body on a miniature stool keels when rising till the drilled stick plants it upright… —Iain Crichton Smith, “For My Mother” from New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 #MothersDay #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...

This month we're publishing Before Violence by Joe Carrick-Varty!🎡 Get 15% off your copy when you use the code MARCHBOOKS15: tinyurl.com/3z5c7mtv A Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation Joe's outstanding second collection reflects further on growing up under the cloud of abuse and alcoholism.

Congratulations to Dane Holt whose debut collection 'Father's Father's Father' has been shortlisted for the 2026 John Pollard Poetry Prize! @tcddublin.bsky.social The winner will be announced at a ceremony in Trinity in April 2026. Check out the book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017468...

⭐Discount Spotlight: This Women's History Month, get 20% off our rediscovered women poets with code REDISCOVER20: tinyurl.com/zd76bpcx The Miraculous Season, is a revelation of the true breadth and brilliance of Lang's poetry, rediscovered and made available in print for the first time since 1975.

Many good reasons to listen to this 'Verb' with @imcmillan.bsky.social! One is to hear lovely lucid lines by Elizabeth Jennings read & introduced by Michael Schmidt,who published her so long @carcanet.bsky.social. Her marriage of formal grace & intense openness to life's seasons is, I think, unique.

I loved More Sky. Looking forward to Joe's next book www.carcanet.co.uk/events/befor... @carcanet.bsky.social

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Gaza' by Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

A deer looks through you to the other side, and what it is and sees is an inhuman pride… —from “Deer on the High Hills” (extract) by Iain Crichton Smith published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 #BookWormSat #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...

The Brotherton Poetry Prize is open for submissions! 💫 Find out more: poetry.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-p...

This month we're publishing Among Communists by Sinéad Morrissey!💥 Get 15% off your paperback copy when you use the code MARCHBOOKS15: tinyurl.com/4rre4922 We've also teamed up with No Alibis Bookstore to create a limited edition signed hardback: noalibis.com/product/amon... Get your copy now!⭐