'It is clear that the specific incident of Adam's death is not the beginning or the end of Adam in Odubanjo's eyes.' From Aisha Allinson's review of Gboyega Odubanjo's 'Adam', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review to read the rest: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights… —Edwin Morgan, “Trio” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

Our Christmas sale is still on!🎄 www.carcanet.co.uk/ Until the end of the month, you can get 20% off all titles on the Carcanet website. Just enter the code CARCMAS at the checkout to unlock the discount.

On Sunday 28 December at 5.30pm join poet Eugene Ostashevsky at Idiot Books in London where he will be reading from his Carcanet collection The Feeling Sonnets. Find out more here: www.facebook.com/events/11074...

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This week's PN Review Substack is an excerpt from Robert Bensen's article 'The Grave Levity of Derek Walcott', published in our most recent edition PN Review 286, November - December 2025. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

Super to see a Lynette Roberts poem; huge thanks to @carcanet.bsky.social for championing this revival of her remarkable work www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Our magazine @pnreview.bsky.social is part of our Xmas sale!🎄 Get 20% off single issues with code CARCMAS on the Carcanet website: www.carcanet.co.uk/ Or, get 15% off a PN Review subscription with code XMAS15 on the PNR website. Find out more: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

'This is a truly wonderful book... 130 pages of distillation, beauty and, often, extraordinary power.' Ian Pople for The High Window, on Daniel Huws' Debris. Read the rest: thehighwindowpress.com/category/rev... Get 20% off Debris with code CARCMAS: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017522...

Fantastic to see Lynette Roberts' poem 'Winter Walk' from her Carcanet collection A Letter to the Dead chosen by the Guardian as this week's 'Poem of the Week'! Read 'Winter Walk' here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d... Browse 'A Letter to the Dead' here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017505...

One of the editor’s favourite books of 2025: Thomas A Clark’s ‘thrums’ on @carcanet.bsky.social #beattentive

goodk kkkkk unjam ingwe nches lass? start again goodk lassw enche sking start again kings tart! again sorry… —Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s Second Christmas Card” published in COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1990 #poem #poetry #concretepoetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754188...

Last week, the poem 'A Moratorium' by Edwin Morgan was chosen by the Scotsman as their poem of the week. Read 'A Moratorium': www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots... Get Edwin Morgan's Collected Poems with code CARCMAS for 20% off: www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754188...

Find out more about the Jan/Feb titles included in our Christmas sale on our Substack!🎄⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

'Gabriel Josipovici is one of the leading writers and critics of his generation. He has been astonishingly prolific.' From 'Gabriel Josipovici at Eighty-Five' by David Herman, published in PN Review 286, our latest edition.⭐ Read for free here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/gabr...

Listen to Catherine-Esther Cowie discuss her T. S. Eliot nominated collection on podcast The Poems We Made Along The Way! 🎧⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/7JkI...? Get Heirloom:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017479...

Well, well, well. #poetsandplayers @carcanet.bsky.social

When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky. Why did you confirm my evil, he said… —Iain Crichton Smith, “Macbeth and the Witches” in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS: Selected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021 #poem #poetry #Shakespeare #Macbeth

🎁 Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 14 is 'A Line from Merwin' from 'Father's Father's Father' by Dane Holt @carcanet.bsky.social 🌹

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This week's PN Review: From the Archive features Two Poems by John F. Deane, published in PN Review 71, January - February 1990. Read here:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PNR: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

Happy publication day to our December book!🎉 🌾Jonah and Me by John F. Deane Get 20% off in our Christmas Sale with code CARCMAS - order now: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017524...

Watch young critic Aphra Le Levier-Bennett reviewing our T. S. Eliot nominated title, Heirloom, by Catherine-Esther Cowie:⬇️ youtu.be/ysqPl9nMfT0 @poetrysociety.org.uk @tseliotprize.bsky.social Get 20% off Heirloom with code CARCMAS: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017479...

This month, we are publishing Jonah and Me!🌾 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017524...

Have you shopped our Christmas sale?🎄✨ Check out some recommended titles included in the sale over on our Substack:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

'Answerlands is a must-read for anyone desperate for a break from the mundane.' Harry Spiers for the Indiependent, on Joseph Minden's Answerlands Read the full review: www.indiependent.co.uk/poetry-revie... Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Answerlands: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017517...

The recording of the online book launch held for Men of the Same Name by Evan Jones, hosted by Jim Johnstone, is up on our YouTube now! Click below to watch ⬇️ youtu.be/XAbPlAwMVSE

'Erica McAlpine's Small Pointed Things is a sheer delight.' The Scotsman, on Erica McAlpine's Small Pointed Things Get 20% off Small Pointed Things with code CARCMAS: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017477... Read the full review: www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...

'The end of the year, a dream within a dream; a time to pause, then try to go on giving.' From Rachel Hadas' poem 'As If for Life', published in PN Review 286, our latest edition. Subscribe to PN Review for more: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

in esteemed, fascinating and hilarious company tonight for the @northernfiction.bsky.social winter showcase 🫶 ❄️ 📚 tysm for having me @commapress.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social

What a wonderful opportunity to get hold of @carcanet.bsky.social #poetry titles at 20% discount … just add CARCMAS at the checkout … Do buy copies of my three books (Eleanor; A Kingdom of Love & my Rossetti Selected), but also buy everyone else’s books too …

2026 MONTREAL PRIZE JURY MEMBER SINÉAD MORRISSEY Sinéad Morrissey has published eight books with Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social, including her latest collection, “On Balance” (2017), which was awarded the Forward Prize. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poem #writer #writerscommunity

'Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be.' The Scotsman, on Colin Bramwell's Fower Pessoas Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fower Pessoas: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017464... Read the full article: www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...

'Fourth and Walnut provides... a joyful solace.' Laura Baliman for @poetrywales.bsky.social, on Jeremy Over's Fourth and Walnut Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Fourth and Walnut here:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017460...

We're excited to share that Catherine-Esther Cowie's debut collection Heirloom has been selected as a California Review of Books Best Poetry Book of 2025! Read the full list here: calirb.com/the-best-poe... Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Heirloom: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017479...

A lovely picture of Carcanet poet @evanpjones.bsky.social reading from his collection Men of the Same Name at a Poets & Players event in Manchester last weekend!

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'She [Meynell] deserves to be recognised as a pioneering female voice, rescued from dusty obscurity, and this volume may be the one to begin this process.' M. C. Caseley for Stride Magazine, on Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Read the review: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/anot...

From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 286, our latest issue. Read the full editorial on our Substack: open.substack.com/pub/pnreview... Subscribe to PN Review: www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

NFA WINTER SHOWCASE 📚⛄ 📅 TOMORROW @ 6:30pm 📍 @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f... Join us at Blackwell's for a cosy evening of stories, mince pies and wine 🥧🍷

'Huws offers a soft meandering through the maze of his extensive life and poetic experience.' Laura Baliman for @poetrywales.bsky.social, on Daniel Huws' Debris Use code CARCMAS for 20% off Debris here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017522...

Tomorrow at 6.30pm, join Evan Jones in Manchester for the Northern Fiction Alliance Winter Showcase. Evan will be reading from his latest Carcanet collection Men of the Same Name, alongside 4 other authors from other northern presses. Tickets:⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/northern-f...

'What is... the first and least remarkable thing about this story - is the extent to which Graeme Richardson buries the hatchet into the work.' From @rorywaterman.bsky.social's report 'Remarkable Coincidences', published in PN Review 286. Read for free: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...

'Pattern-Book is... extraordinary, because in its poems, “life / continues,”... lit by mortality from one side and by love from the other.' Jane Zwart for Plume, on Éireann Lorsung's Pattern-book Read the rest: plumepoetry.com/jane-zwart-r... Get Pattern-book: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017485...

oh man. very nice to wake up to this attentive and thoughtful review of #Pattern-book, thank you @janezwart.bsky.social, in Plume Poetry. the best reviews show you what you didn't know you did. it's a gift. thanks thanks thanks cc @carcanet.bsky.social plumepoetry.com/jane-zwart-r...

We're overjoyed that Richard Gwyn has been shortlisted for the 2025 Premio Valle Inclán Award for his translation of Invisible Dog by Fabio Morábito! www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017451... Congratulations to Richard, and all the other shortlisted translators and publishers! 🎉

Our Christmas sale is here!🎄 www.carcanet.co.uk To celebrate this holiday season, we're offering 20% off all our titles! Add code CARCMAS at our website checkout to claim your 20% discount and free UK P&P. www.carcanet.co.uk Last chance to order in time for Christmas is Thursday 18 December.