The March-April 2018 issue of PN Review, one of the most outstanding poetry journals of our time. This issue's highlights include: winners and commendations from the PN Review Prize; a celebration
Frank Kuppner’s The Third Mandarin is made of 501 quatrains divided into five "books." Taken together, they collage an alternative Imperial China of drunk poets, grumpy sages, and sex-
Julian Turner’s Desolate Market takes as its tuning fork a line from William Blake’s Vela, or the 4 Zoas: "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." Fascinated by the interaction
The Antwerp-based poet Leonard Nolens (born in 1947) once claimed to be more interested in his "poetic identity" than in biography. His curriculum vitae should consist of his name and the thousand or
This is a book of two complementary halves. The first half, Grimspound, is a four-part work, part prose, part poetry, that distills ten years of writing on site at the Bronze Age compound on Dartmoor
John Heath-Stubbs was one of the defining poets of his age, a legendary performer (being blind, he recited even his major narrative poems from memory). This new selection by the young poet and critic
Sextus Propertius, the late Augustan poet, is best known today from Pound's famous "Homage," less a translation than brilliant experiment. Patrick Worsnip's new versions rise o
Rebecca Elson was an astronomer whose research involved dark matter—hidden mass which can be inferred only from its influence on observable objects: "As if, from fireflies, one could infer
In Nameless Country, edited by American poet, scholar and Yiddishist, Merle Bachman, and Jacobs' UK champion and former publisher, Anthony Rudolf, Jacobs returns to us a unique poet, "split at the foo
Charles Tomlinson writes about foreign places and people but stays close too to the English country landscapes and cityscapes where he spent much of his life. His style is both muscular and intensely
For nearly half a century Philip French’s writing on cinema has been essential reading for film-goers, cinephiles and anyone who enjoys witty, intelligent engagement with the big screen. His vas
The memories from which Fred D’Aguiar translates these poems are cultural and personal, from the anciencies of the Gilgamesh epic to the modern world, from classical philosophy to C.L.R. James a
"Madame Martin will throw back her shutters at eight…" With these words, Beverley Bie Brahic opens The Hotel Eden, a book about seeing the world. She moves through Paris, the French p
Philip Terry is the great re-inventor of poems. He has brought Dante's Inferno, Shakespeare's sonnets and Raymond Queneau's Elementary Morality alive in his wild, systematic reinventions.
Chris McCully has translated the Anglo-Saxon Riddles. Now he takes on the greatest Old English epic, devising a highly expressive prosody and providing a full introduction and rich up-to-date annotati
An annotated edition of selected essays by the major Victorian writer and aesthete Walter Horatio Pater, this volume brings together a generous selection of nonfiction writings on literature, art, his
Errant, Gabriel Levin’s sixth collection, opens and ends with invocations: of Venus at dawn and Hesperus at dusk. The book’s day takes us on a three-part planetary journey. "What Drew
Chris Wallace-Crabbe’s Rondo harvests a decade’s worth of new writing by one of Australia’s foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia’s current position
Who is Dustie-Fute? A vagrant, a hawker, a poet. A dustyfooted Scottish Orpheus. A stranger, a migrant, a ghost. In his search for Dustie-Fute, David Kinloch begins amid the Parisian floods of 1910: w
In These Days of Prohibition is Caroline Bird’s fifth Carcanet collection. As always, she is a poet of dark hilarity and telling social comment. Shifting between poetic and vulgar registers, the surre
Vahni Capildeo’s new book lives with things – carefully, lovingly: with glass, with moss, with stone. Venus as a Bear places the non-human world at its center, tenderly disclosing the ways in which it
From the first New Poetries anthology, published in 1994, through to this seventh volume, the series showcases the work of some of the most engaging and inventive new poets writing in English from aro
The Multiverse sings of science, philosophy, and religion, testing the emotional valences of each. It sings in a variety of strictly observed metres and with rhyme, and the poems subtly find their way
Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl reissued as a Carcanet Classic A Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the f
Reveling in the sycophancy and classist pretensions of England’s courts in the late 18th century, this ribald collection of satirical verse specializes in lampooning the public and private lives of th
Including all poems published in the previous three editions, this comprehensive new translation of Baudelaire's poetry is both vivid and authoritative. This dual-language volume presents both
Showcasing a diverse selection of new poetry from eight Caribbean poets, this anthology offers fresh perspectives from emerging and newly established poets who are forging a new and multifarious ident
Henry Reed was one of the most celebrated British poets of World War II. This collection traces Reed's life and attempts to establish Reed alongside the other great war poet
The first Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was published by Carcanet in 1982. Since then, more of her work has come to light, including some of the most moving and personal poems
King Driftwood teems with characters and narratives: treasure hunters, drug dealers, small-town eccentrics - blue-rinsed Mrs Dawes-Llewellyn, John the Song and Mothman, George Bush and Saddam Hussein
Exploring the everyday relationships of common people, this collection of portraits and commentary highlights the dichotomies between husbands and wives, actors and directors, a poet and his landscape
This landmark edition makes many of Yeats's early poems available to readers for the first time, along with many of his own notes about Irish mythology and folklore. Though he is best known for his la
Characterised by a rigorous attention to each word’s layers of etymology or latent semantic possibilities, Eric Langley’s debut collection takes its cue from the art-conservation technique of ?raking
