This thematic selection of Lamb's writings not only demonstrates his literary achievements; it forms a self-portrait of the writer: generous, amused, and gregarious, finding imaginative escape from gr
First published three years before the Jean de la Fontaine's Fables began to appear, the verse compositions in Complete Tales in Verse were the fruit of Fontaine's wicked delight in reading Boccacio's
This selection is taken from the full range of Symons' poetry and prose, revealing an experimental writer exploring art, literature, and music. A champion of the French symbolists, he was influential
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's reputation has sometimes been overshadowed both by the achievements of her husband, Robert Browning, and by the romantic story of their elopement. This selection recovers
Comic invention and an unrestrained sense of the absurd are explored in this collection of one of England's best-loved poets. Adored by generations of nonsense-loving children and treasured by adults
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 pu
The political, historical, and cultural forces that shaped the development of the Western film genre—especially the 30 years after World War II—are explored in this book. Addressing the treatment of N
Exile, family, and the survival of love are all topics explored in this collection of poetry. Born in Romania, Carmen Bugan's verse is rooted in her experience of Eastern Europe in the mid-1980s as a
Padraic Fallon created many radio plays during the 1950s, a time that is now recognised as the medium's golden age. These three plays, published for the first time - The Vision of Mac Conglinne (1953)
Close attention to life's minutiae permeates this collection of wry and optimistic poems that address the changing of the seasons and lasting friendships. English cricked commentaries, blackbirds' son
Wild and Wounded collects Michael Hamburger's shorter poems since Intersections(2000). It is published to mark the 80th birthday of one of Britain's leading poets of the last half-century. The dominan
Justo Jorge Padrón is one of Spain's leading poets. Born in Las Palmas, Grand Canary Island, in 1943, he is among the most representative poets of the Spanish Generation of the 1970s. The brilliance o
Resounding in this collection is the distinctive voice of Bluesman poet Matthew Welton, the heir apparent to Brautigan via Dylan, who makes tunes out of words. These poems give delight by means of the
"Demonstrating the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess’s poetry and verse, this collection contains extracts from his translations of the librettos of Carmen, Oberon, and others; of verse d
Including a wide variety of poems and dramatic monologues, this collection of Sidney Keyes’s work demonstrates the poet’s mastery of literature. Keyes was considered by some to be a prodigy, writing s
Revisiting familiar spots and considering life’s ironies, Allen Curnow’s collection of verse reviews the chances and accidents that lead to the present. Including structured and free verse and transla
Walt Whitman (1819-92) is the authentic voice of democratic America. After a childhood in Brooklyn, he spent many years in and around Manhattan and Washington, where he witnessed troops returning from
Peter Riley is chiefly interested in making a poetry that is “available” rather than “accessible.” The poem offers the reader entry into an experience of the world mediated by the passionate needs of
The first story in this classic collection evokes, not Portugal, but turn-of-the-century Amsterdam, a city of wealth and moral paradoxes. These are the paradoxes of Manuel Teixeira-Gomes' characters t
This collection is by the author of "Brunizem". Sujata Bhatt's poems talk of her native India and her native tongue - Gujarati, about America and Britain, and about Germany, where she now lives. Her p
This volume brings together, in definitive form, all of John Clare's important autobiographical writings. His Autobiographical Fragments, Journal, and Sketches are set alongside his famous Journey out
Edwin Morgan 'catches in full sight' in his lyric epiphanies, in the focus and refocus of sequences, the wily reification of words in concrete poems, the weird rhythms of sound poems. His transforming
First published in 1982, this is the "factless autobiography" of Bernardo Soares, one of the 72 literary personae or "heteronyms" with which Fernando Pessoa created the theatre of his absence. The cir
Ivor Gurney's poetic career was unusual. It began in 1917 and 1919 with two small volumes of verse (Severn and Somme and War's Embers, published by MidNAG/Carcanet). Then in 1922 he entered the asylum
In Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milne's poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, "Blueprints & Ziggurats" and "Lichens for Marxists". A Scottish
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
A 2017 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Following her groundbreaking 2014 début An Aviary of Small Birds ("technically perfect poems of winged heartbreak" – Observ
In these true stories, the acclaimed writer Robert Graves explores the worlds of two men intent on success. Wife to Mr. Milton is an exploration into the marriage of a man the author considered one of
Solemn, grand, vulnerable - and a little absurd: England in the 1880s. A young consul, Eca de Queiros, writes letters to his Brazilian readers, giving a dry, amused, not impartial account of the event
Lisbon: some years on from the bloodless revolution of 1974. A sculptor in the prime of life has rediscovered love and reviews the many women that have shaped the man he is today. From his mother and
To mark John Heath-Stubbs's eightieth birthday, Carcanet publishes his major essays. The earliest was written in 1945, the most recent half a century later. There is a notable continuity of concern th
This selection from the first thirty years of Donald Davie's poetry reveals an impassioned spirit advancing from Augustan reserve towards the treacherous, rewarding risks of modernism. As a critic, He
