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Say hello to our February titles! 🐟

Get 10% off these titles with code FEBBOOKS10 until the end of the month! Order here: 🔗
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Congratulations to @brambrella.bsky.social whose collection Fower Pessoas has been longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize!🎉

This annual award celebrates literature that comes from the rich landscape and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Well done to Colin!🎉
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Congratulations to Richard Gwyn who has been awarded the 2025 Premio Valle Inclán Award by @societyofauthors.bsky.social for his translation of Invisible Dog by Fabio Morábito!🎉

Richard will receive a prize of £3,000 for his win.

Well done Richard!🎉
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Build me a bridge over the stream
to my neighbour’s house
where he is standing in dungarees
in the fresh morning…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Neighbour”
published in NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011
#poem #poetry
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Iain Crichton Smith Neighbour Build me a bridge over the stream to my neighbour’s house where he is standing in dungarees in the fresh morning. O ring of snowdrops spread wherever you want and you also blackbird sing across the fences. My neighbour, if the rain falls on you, let it fall on me also from the same black cloud that does not recognise gates.
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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“I pictured them both in action, / underwater. Nancy’s legs wrapped around / its speeding shaft, her red eyes fixed like sniper / dots on the target ahead, a string of bubbles / flying out behind her like a chiffon scarf.” — @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, “Torpedo” @carcanet.bsky.social
NANCY AND THE TORPEDO. Nancy found an entire torpedo in the forest just lying there like a beached whale, coated in wet leaves and decorated with glittering snail trails. “It’s a fucking torpedo,” she said. “Is it... live?” I said. I didn’t know how torpedoes worked. Were they like mines? “It’s inert,” she said, suddenly an expert, “torpedoes don’t explode on land, everyone knows that.” She whistled like a plumber surveying a damp patch, “He’s a beauty alright. I reckon he weighs at least 600 pounds. 640, I’d say.” “He?” I said, but Nancy was already straddling it, spanking its rudder like the rump of a prize horse. “What’s a torpedo doing in a forest?” Nancy rolled her eyes. “You always ask the most obvious questions, don’t you? Can’t you just enjoy the moment?” She’d already unzipped her trousers and was touching herself, grinding up against the girth of the weapon and groaning gently. “Careful,” I said. Her orgasm gathered to a scream. She pressed her sweating face on the warhead and fell asleep on top of it. The torpedo precisely matched the length of her body. To my tired gaze, it seemed as if they were both breathing, Nancy and the torpedo, their chests rising and falling together like unsuspecting ocean waves. I pictured them both in action, underwater. Nancy’s legs wrapped around its speeding shaft, her red eyes fixed like sniper dots on the target ahead, a string of bubbles flying out behind her like a chiffon scarf. Eventually she woke, refreshed and cheerful, patted the torpedo goodbye, hoisted on her backpack and we continued our journey as if nothing had happened. “Where are we going?” she’d ask, every ten minutes or so. “We’ve just got to keep moving,” I’d reply, pointing in some arbitrary direction and striding with purpose, trying to channel the sexual energy of a self-propelled missile, “Keep on moving.” The dread swished around my gums like someone else’s tongue. If I had owned a penis it would have secretly shriveled in my pants. “We’ve passed this clearing before,” Nancy said. “Different clearing,” I said. “Those are our footprints from four days ago,” she said. “Different footprints,” I said. Then we saw the torpedo. Nancy laughed. “I suppose you’re going to tell me that’s a different torpedo?” It was getting dark and cold. “I love you. I just love you so much,” I said, as Nancy remounted, hugging it and whispering into its back, her mouth almost kissing the metal. That’s when I lost it. “I’M SORRY I’M NOT A FUCKING TORPEDO!” “I can’t... blast through shit I’m lost and I’m useless and I’ve got no fucking idea where I am or what I’m doing. There. I said it. Go ahead and dump me because I’m a piece of shit.” There was a long silence. Nancy straightened her spine like a dressage rider, looked at me for an age then said, “How many times do I have to prove it to you?” “Prove what?” I said. She sighed, “What could be more useless and impotent than a dud torpedo in a forest?” “I don’t understand,” I said. She peeled a snail from its propeller and threw it at me. “I know exactly who you are,” she said, slapping the steel, “you and him are headed in the same direction.” “You mean, nowhere?” She unzipped her trousers and reached down. Fat tears appeared on her cheeks like rain. I didn’t understand why she was crying. “You stupid idiot,” she said, her breath quickening as she rubbed and grinded, “Can’t you see I’m doing this for you? Can’t you see I’m exploding for the both of us?” Caroline Bird
February 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl?
Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl.
Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl…

—Edwin Morgan, “The Loch Ness Monster’s Song”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#WyrdWednesday #poem #poetry
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The Loch Ness Monster’s Song by Edwin Morgan Sssnnnwhuffffll? Hnwhuffl hhnnwfl hnfl hfl? Gdroblboblhobngbl gbl gl g g g g glbgl. Drublhaflablhaflubhafgabhaflhafl fl fl – gm grawwwww grf grawf awfgm graw gm. Hovoplodok – doplodovok – plovodokot-doplodokosh? Splgraw fok fok splgrafhatchgabrlgabrl fok splfok! Zgra kra gka fok! Grof grawff gahf? Gombl mbl bl – blm plm, blm plm, blm plm, blp.
February 4, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Say hello to our February titles! 🐟

Get 10% off these titles with code FEBBOOKS10 until the end of the month! Order here: 🔗
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February 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Graeme Richardson's poetry collection Dirt Rich arrived today and first impressions are excellent
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January 30, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Smoky sky.
In autumn wind
I stroll by the quays
in the last light…

—Edwin Morgan, “Je ne regrette rien: in memory of Edith Piaf”
1st published in THE SECOND LIFE, @edinburghup.bsky.social 1968
reprinted in COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
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Edwin Morgan Je ne regrette rien in memory of Edith Piaf Smoky sky. In autumn wind I stroll by the quays in the last light, my coat flaps, flaps, wet chestnut leaves spatter the Seine. I glance in a window and touch my hair, yes I am tiny as they say, tiny as a sparrow. Now the lights come on. I stand under the lamp, turn up my collar in a circle of rain and wait for you. It’s all beginning again. Dead leaves or spring it comes back, it begins. How could I struggle? When you held me, your shoulders were a wall, I sheltered in your shadow, it began. They say I couldn’t count my men – in thirty years I couldn’t count them! But who counts years? Count the years I was blind? Dandled in a brothel? Taught by whores? Count the prayers that gave me my sight at Lisieux? Or the heartbeats of my daughter, in thousands, when I bore her at fourteen till she starved and died? Count the crusts I’ve had, or those I’ve given? The gutters I’ve sung in, or the great halls? Count the glasses I’ve drunk? Count the beds I’ve lain in, the lips I’ve kissed? I can’t count the surgeons who’ve opened me – do you think my lovers are in a book? Do you want me to start counting tears? Count what? The cost? What cost? I won! No! let the men that had me go their ways. I regret nothing, nothing. Some were kind. But I don’t care if they were kind! I don’t remember if it was bad. I don’t keep the past in my pocket. I’ve paid for it all, I’ve forgotten it all. I’ve paid for it all, I’ve forgotten it all. I strike a match to my memories, they light a fire and disappear. I warm my arms tonight the fire begins the stars come out yes it begins I am forty-five it begins again I hear his step yes it begins his broad shoulders glisten through the rain I can see the dead cigarette in his firm mouth he throws it aside it begins and I regret nothing We sway in the rain, he crushes my mouth. What could I regret if a hundred times of parting struck me like lightning if this lightning of love can strike and strike again!
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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On Saturday 28 February at 7pm, join Joseph Minden at Housmans in London for the launch of his latest collection, Answerlands. Joseph will be joined by 4 other poets, who will be performing readings of their own.

Register for free tickets, or find out more here:
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Answerlands by Joseph Minden: London Book Launch - Carcanet Press
Join Joseph Minden on February 28th in London to celebrate the launch of his latest collection, Answerlands!
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January 30, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Happy publication day to our January books!🎉

🦆A Wild Goose Chase by Andrew McNeillie
🏦Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson

For a final few days, use the code JANBOOKS10 for 10% off and free UK P&P - order now:⬇️
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January 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Join us online to launch 'Dirt Rich' by Graeme Richardson on Tuesday 3 February at 7pm BST! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Jermey Noel-Tod and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
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Dirt Rich: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Join us online to celebrate the launch of Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson. The event will be hosted by Jeremy Noel-Tod.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The recording of the online book launch held for Answerlands by Joseph Minden, hosted by Will Harris, is up on our YouTube now! Click below to watch:⬇️
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Joseph Minden: Answerlands Book Launch
The recording of the online book launch held for Answerlands by Joseph Minden, hosted by Will Harris, on Tuesday 18 November 2025. Find out more info and buy the book here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800175174/answerlands/ Carcanet Press is supported by Arts Council England. Please consider donating to support our future work: https://www.paypal.me/carcanet Edited by Pixel Assist www.pixelassist.co.uk-
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January 27, 2026 at 1:16 AM
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The old lady struggles, footsteps careful, leaving shuffle marks in the snow…

—William Letford, “Winter in the World”
Published in BEVEL, @carcanet.bsky.social 2012
#poem #poetry
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Winter in the World by William Letford The old lady struggles, footsteps careful, leaving shuffle marks in the snow. No shopping bag, so maybe it’s church, and maybe not. Perhaps she is out for a walk, because she can, and the night is spare, and she is undiminished, and harder than bone.
January 26, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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Tomorrow at 7pm BST, join us online to launch 'Slow Puncture' by Miles Burrows! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Michael Schmidt, and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
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Slow Puncture: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Join us online to celebrate the launch of Miles Burrows new collection Slow Puncture on Tuesday 27 January.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Do join JN-T and me for this Zoom launch. Dress-code: naked from the waist down 👍
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Join us online to launch 'Dirt Rich' by Graeme Richardson on Tuesday 3 February at 7pm BST! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Jermey Noel-Tod and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/dirt-...
Dirt Rich: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Join us online to celebrate the launch of Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson. The event will be hosted by Jeremy Noel-Tod.
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January 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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Today’s Feature:

“Childhood Triptych” by Billy-Ray Belcourt from The Idea of an Entire Life published by @carcanet.bsky.social

Read here:
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Childhood Triptych
What I don't know about my childhood doesn't destroy me.
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January 24, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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13yrs ago Jim & I landed in Suffolk with no house, job or workshop but a hopeful plan to make furniture & write poems. Here we are together in the window at The Merchant’s Table
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Handmade wooden side table with drawer. Black lamp and books in its surface. Seen through shop window
January 25, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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From Michael Schmidt's editorial, taken from PN Review 287, our latest issue.

Read the full editorial on our PN Review Substack:🔗
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January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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Join us online to launch 'Dirt Rich' by Graeme Richardson on Tuesday 3 February at 7pm BST! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Jermey Noel-Tod and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/dirt-...
Dirt Rich: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Join us online to celebrate the launch of Dirt Rich by Graeme Richardson. The event will be hosted by Jeremy Noel-Tod.
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January 22, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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On Tuesday 27 January at 7pm BST, join us online to launch 'Slow Puncture' by Miles Burrows! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by Michael Schmidt, and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/slow-...
Slow Puncture: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Join us online to celebrate the launch of Miles Burrows new collection Slow Puncture on Tuesday 27 January.
www.carcanet.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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We're so proud to have Catherine-Esther Cowie on the T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist!

Congratulations to the winner Karen Solie, and all the other shortlistees.🎉

For a few more days, get 20% off Catherine-Esther's shortlisted book Heirloom with code TSELIOT20.⭐
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January 20, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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"Among Communists", de Sinéad Morrissey

Autobiografía | Marzo 2026 | Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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'Slow Puncture is a witty and refreshing collection.'
Amanda Holmes Duffy for @wirobooks.bsky.social on Miles Burrows' Slow Puncture.

Read the full review:
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Get Slow Puncture:
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On Poetry: January 2026 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Tomorrow at 7pm BST, Join us online to launch 'A Wild Goose Chase' by Andrew McNeillie! 💻📖

The event will be hosted by John Brannigan and will feature reading and discussion, alongside time for audience questions.

More information and tickets here:🎟️
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A Wild Goose Chase: Carcanet Online Launch - Carcanet Press
Please join us to celebrate the launch of A Wild Goose Chase by Andrew McNeillie, hosted by John Brannigan. The event will feature readings and
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January 19, 2026 at 6:30 PM