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Say hello to our November titles!🌀
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On Wednesday 19 November at 11am, join Colin Bramwell in Coatbridge Library, where he will be exploring how language brings us closer to others, referring his Carcanet collection Fower Pessoas.
The event costs £2, and tickets can be purchased here:
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Scriever and Freens Tour: Familiar Forms wi Colin Bramwell
Join Taylor Dyson and Colin Bramwell as they reflect on how poetry and language can foster connections across both local and global communities.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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⭐Discount Spotlight: Library Lives by Stella Halkyard🏫

Carcanet's monthly discount has launched! This month, enjoy 20% off a selection of books from our Lives and Letters collection by using the code LETTERS20 at our website checkout:⬇️
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017437...
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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'Goodison’s The Inferno is dynamic, punchy, and often funny.'
Amanda Perry for The Walrus, on Lorna Goodison's Dante's Inferno.

Read the article:
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Browse Dante's Inferno:
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Hell Is a Lot of Fun in Lorna Goodison’s Update of Dante’s Inferno | The Walrus
The brilliant translation sends readers to an underworld of Caribbean colonizers, politicians, and pop-culture villains
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November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Join us online at 7pm on Tuesday 25 November for the launch of A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts.

Editors Patrick McGuiness and Charles Mundye will hold an evening of reading and discussion around the new collection.
For information and tickets, see here:
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts: Carcanet Online Launch
Join us to celebrate the online book launch of A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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This month, we are publishing Answerlands by Joseph Minden!🐌
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017517...

You can now pre-order Answerlands using the code NOVBOOKS10 for 10% off and free UK P&P from our website checkout.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The recording of the online book launch held for The Banquet by Stav Poleg, hosted by Leo Boix, is up on our YouTube now! Click below to watch: ⬇️
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Stav Poleg: The Banquet Book Launch
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November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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‘I am not prepared to let Moscow dictate to Glasgow.’
Failures may be interesting, but it is the firmness
of what he wanted and did not want
that raises eyebrows…

—Edwin Morgan, “On John Maclean”
from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
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Edwin Morgan On John Maclean ‘I am not prepared to let Moscow dictate to Glasgow.’ Failures may be interesting, but it is the firmness of what he wanted and did not want that raises eyebrows: when does the quixotic begin to gel, begin to impress, at what point of naked surprise? ‘I for one will not follow a policy dictated by Lenin until he knows the situation more clearly.’ Which Lenin hadn’t time to, and parties never did – the rock of nations like the rock of ages, saw-toothed, half-submerged, a cranky sputtering lighthouse somewhere, as often out as lit, a wreck of ships all round, there’s the old barnacled ‘Workingclass Solidarity’, and ‘International Brotherhood’ ripped open and awash, while you can see the sleekit ‘Great-Power Chauvinism’ steaming cannily past on the horizon as if she had never heard of cuius regio. Maclean wanted neither the maimed ships nor the paradox of not wanting them while he painfully trimmed the lighthouse lamp to let them know that Scotland was not Britain and writs of captains on the Thames would never run in grey Clyde waters. Well, nothing’s permanent. It’s true he lost – a voice silenced in November fog. Party is where he failed, for he believed in people, not in partiinost’ that as everyone knows delivers the goods. Does it? Of course. And if they’re damaged in transit you make do? You do – and don’t be so naive about this world! Maclean was not naive, but ‘We are out for life and all that life can give us’ was what he said, that’s what he said.
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Join us online to launch 'Answerlands' by Joseph Minden on Tuesday 18 November at 7pm BST! 💻📖

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

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/answe...
Answerlands by Joseph Minden: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press
Please join us online to celebrate the launch of Joseph Minden's new poetry collection Answerlands!
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Join a number of our poets, including Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Lorna Goodison, and Colin Bramwell from 21st-23rd November at various events at Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out!

This year's programme:
pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Programme - 2025 Push The Boat Out Festival
Can’t wait for Push the Boat Out? Get into the festival spirit by joining Marjorie Lotfi, poet and co-founder of Open Book, for an exploration of poetry from a handful of poets appearing at the festival. Expect to go away with new favourites! No homework or experience is required.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Listen to Joseph Minden discuss the inspiration behind his new collection Answerlands, which is being published later this month!🐌

To watch him discuss some of the inspiration behind the collection, click the link below ⬇️
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November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Tomorrow! Join Alberto Manguel at the John Rylands Library in Manchester for the first annual Rylands Lecture.

The event is free, but requires a ticket. For more information, see here:⬇️
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The Rylands Lecture
Join us for the first annual The Rylands Lecture delivered by Alberto Manguel director of the Espaço Atlântida Library, in Lisbon, Portugal.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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On Thursday 27 November at 7pm, join John F. Deane in Dublin for the in-person launch of his new collection, Jonah and Me!

The event is free, but for more information see here: ⬇️
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Jonah and Me by John F. Deane: Carcanet Dublin Book Launch - Carcanet Press
Join us for the launch of John F. Deane's new poetry collection Jonah and Me on Thursday 27 November in Dublin.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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From Joseph Minden's article on his new collection Answerlands.🐌
Read in full here:
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November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Join us at 7pm on 25 November in Leeds for the launch of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology!
Winner Dillon Jaxx will be speaking, alongside shortlistees Lucy Holme and Adam Panchini.

The event is free but requires a ticket. For more information:⬇️
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Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology Launch
Join us for the launch of the third Brotherton Poetry Prize anthology. The night will...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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'During her readings, the audience kept quiet, hanging onto each captivating word. In between each poem, as Khalvati reflected upon herself, laughter and joy spread across the historic chamber.'

Lior Klein for The Mancunion, on Mimi Khalvati's Rylands Reading.
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“Above all there was song”: Mimi Khalvati at the annual Rylands Poetry Reading - The Mancunion
The acclaimed poet Mimi Khalvati came to the John Rylands Library for a spellbinding night of poetry.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Today at 6.15pm, join Alex Wong , Laura Mulvey, and other speakers at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge for an in-person book launch of Alice Meynell's Selected Poems and Essays.

To purchase a ticket (priced at £5), see here:⬇️
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Alice Meynell Poems - Carcanet Launch, at Heffers Bookshop
Join us on the 10th of November as a selection of local Carcanet authors read from the new collection of Alice Meynell's poetry
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Have you shopped our monthly discount yet? This month, use code LETTERS20 for 20% off selected titles in our Lives and Letters collection at the checkout on our website:⬇️
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Carcanet Press
One of the outstanding literary publishers of our time, Carcanet Press has a special emphasis on poetry from around the world.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Join a number of our poets, including Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Lorna Goodison, and Colin Bramwell from 21st-23rd November at various events at Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out!

This year's programme:
pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Programme - 2025 Push The Boat Out Festival
Can’t wait for Push the Boat Out? Get into the festival spirit by joining Marjorie Lotfi, poet and co-founder of Open Book, for an exploration of poetry from a handful of poets appearing at the festival. Expect to go away with new favourites! No homework or experience is required.
pushtheboatout.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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⭐Discount Spotlight: Fifty Fifty: Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters, edited by Robyn Marsack📙

Carcanet's monthly discount has launched! This month enjoy 20% off a selection of books from our Lives and Letters collection by using code LETTERS20 at our website checkout:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978178410878...
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Join us online at 7pm on Tuesday 25 November for the launch of A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts.

Editors Patrick McGuiness and Charles Mundye will hold an evening of reading and discussion around the new collection.
For information and tickets, see here:
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts: Carcanet Online Launch
Join us to celebrate the online book launch of A Letter to the Dead: Collected Poems by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks.
www.carcanet.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Join us online to launch 'Answerlands' by Joseph Minden on Tuesday 18 November at 7pm BST! 💻📖

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

More information and tickets here:🎟️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/answe...
Answerlands by Joseph Minden: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press
Please join us online to celebrate the launch of Joseph Minden's new poetry collection Answerlands!
www.carcanet.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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The recording of the in person book launch held for Leaning Against Time by SuAndi, hosted by Dave Moutrey, is up on our YouTube now! Click below to watch:⬇️
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SuAndi: Leaning Against Time Book Launch
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November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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'Neither poet, poem nor reader is led into a closed room, but a play area for imaginative patterning.'

Carol Rumens on Éireann Lorsung's poem 'Simile', which was chosen as the Guardian's Poem of the Week this week!

Read the article:⬇️
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Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung
An elegant reflection on experience and imagination complicates a very familiar figure of speech
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November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM