Caroline Bird is one of Carcanet's most popular poets. Her startling instinct for metaphor, the courage of her choice of subjects and the integrity of her witness, set her apart: a poem is a risk, and it has to be a risk worth taking...

Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare In 1841 the 'peasant poet' John Clare escaped from an asylum in Epping Forest, where he had been kept for four years, and walked over eighty miles home to Northamptonshire. Suffering from poor mental health, Clare...

This is the third Selected Poems by Edwin Morgan from Carcanet, but the first since 2000 and the first to cover the full range of his poetry from his first collection in 1952 to his last in 2010, the year of his death at...

Mark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men,...

In Throatbone, Maddrell asks us to consider the way memory, home, history and empire confer to shape our understanding of one another. Poems which at times stretch and contort to subtly lead us back into the way of the personal through anecdote, imagery and...

Shortlisted for the Poetry Pigott Prize in association with Listowel Writers' WeekThrough four highly acclaimed collections, Colette Bryce has steadily consolidated her position as one of the most important of the younger generation of Irish poets. Possessed of a preternaturally acute ear and eye,...

Reminiscent of one of this century's great elegies, Denise Riley's A Part Song, The M Pages is similarly probing, hurt, skeptical and smarting. . . in a book packed with good poems.' Irish Times. The reader might be justified in thinking that the 'M' in...

Stories that Speak for Freedom A varied and thought-provoking collection of short stories and poems for teens with a conscience, with striking cover illustrations by award-winning children's laureate Chris Riddell. With contributions from Frances Hardinge, Sarah Crossan, Matt Haig, Neil Gaiman and many more....

PRE-ORDER NOW - 16th November 2026 A vast system crash in the virus garden. Matthew Haigh’s second collection is a single, electrifying sequence on chronic kidney disease, dialysis, transplant and the body re-entering the world. With the cut-up wit and pop-cultural intensity that made...

In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence, and a sense of infinity. The result...

An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor. In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men “buy him things,” lovers drive...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 5th November 2026 New Southern Voices Poetry Book Prize winner Acie Clark’s debut collection asks us to lean into conversation. Acie Clark wants to talk. In his debut collection, Clark reconsiders our relationship to talking about work and the weather.These poems...

A landmark collection of poems by Bambi Lake, the beloved (and bad-mouthed) icon of San Francisco’s counterculture. Bambi Lake was a trans chanteuse performer, provocateur, and countercultural darling of the ‘70s, and subsequent decades. “The Glamorous Life follows me around,” she wrote, and sang...

NAMED ONE OF LITERARY HUB'S "MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026 A poetic study in magical modes of connection over distance—how both friendship and reading are similar ways of being together while being alone. Written over several years of solitude, study, and transformation, the poems...

A book of transition- poetic, political, religious—and its always radical implications. Occupied with trans spirituality, the genocide in Palestine, and the manifold intricacies of queer love and struggle, the poems in imogen smith’s second collection, raw & zero, open up an unabashedly musical incitement...

A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and self-promotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulnerability of falling in love. Drunk Muppets ponder the uselessness of art.A transitioning drag queen muses on being "the crazy one, the one who doesn't give a fuck."In...

Menagerie Street is a striking debut poetry collection inspired by Thrutopia, a movement where we move through future difficulty, in hope without being naïve. Formally playful and emotionally generous, Hilary Watson’s poems move between humour and gravity, attentive to animals, landscapes, queer desire, bodies,...

Tweaking working-class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song, Gwen Aube’s hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious, debaucherous carnival of trailer-trash divas and Discord autistics, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital.Like a digital-age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 1st October 2026 Winner of the Backwaters Prize in PoetryThe word "hum" in Urdu can mean both "we" and "I." In English, it's a gesture of sound—a vibration. Sanam Sheriff's HUM is a trans call to the beauty of attempt rather...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 5th November 2026 Meditations on the beauty of an ordinary lifeMeditating on the beauty of an ordinary life, Sanna Wani’s Lantern explores how we fall in love and make a home. What does it mean to belong to a city, or...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 15th January 2027 Centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire, as new global empires sought to enshrine the art and literature of their ancient predecessor, some inconvenient truths were lost in translation. Queer love and desire–expressed freely and variously throughout...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 24th September 2026 Stanley Iyanu takes the reader on a poetic voyage in search of the beautiful boys four characters and sections: the Libertine, the Outcast, the Villain, and the Joker. Exploring themes of mythology, memory, modern love, and loss, the...

Introducing readers to five trans and nonbinary poets Splendor is an ode to queer bodies, with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec. From the irreverent and irresponsible to the quiet and meditative these poems decentralize our ideas of trans experience and...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 26th January 2027 In Maxanax Chempapísi / Bloodwriting lyric poems exploring Esselen words and concepts traverse a supporting cast of prose poems about contemporary life as a queer, Indigenous recovering academic. Deborah A. Miranda witnesses the lives of women who are...

A groundbreaking anthology amplifying queer Palestinian voices through art and storytelling that reclaim identity, resist erasure, and challenge stereotypes.Homosexual Intifada is a powerful and groundbreaking anthology spotlighting the voices of queer Palestinian writers from both the diaspora and homeland. This first-of-its-kind collection features a...

In this “more-than-human lyric,” Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes offers the ampersand, a mode of encounter that unfixes the reader. This form, a lyric prose poem beginning, midsentence, with an ampersand, accesses the intimacies of a life shaped by perpetual “and-ing.”These ampersands move by associative...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 5th November 2026 With gentle fervour and precise language that speaks to the nonverbal, the gestural, the sonic, Jody Chan’s third collection of poetry mobilizes the intimate, the historical, the revolutionary, and the mundane to confront the instrumentalization of disability as...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 29th October 2026 The rock opera Bark of Millions is an incomparable celebration of queerness, and here from its award-winning creators Taylor Mac and Matt Ray is the experience in book form, including lyrics and music for 50 of the show’s songsBark of...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 10th November 2026 Part reckoning with a father's chronic illness, part coming of age in the Upper South, part meditation on the slow, painful accumulation of adulthood, Another Man considers issues of family, care, and inheritance. These powerful poems capture unexpected...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 20th October 2026 The third collection from John A. Robertson Award– and Pushcart Prize–winning poet David Meischen, looking at the joys, the struggles, and the contradictions of aging. In this gorgeous assembly of poems, award-winning poet David Meischen candidly examines how...