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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 4h

On Wednesday 15th October at 6pm, join SuAndi at the launch of her book Leaning Against Time!

The event will take place at Aviva Studios in Manchester, but will also be streamed online.

In-person tickets:
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Online tickets:
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SuAndi: Leaning Against Time: Carcanet Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the launch of Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems by SuAndi, published by Carcanet Press

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 6h

On Tuesday 28th October at 6pm, please join us at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge to celebrate the launch of Answerlands by Joseph Minden and The Banquet by Stav Poleg.

The event is free to attend, and tickets can be found here:⬇️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/stav-...

Stav Poleg & Joseph Minden: Carcanet Cambridge Book Launch - Carcanet Press

Join acclaimed poets Stav Poleg and Joseph Minden to celebrate their dual poetry launch! The event will feature readings and discussion by Stav and Joseph

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 8h

'To put the book [Red Carpet] down and then come back to it, is to encounter a poet with an endlessly interesting perspective on the world.'

Ian Pople, The High Window, on Steve Malmude's Red Carpet ⬇️
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Browse 'Red Carpet':
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017497...

Reviews – The High Window

Posts about Reviews written by The High Window Review

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 10h

From SuAndi's article on her new book Leaning Against Time, which is published this month!🕰️

Read in full here: open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 12h

As part of Winchester Poetry Festival, join Philip Terry in Winchester this Saturday 11 October where from 4-5pm he will be reading from and discussing his version of Dante's Purgatorio.

For more information, and to purchase tickets, see here:
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Translating the Classics: Naush Sabah, Philip Terry

Translations of Al-Būșīrī and Dante will be performed and discussed. As part of Winchester Poetry Festival 2025.

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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 1d

Reading in Oxford on 12 November, 6pm. I'll mainly read from my new(ish) @carcanet.bsky.social collection Come Here to This Gate, plus some of my earlier work. There will be a reading also by N.S. Thompson, and a public discussion about poetry. Do come! It's free.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant to see our upcoming October release 'thrums' by Thomas A Clark included in a review of the best recent poetry by the Guardian!

Read what Philip Terry had to say here:
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Browse 'thrums':
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017520...

The best recent poetry – review roundup

So Far So Good by Ursula K Le Guin; Thrums by Thomas A Clark; Sculling by Sophie Dumont; Magadh by Shrikant Verma

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 1d

This week our Meet the Author video is by SuAndi, whose collection Leaning Against Time is published this month!

To watch her introduce the collection and discuss some of the highlights, click the link below ⬇️
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Meet the Author: SuAndi Discusses Leaning Against Time: Selected Poems

YouTube video by Carcanet Press

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 1d

'This poet evidently has a tender eye for the off-whack, and a keenness to take an experimental approach... to address emotively charged content. I appreciate his approach in this poem.'

Stephen Payne on Jeremy Over's Fourth and Walnut.
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Stephen Payne reviews 'Fourth & Walnut' by Jeremy Over (Carcanet, 2025)

The Friday Poem on 3rd October 2025

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

Join us online to launch Stav Poleg's second collection The Banquet with Leo Boix on Wednesday 29 October at 7pm BST!💻 📖

As ever the event will feature readings, discussion and we will also make time for audience questions.

More info and tickets are here:
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/the-b...

The Banquet by Stav Poleg: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press

Please join us to celebrate the launch of The Banquet by Stav Poleg. The reading will be hosted by Leo Boix.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

'Cannon excels in letting us know of hidden wonders, of human adventures and pastoral splendours, and it is from within nature that some of the strongest poems arise.'

Colin Dardis for 'Everybody's Reviewing' on Moya Cannon's 'Bunting's Honey':
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Review by Colin Dardis of "Bunting’s Honey" by Moya Cannon

A persistent theme is the danger of forgetting, of lost words and times. "And Now The Babies" laments that "no one can figure out again, | h...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

Our monthly discount is on!⭐

To celebrate Black History Month, enjoy 10% off all books published by our black poets using the code BHMBOOKS10 at checkout until the end of the month.
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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

We're overjoyed to share that Catherine-Esther Cowie's debut collection Heirloom has been shortlisted for a 2025 @tseliotprize.bsky.social!

Well done Catherine-Esther, and all the other shortlisted poets and publishers! 🎉

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, please privately message us your email and we will send you a copy

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

SuAndi is coming to Leicester! Join her at the Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage at 7pm on Thursday 23rd October for the launch of her new book, 'Leaning Against Time'!🕰️

For tickets and more information:
www.serendipity-uk.com/event/suandi...

SuAndi: Leaning Against Time – Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage

www.serendipity-uk.com

Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 2d

This week, join Claudine Toutoungi in London (or online) for The Poetry Review's Autumn launch readings!

The event is free to attend, but requires registration. For the in-person event:⬇️
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

To watch online:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

The Poetry Review Autumn 2025 launch (in person) – The Poetry Society

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Safa Khatib (video), Matthew Dickman, Joelle Taylor, Claudine Toutoungi and Safia Elhillo (video).

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 3d

Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “For Angus MacLeod”
New Collected Poems, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011

Today is #WorldTeachersDay. In this poem Iain Crichton Smith, himself a teacher, celebrates the life of a former Headmaster of Oban High School
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Iain Crichton Smith
For Angus MacLeod
Headmaster, and Editor of Gaelic Poems

Today they laid him in the earth’s cold colour,
a man from Lewis with his seventy-five
years struck from his head. Teacher, scholar,
he had worked a true task when all alive,

building a school, elucidating texts.
The Gaelic shone quite clearly in his bones.
A casket filled with ashes had been mixed
with filtered sunlight and the small stones.

A useful life with pupils and with poems:
sufficient honours (his humour asked no more)
he takes his place in many minds and rooms.
Without their knowing it, his patient care

instructs far hands to turn a new lever,
a voice to speak in a mild-mannered tone.
The deeds we do reverberate forever.
Inveterate justice weighs the flesh and bone.

His best editions are some men and women
who scrutinise each action like a word.
The truest work is learning to be human
definitive texts the poorest can afford.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 3d

I have met old teachers in strange places.
Some have had strokes, some play the violin
in a quiet little heaven of their own…

—Ian Crichton Smith, “Teachers”
in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020
#poem #poetry #teaching #WorldTeachersDay
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Teachers
by Iain Crichton Smith

I have met old teachers in strange places.
Some have had strokes, some play the violin
in a quiet little heaven of their own.
And some are standing on the banks of Hades
with books about Julius Caesar in their hands,
English grammar, absolute ablative.
Sometimes a huge wind blows them away,
the leaves of autumn. Sometimes in the snow
wearing their gowns of chalk they are writing.
I have met the old teachers in strange places
and there are apples trembling in their hands.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 3d

On Saturday 11th October join Carcanet's Managing Director Michael Schmidt and two Carcanet poets at the Brontë Parsonage Museum for a day of poetry!

For more information, and to purchase tickets, see here:
www.bronte.org.uk/events/poetr...

Poetry at the Parsonage Day | The Brontë Parsonage Museum

Join us for a day of poetry in Haworth, inspired by Yorkshire people, places and landscape. We’ll hear from both established and new poets from across the

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 4d

Tomorrow at 6pm, Moya Cannon will feature in a radio programme on RTÉ's Lyric FM. There, she will be reading from some of her Carcanet poetry and talking to people who live and work in the Burren, Ireland.

Tune in at this link to hear her speak!
www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

The Lyric Feature - RTÉ lyric fm

The Lyric Feature presents original documentaries and music specials. Producer: Eoin O Kelly, Production Co-Ordinator: Michael O'Kane

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 5d

On Wednesday 8th October, join Claudine Toutoungi in London (or online) for The Poetry Review's Autumn launch readings!

The event is free to attend, but requires registration. For the in-person event:⬇️
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

To watch online:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

The Poetry Review Autumn 2025 launch (in person) – The Poetry Society

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Safa Khatib (video), Matthew Dickman, Joelle Taylor, Claudine Toutoungi and Safia Elhillo (video).

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 5d

On Sunday 26th October at 7pm, join Hal Coase for an in-person book launch in Rome! Hosted by Carmen Gallo, Hal will be discussing and reading from his recent collection Eccolo at Le Bici ASD, Via Giovannipoli.

For more information:⬇️
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/eccol...

Eccolo by Hal Coase: Carcanet Rome Book Launch - Carcanet Press

Join Carcanet poet Hal Coase in Rome for the in-person launch of his collection Eccolo! The event will feature readings and discussion by Hal on his new

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 5d

Tomorrow at 6.30pm, join @rorywaterman.bsky.social at Louth Words Festival where he will be reading from his Carcanet collection 'Come Here to this Gate'.

The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
www.zerodegreeslouth.org.uk/home/louth-s...

Louth Words Festival 2025 – Zero Degrees Arts Festival Louth

A Festival of the Spoken Word with a Local Flavour. Free to attend for all Celebrating Poetry, Lincolnshire Dialect, Prose and Oral History Open Mic events for

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 5d

'Huws has always had that Welsh gift of using nature to narrate the seasons of "man," ... everything, or nothing, is mundane, or mythical.'

Debasish Lahiri or Everybody's Reviewing on Daniel Huws' 'Debris'

Read in full here:
everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Review by Debasish Lahiri of "Debris" by Daniel Huws

Sometimes poetry can be the disturbance of clear blue skies, shaking the airline passengers, briefly, from their polite boredom into mild al...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 5d

We're delighted to see so many of our poets featured in the 2026 Forward Book of Poetry!💐

Included from Carcanet are: Catherine-Esther Cowie, @profdavidmorley.bsky.social, Fawzia Muradali Kane and Rebecca Watts.

Congratulations to all four of our poets, and all the other poets included!

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