The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular "Writing Challenges" literature podcast, this is Morley's most political work yet. He gives imaginative voice to the natural world and those silenced or overlooked,...

The first UK Selected of one of the UK's most acclaimed contemporary poets.

In "Flourish", multiple meanings catch light – as the leaves of growing things might, or the facets of cut gemstones, or a signal mirror flashing in distress. These poems explore themes of thriving, growth, innovation, and survival, while immersing t...

The winning volume in the 1972 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is a collection of richly anecdotal, lyric poems. Robert Hass writes about the California coast, about birds, fish, books, friends, present sensations, and the impingements of th...

The Yale Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Its winners include some of the most influential voices in American poetry, including Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Margaret Walker, Carolyn Forche, and Robert Hass...

Considered among the most important collections of poetry written by a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance, For My People is a series of ballad poems with memorable characters, including the New Orleans sorceress Molly Means; Kissie Lee, a t...

Fur Coats in Tahiti is a cocktail of borrowed forms and modes from Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, the OuLiPo, the Vienna Group, and the New York school. Jeremy Over mixes collage, doodles, erasures, findings, and mistranslations to create unlikely meeting...

"A Few Interiors" is the debut collection from an alumna of Carcanet's "New Poetries" series, and a recent favourite in the pages of "PN Review". Rowland Bagnall's poems are, in various ways, about seeing things – movies, paintings, landscapes, rooms...

Surrealism comes of age in Champion's welcome return to British poetry.

Who are the lords of labor? The owners, or the working bodies? In this smart, ambitious, and powerful book, David Gewanter reads the body as creator and destroyer – ultimately, as the broken mold of its own work. Haunted by his father's autopsy of a...