Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection, All the Flowers Kneeling, charts the rebuilding of a self in the wake of extremity. How, it asks, can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity, a family,...

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 - 11th March 2027 For the first time in print! A definitive compilation of Nikki Giovanni’s best and most beloved poems from her extraordinary 60-year career. Nikki Giovanni’s poems are some of the most quoted, most memorable, and most talked about gems...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 26th March 2027 A major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic,...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 28th January 2027 WITH A FOREWORD BY JULIEN BAKER A long-buried love story comes to life. Emily Dickinson as you’ve never read her before. Emily Dickinson is one of our greatest poets.When her work was published posthumously in the 1890s, she...

Alongside her invaluable contributions to social justice, Pat Parker (1944-1989) wrote five collections of poetry during her lifetime and is widely recognised as one of the leading African-American, lesbian-feminist voices of the 20th Century. Selected Poems collects her most loved works into an accessible...

The Man in 119, the latest collection from accomplished poet Kazim Ali, explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world. Here, the tongue becomes a collaboration between human and glacial current—the self, a “tectonic topography of god.” Grappling with questions...

The selected journals of trans, mixed-race artist and dyke erotica writer Red Jordan Arobateau. Best known for his erotic lesbian fiction, Red Jordan Arobateau was also a prolific painter who maintained and self-published a journal for roughly twenty years, documenting his life on the...

Inspired by the commonplace book and medieval dream-visions, Jay Gao’s second collection unfolds through leaf-like fragments and long, branching lines that stretch across the page, creating a serial, visionary rewiring between nature and language.

In this one, the witch doesn’t burn or die or drown. In this one, she rages. In the witch doesn’t drown in this one, celebrated poetess amanda lovelace revisits the titular voice behind her 2018 bestselling collection the witch doesn’t burn in this one.With...

Featuring a new introduction by Jon Savage Everything I've ever done Everything I ever do Every place I've ever been Everywhere I'm going to Over a career that spans four decades and fourteen studio albums with Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant has consistently proved...

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...

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 than the clarity of arrival. This...

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...