Includes "Penelope's Song" in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's "Odyssey". This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the "nostos", the homecoming.
The definitive reader for one of the greatest living French poets and translators.
This volume collects the five major books of one of Ireland's leading writers.
Chinua Achebe's poetic output is gathered together in this volume by arguably the most influential African writer of the 20th century.
A collection of essays on nature and the environmental crisis from the former National Poet of Wales.
A daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and not be consumed by it.
Collects five long, serial poems which the American master John Ashbery left unfinished.
Highly anticipated new collection from the author of 2018's acclaimed Now We Can Talk Openly About Men.
Carcanet's Graham Greene Film Reader reissued as a Carcanet Classic, the only book to collect his written contributions to the world of cinema.
A new collection from Eavan Boland, a pioneering figure in Irish poetry who has been credited with inspiring a generation. This will be her final collection, following her passing in April 2020.
Presents an exploration of what it means to be a writer and a woman in contemporary society.
This volume is a collection of Thomas Kinsella's work from 1956 to 1994, making his earlier works accessible in one volume.