Carcanet Press

Carcanet Press is one of the outstanding independent literary publishers of our time. Now in its fifth decade, Carcanet publishes the most comprehensive and diverse list available of modern and classic poetry in English and in translation, as well as a range of inventive fiction, Lives and Letters and literary criticism.

In 2000 it was named the Sunday Times Millennium Small Publisher of the Year. Five of its authors have received Nobel Prizes, nine have received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and seven have received Pulitzer Prizes, among many other honours. Its FyfieldBooks - popularly-priced selections from the great European and American classics, from ancient to modern times - are at the core of its activities. So too is its OxfordPoets imprint, formerly the poetry list of Oxford University Press. Other imprints include Northern House, Lintott Press and Sheep Meadow Press.

Carcanet issues the controversial and illuminating literary magazine PN Review which appears six times a year and celebrated its 200th issue in summer 2011. It also distributes the short fiction specialist Comma Press, and the Optic Nerve Rockdrill CD Series, in collaboration with Birkbeck College, London.

Carcanet also publish a series of European poetry in translation anthologies in association with the Scottish Poetry Library.

Scottish poets

Carcanet Press has published these Scottish poets:

Iain Bamforth
Thomas A. Clark
Peter Davidson
Gerrie Fellows
Robert Henryson
David Kinloch
Frank Kuppner
Peter McCarey
Gerry McGrath
Sorley MacLean
Hugh MacDiarmid
Kei Miller
Edwin Morgan
Richard Price
Sir Walter Scott
Iain Crichton Smith
Muriel Spark
Margaret Tait

Scottish poetry titles

Carcanet Press has published the following Scottish poetry titles in 2012:

Margaret Tait, Poems, Stories and Writings, edited by Sarah Neely
 

Carcanet Press published the following Scottish poetry titles in 2011:

David Kinloch, Finger of a Frenchman
Peter McCarey, Collected Contraptions
Iain Crichton Smith, New Collected Poems, edited by Matthew McGuire

Submission guidelines

Carcanet considers submissions and book proposals submitted in hard copy form only. For full submission information and to listen to an interview with Michael Schmidt about submissions, please visit http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=ip002

Contact details

www.carcanet.co.uk