Over the past two decades Carcanet’s New Poetries anthologies have been discovering the best new poets in English, and have provided readers with their first taste of authors such as Sophie Hannah, Patrick McGuinness, David Morley and Sinéad Morrissey. Reviewing the latest volume in the Guardian Nicholas Lezard wrote ‘As anyone familiar with Schmidt's work and his first-rate magazine PN Review would agree, he is a man who knows his onions when it comes to poetry … And in Eleanor Crawforth he has found an excellent co-editor. She may be rather younger than the otherwise ageless-seeming Schmidt, if he will forgive me for mentioning this, but clearly she too has an excellent eye and ear for poetry … These are poets of all ages from early 20s to mid-60s, all writing in English but from around the world. There is still an abundance of poetic talent out there, and people vigilant enough to notice it. Give it a go. You'll like it.’

Carcanet | paperback |ISBN: 9781847771315