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Bookshops from around the world

City Lights in San Francisco

Shakespeare & Co in Paris

Atlantis Books in Greece

Desperate Literature in Madrid

Almost Corner Bookshop in Rome

Acqua Alta Bookshop in Venice 

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Bookshops from around the world including Greece, Venice, Rome, Madrid, Paris and San Francisco 

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Are you taking part in the Independent Bookshop Week #bookshopcrawl? 

Join us!

Read all about it here. 

To the bookshops!

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http://independentbooksellersweek.org.uk/

#IBW2015

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Parallax Sinead Morrissey Winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection Winner of the 2014 Irish Times Poetry Now Award The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion Kei Miller Winner of the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Book Awards for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Prize Her Birth Rebecca Goss Shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection Longlisted for the 2015 Warwick Prize for Writing An Aviary of Small Birds Karen McCarthy Woolf Shortlisted for the 2015 Felix Dennis (Forward) Prize for Best First Collection Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Gluck Shortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection Gathering Evidence Caoilinn Hughes Winner of the 2015 Shine/Strong Award Shortlisted for the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection Finalist in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards This is Yarrow Tara Bergin Winner of the 2014 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection Winner of the 2014 Shine/Strong Award Shortlisted for the 2014 Irish Times Poetry Now Award Missel-Child Helen Tookey Shortlisted for the 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection

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Our lovely July books in the (brief) English summer sun 

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Seven generations of Carcanet editors congregated at the Rylands Library in Manchester on 15 June 2015 to celebrate the life of Lord Bob Gavron, Carcanet's Proprietor and Patron for over 30 years. 

Top picture from left to right: Michael Schmidt, Robyn Marsack, Matthew Frost, Helen Tookey, Judith Willson , Luke Allan, Mike Freeman.

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The dynamic sales and marketing duo Alice and Katie being photographed in front of our #alice150 poetree by Bokeh Yeah’s Julie Spellman. Watch this space for forthcoming poem-film collaborations!

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#poemoftheday

‘The War Works Hard’ by Dunya Mikhail from The War Works Hard

‘Waterloo Teeth’ by John Whale from Waterloo Teeth

‘Fall: Five Poems’ by Jee Leong Koh from Steep Tea

‘Vigil’ by Sheri Benning from The Season’s Vagrant Light

‘The Fiddler of Dooney’ by W.B. Yeats from The First Yeats 

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Our Canadian poet Sheri Benning sent us these Saskatoon chocolates from her home town of Saskatchewan - plus a polar bear!

Sheri writes about growing up in the Canadian prairie lands in her new collection The Season’s Vagrant Light

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WRITING 2015 

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/prizeforwriting/news/2015longlist 

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We’re delighted to announce that Rebecca Goss’ Her Birth has been longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing - the only poetry collection on the list!

Congrats Rebecca!

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The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is for poems written by any young poet aged 11-17. Since it began 15 years ago the Award has kick-started the career of some of today’s most exciting new voices. It is the largest competition of its kind and is free to enter.

Each year 100 winners (85 Commendations and 15 Overall Winners) are selected by a team of high profile judges. The winners receive their awards at an annual prize-giving event on National Poetry Day.

The competition is now open for entries. The closing date is Midnight, GMT on 31 July 2015. Find out more and enter online.

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Una librería muy emblemática! (ilustración de Jocelyn Kao)

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We're keen to find out more about our Carcanet and PN Review readership. You can help us out by filling out this short survey about our books, eletter and social media platforms. 

Thanks!!

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Our beautiful July titles 

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'A few mothers I return to over and over again to continue our conversations—Eavan Boland, on marriage, history, and the forked tongue of colony; Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, on love and religion; Elizabeth Bishop, on travel and migration; and Singaporean Tzu-Pheng Lee, on the hardnosed culture of a young nation. I am grateful for these talks. In their passion for their subjects and their devotion to poetic craft, they challenge me to be a better person and poet.'

This week on the blog, Singaporean poet Jee Leong Koh considers motherhood and the female poets who inspired him to start writing. Plus get 25% off his brand new collection Steep Tea, out now with Carcanet!