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Carcanet Press, founded in 1969, is an outstanding literary publisher with a comprehensive list of modern and classic poetry and related titles in English and translation.

Based in Manchester, UK, we publish around 35 titles per year, as well as 6 issues of our bi-monthy literary journal, PN Review, which is on Substack here.

In 2019, our 50th anniversary year, we won Northern Small Press of the Year in the British Book Awards. A live backlist of over 1000 titles includes literature from 37 languages and 50 nations. Nobel laureates Orhan Pamuk, Octavio Paz, José Saramago, Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz (Turkey, Mexico, Portugal, Russia and Poland respectively) are among our outstanding discoveries.

Learn more about us and buy our books at carcanet.co.uk.