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| Clockwise from top left: Chris Beckett, Kei Miller, Kay Ryan, Greg Woods |
Friday 22nd to Monday 25th August is Manchester's Big Weekend, our annual celebration of the city's LGBT community which takes place in the world-renowned Gay Village. Packed full of events from film screenings, live music, club nights, and of course the parade through the city centre, to Pride Fringe, Supersonic, and a candlelit vigil on the final night, Pride Weekend remains one of the highlights of Manchester's cultural scene.
Here at Carcanet, we're proud to be a publisher of world-class poetry, and this weekend we're celebrating our outstanding LGBT poets with 30% off selected titles for a limited time only:
Beckett's Ethiopia Boy yearns for a lost childhood forged in another country, while Miller's Forward Prize-shortlisted collection explores the contrast between two very different systems of mapping and understanding 'place'. Woods' poems look at the way myth can often degenerate into faith while reason is discarded, and Odd Blocks presents the work of acclaimed American poet Kay Ryan to European readers for the first time. The joy of relationships between women, whatever form they take, is championed in Barnes' witty and satirical Ladies Almanack, and O'Hara beautifully captures the rhythms and cadences of mid-twentieth-century New York life in a selection of his best work. Finally, Ackland's Journey from Winter is a selection of her finest compositions, re-establishing her importance in the pantheon of twentieth-century women's poetry.
The offer begins today and ends Tuesday 26th August at 10am. Happy Bank Holiday Weekend!
