Fifty Fifty
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Fifty Fifty

Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters

  1. 463 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fifty Fifty

Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters

About this book

A Book of the Year 2019 in The Morning Star. This is a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a small, ambitious press over a period of radical transformation in publishing. Each of Carcanet's fifty years is marked by an exchange of letters - handwritten, typed, and now emailed - between an author and the editor. Beginning in 1969 with the response to an invitation to subscribe to Carcanet for two guineas, the book traces Carcanet's progress and offers insight into the nature of literary editing. At its heart is the personal relationship of author and editor/publisher, the conflicts, friendships and vicissitudes that occur at the nexus between the work, its creator, publisher and reader. Poets are central, but fiction writers, translators, biographers and critics also contribute to the Carcanet ferment and firmament. Fifty Fifty celebrates the writers', readers' and editor's risks, passions and pleasures.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Half Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Dedication
  7. Editor’s note by Robyn Marsack
  8. Introduction by Michael Schmidt
  9. 1969 • Anne Ridler
  10. 1970 • Elizabeth Bishop
  11. 1971 • Edwin Morgan
  12. 1972 • Charles Tomlinson
  13. 1973 • Donald Davie
  14. 1974 • Sylvia Townsend Warner
  15. 1975 • C.H. Sisson
  16. 1976 • Thom Gunn
  17. 1977 • W.S. Graham
  18. 1978 • Myfanwy Thomas
  19. 1979 • Octavio Paz
  20. 1980 • Laura Riding
  21. 1981 • Bill Manhire
  22. 1982 • David Arkell
  23. 1983 • Frank Kuppner
  24. Robert Gavron
  25. 1984 • Elizabeth Jennings
  26. 1985 • John Ashbery
  27. 1986 • John Ash
  28. 1987 • Stuart Hood
  29. 1988 • Charles Hobday
  30. 1989 • Sujata Bhatt
  31. 1990 • F.T. Prince
  32. 1991 • Robert Wells
  33. 1992 • Les Murray
  34. 1993 • Seán Rafferty
  35. 1994 • Denise Riley
  36. 1995 • Jorie Graham
  37. 1996 • Christine Brooke-Rose
  38. 1997 • Christopher Logue
  39. 1998 • Anne Stevenson
  40. 1999 • Alison Brackenbury
  41. 2000 • Neil Powell
  42. 2001 • Mimi Khalvati
  43. 2002 • Christopher Middleton
  44. 2003 • Peter Scupham
  45. 2004 • R.F. Langley
  46. 2005 • Patrick Creagh
  47. 2006 • Alastair Fowler
  48. 2007 • Kate Kilalea
  49. 2008 • Arts Council England
  50. 2009 • Tom Raworth
  51. 2010 • Kay Ryan
  52. 2011 • Carola Luther
  53. 2012 • Caroline Bird
  54. 2013 • Kei Miller
  55. 2014 • Vahni Capildeo
  56. 2015 • Sasha Dugdale
  57. 2016 • Eavan Boland
  58. 2017 • James Keery
  59. 2018 • Iain Bamforth
  60. Acknowledgements
  61. Index