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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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LiteratureTable of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Editor’s note by Robyn Marsack
- Introduction by Michael Schmidt
- 1969 • Anne Ridler
- 1970 • Elizabeth Bishop
- 1971 • Edwin Morgan
- 1972 • Charles Tomlinson
- 1973 • Donald Davie
- 1974 • Sylvia Townsend Warner
- 1975 • C.H. Sisson
- 1976 • Thom Gunn
- 1977 • W.S. Graham
- 1978 • Myfanwy Thomas
- 1979 • Octavio Paz
- 1980 • Laura Riding
- 1981 • Bill Manhire
- 1982 • David Arkell
- 1983 • Frank Kuppner
- Robert Gavron
- 1984 • Elizabeth Jennings
- 1985 • John Ashbery
- 1986 • John Ash
- 1987 • Stuart Hood
- 1988 • Charles Hobday
- 1989 • Sujata Bhatt
- 1990 • F.T. Prince
- 1991 • Robert Wells
- 1992 • Les Murray
- 1993 • Seán Rafferty
- 1994 • Denise Riley
- 1995 • Jorie Graham
- 1996 • Christine Brooke-Rose
- 1997 • Christopher Logue
- 1998 • Anne Stevenson
- 1999 • Alison Brackenbury
- 2000 • Neil Powell
- 2001 • Mimi Khalvati
- 2002 • Christopher Middleton
- 2003 • Peter Scupham
- 2004 • R.F. Langley
- 2005 • Patrick Creagh
- 2006 • Alastair Fowler
- 2007 • Kate Kilalea
- 2008 • Arts Council England
- 2009 • Tom Raworth
- 2010 • Kay Ryan
- 2011 • Carola Luther
- 2012 • Caroline Bird
- 2013 • Kei Miller
- 2014 • Vahni Capildeo
- 2015 • Sasha Dugdale
- 2016 • Eavan Boland
- 2017 • James Keery
- 2018 • Iain Bamforth
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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