Triple Carcanet Launch

Contact: www.thehorsehospital.com; www.carcanet.co.uk

Carcanet Press invites you to celebrate the publication of three new Carcanet poetry collections:

Deceiving Wild Creatures by Jeremy Over,
Rays by Richard Price and
'We needed coffee but...' by Matthew Welton.

Jeremy Over's first collection, A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese, was published in 2001 and described as ‘a menthol lozenge on the confectionary stall of modern poetry’ (The North). He has read his poetry at venues including the Troubadour Coffee House and Whitechapel Art Gallery, and was the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year in 2002. His second collection, Deceiving Wild Creatures, inhabits a world of delight and amazement, irony and linguistic playfulness.

Scottish poet Richard Price’s first collection, Lucky Day (Carcanet, 2004), was a Book of the Year in the Guardian and the Scotland on Sunday and was shortlisted for several prizes. His second collection, Greenfields, was published in 2007 and shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year Award. Price lives in London, where he is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library. He also collaborates with the musical ensemble Mirabeau. Price's new collection Rays is first and foremost a book of love poems – naïve, hopeful, vulnerable, doubting, and yet ultimately celebratory.

Matthew Welton received the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for The Book of Matthew, which was published in 2003 and was a Guardian Book of the Year. He collaborates regularly with the composer Larry Groves, with whom he was awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship in 2008. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Bolton and his second collection, We Needed Coffee But..., was published in 2009. From its title, which runs to 101 words in full, to its transformations of four-letter words, 'We needed coffee but...' is audacious, mischievous, even outrageous: the rhythms are musical but unexpected; the brightness control on imagery is turned up high.

Entry: Free

Time: 6:30pm