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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you to all who attended our poetry showcase at Seesaw Space on Tuesday evening!❣️ Special thanks to our poets Matthew Welton, SuAndi, Martina Evans and Joe Carrick-Varty, and John McAuliffe for hosting. Want to attend the next one? Follow the link upcoming events: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 21h

A poem from my new @carcanet.bsky.social collection Red River Valley

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy National Poetry Day! 📚 We're offering 25% off EVERYTHING, all week! Head to our website checkout and use the code POETRYWEEK: www.carcanet.co.uk/search-resul...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Introducing Red River Valley by Ian McMillan! The new collection from one of Britain’s most treasured living poets. A Poetry Book Society Recommendation, coming 29th October 2026: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017586...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This week, read an article by Ian McMillan, introducing his new collection Red River Valley: carcanet.substack.com/p/red-river-...

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Red River Valley: Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan introduces his new collection

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mystery book bundles are still available for our poetry showcase tomorrow night! 🎁 Tuesday 29th September, 6:30pm, Seesaw Space, M1 6NG. Tickets available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Get 15% off My Destination by Daisy Fried with the code SEPBOOKS15. Click here to get your own copy: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017578...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our online book launch of 'My Father the Dog' by Andrew Fitzsimons. Follow this link to watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kid...

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Andrew Fitzsimons: My Father the Dog Book Launch

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Get 15% off The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by Alberto Manguel with the code SEPBOOKS15. A new exploration of the art of translation in essays. Enter the code at checkout when you order here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017580...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our poetry showcase night posters have been spotted around Manchester! To get your own ticket, click here: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Carcanet Online Launch of The Matter by Padraig Regan, hosted by Richard Scott. Tickets for the events can be found here: tinyurl.com/5phwkzjr

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

PN Review 291 is here!⭐ Order a copy or subscribe:🔗 www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My new poetry collection from @carcanet.bsky.social ! In all good bookshops!

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to Theophilus Kwek, who has been longlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize 2026 with his book Commonwealth! 🎉 #sglitprize Get your own copy of Commonwealth here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017483.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This week, read an excerpt from Alberto Manguel’s upcoming book-length essay, The Reverse Side of the Tapestry: carcanet.substack.com/p/the-revers...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Meet our Carcanet poets, who will be reading at our poetry showcase on Tuesday 29th September, 6:30pm. Follow this link to buy tickets and learn more: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

PNR 291 is live now. www.pnreview.co.uk/current-issu

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congratulations to John F. Deane, Lorna Goodison, Evan, Thomas McCarthy and Stav Poleg for being shortlisted for the #DerekWalcottPrize 2026 for Poetry in partnership with @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social Get 25% off shortlisted titles with the code DEREKWALCOTT25: tinyurl.com/3ekr4fw5

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our September titles are looking good on the shelves! ❤️ From left to right: The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by #AlbertoManguel The Matter by #PadraigRegan My Destination by #DaisyFried Get 15% off with code SEPBOOKS15 at the link in bio 🔗

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We're hosting a party in Manchester 🥳 On 29th September, our regular Tuesday evening event moves in-person in the heart of the city! Meet 4 of our 2025-26 poets at Seesaw Space - with readings, a panel and surprise book tickets available. Tickets £5-12: www.tickettailor.com/events/carca...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy publication day to our August collections! 1. THE DEAD ONE by @jaygao13 2. MY FATHER THE DOG by @ayfitzs Get 15% off both books until 31st August 😍 Code: AUGBOOKS15 🔗 🛒 www.carcanet.co.uk/new-titles-o...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Anthony V. Capildeo launches their debut nonfiction ‘Masqueraders’ online next week 🎟️ 1st September, 7pm, hosted by David Wheatley: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... The book brings together a selection of brilliant essays, letters and columns from leading poetry journal @pnreview.bsky.social

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'She had seated herself suddenly upon a place of detachment between earth and air....She had made herself, as it were, light'... Alice Meynell watches 'A Woman in Grey' cycle in the hubbub of Oxford St. Alice Meynell, 'Selected Poems & Essays' ed Alex Wong, intro Laura Mulvey @carcanet.bsky.social

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

⏰Event alert ⏰ Jay Gao and Padraig Regan at @ Blackwell's MCR - hosted by our friend @andrewpoetry 🎤 Monday 14th September, 6.30pm The perfect match 🌳🍃 tickets: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/3034-

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Join us tonight! 👇 At 7pm GMT, Andrew Fitzsimons will launch his new poetry collection 'My Father the Dog' on Carcanet Zoom, hosted by Nick Laird. 🎟 Tickets are £2 and get you £2 off the book when you order from our website. Get your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

@jaygao.bsky.social and Padraig Regan launching new poetry collections, in conversation with Andrew McMillan. @carcanet.bsky.social @newwritingmcr.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spend an hour with Ange Mlinko, Michael Caines, and me as we discuss the work of Henri Coulette (1927-1988), whose NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, which Michael and I co-edited, is now available from @carcanet.bsky.social: youtu.be/WodlOh5NjMY

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New poetry events online ✨ Come and watch our book launches on Zoom this August-September! 18 August - Andrew Fitzsimons 1 September - Anthony V. Capildeo 15 September - Jane Duran All Zoom events cost £2 to attend, with a £2 discount off the book given 🎟️ Book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Congratulations to Sarah Leavesley, whose poem 'Distillation, in snatches' was chosen as the winner of our #WeltonWalk Competition!🎉 You can read Sarah's winning poem over on our Substack (linked in bio). Well done Sarah!⭐

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Say hello to our August titles!🦚 Get 15% off with code AUGBOOKS15 until the end of the month. 🌀Jay Gao - The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017532... 🐶My Father The Dog - Andrew Fitzsimons: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017574...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy Publication Day to PN Review 290! Read Michael Schmidt's Editorial:⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Happy publication day to 101 Letters by Christopher Middleton, edited by John Clegg!🌄 Get 15% off when you use the code JULYBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017567... 📖: This selection of Middleton’s letters offers a new beginning point for readers of this dazzling, many-talented writer.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This week, read an excerpt from the prologue of Anthony V. Capildeo's new selection of essays, Masqueraders: open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This month we're publishing Masqueraders by Anthony V. Capildeo!🔮 Get 15% offwhen you use the code JULYBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017569... 📖: In Masqueraders, poet Capildeo's non-fiction début treats us to a selection from over a dozen years of scintillating essays, letters and columns.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This month we're publishing Pier 52 by Jane Duran!🌊 Get 15% off your copy when you use the code JULYBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017592... 📖: Jane Duran’s Pier 52 makes new spaces for its readers to think, whether revisiting 1970s Manhattan or noticing the closed spaces of Palestine now.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Congratulations to Bei Dao and Jeffrey Yang, who has been shortlisted for the 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize For Poetry in Translation 2026 with their collection Sidetracks!⭐ Well done to Bei, Jeffrey, and all the other shortlistees!🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017427...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This summer be sure to read HEIRLOOM by Catherine-Esther Cowie, a finalist for the 2026 #FirecrackerAward in Poetry! #SummerReading @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017479...

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HEIRLOOM

Catherine-Esther Cowie

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Join us for the online launch of 'Killing Spree' with @jorie.graham! ✨ Tuesday 4th August, 7pm, on Zoom - hosted by Joey Connolly. Tickets are £2 and come with a £2 discount off the book. Get your ticket here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This week, celebrate Elizabeth Jennings' centenary with a Substack from our archive: open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

25% off upcoming books with Waterstones ‼️ From now until 23:09 on Friday 24th July, pre-order these Autumn titles with 25% OFF. Includes: The Matter by Padraig Regan Red River Valley by Ian McMillan The Dead One... by Jay Gao My Father the Dog by Andrew Fitzsimons Find the links in bio! 🛒 🔗

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/07/2026

Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring. Soaring metal is flight and nest together… —Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space” A #poem for astronauts – from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #OTD, 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon #MoonLandingDay 🚀🧑‍🚀

A Home in Space
Edwin Morgan

Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring.
Soaring metal is flight and nest together.
Together they must hatch.
Hatches let the welders out.
Out went the whitesuit riggers with frames as light as air.
Air was millions under lock and key.
Key-ins had computers wild on Saturday nights.
Nights, days, months, years they lived in space.
Space shone black in their eyes.
Eyes, hands, food-tubes, screens, lenses, keys were one.
One night – or day – or month – or year – they all –
all gathered at the panel and agreed –
agreed to cut communication with –
with the earth base – and it must be said they were –
were cool and clear as they dismantled the station and –
and gave their capsule such power that –
that they launched themselves outwards –
outwards in an impeccable trajectory, that band –
that band of tranquil defiers, not to plant any –
any home with roots but to keep a –
a voyaging generation voyaging, and as far –
as far as there would ever be a home in space –
space that needs time and time that needs life.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/07/2026

When the badness came he was playing chess again… —Iain Crichton Smith, “The Chess Player” from NEW COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2011 #poem #poetry #chess #WorldChessDay www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754960...

The Chess Player
by Iain Crichton Smith

When the badness came he was playing chess again.
‘Someone most dear to you,’ they said, ‘has died.’
He scouted round the board and picked the queen.
(What use are bishops, knights?) ‘We found,’ they cried,
‘your brother dead. His wounds were in the side.’

‘Not in the head?’ he said, not looking up.
‘In the head and heart as well,’ they answered. He
moved the tall queen delicately as in hope
but the king escaped again. ‘Did he say of me
anything hopeful?’ he asked savagely,

moving a pawn, his head carved to the wood
the king was carved from. ‘No,’ they said. ‘“Please tell
my brother this. Tell him I’ve understood
a very little.” That’s what he told us.’ ‘Well,
the chessboard tells me what of heaven or hell

I need to know and that’s too much,’ he cried,
shifting the queen. (The king escaped again.)
He smiled a little with the jaunty pride
one sometimes notices in desperate men.
‘You see,’ he said, ‘when you came in just then

I had a vision of that very board.
They do not know, you see, none of them knows.
They’re all quite evidently so far apart.
What do they know of each other? I dispose –
but each is wooden, in archaic pose.’

And then they saw (each one standing beside
the terrible trivial wrestler) with a start
that someone most dear to him indeed had died,
and stared at him grappling with his mental art,
and carefully made ready to depart.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/07/2026

Happy #WorldSnakeDay – 16 July – to all who celebrate. Here’s Edwin Morgan’s “Siesta of a Hungarian Snake”, published in COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1990 🐍 #poem #poetry #snakes www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754188...

Edwin Morgan
Siesta of a Hungarian Snake

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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Today's Feature: "Nostalgia" by Christine Roseeta Walker from Coco Island published by @carcanet.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/nostalg...

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Nostalgia

I’m being given back to you, to the land of my birth, to the childhood of my past

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

‘Pitysad’ is from ‘Deformations’ a book about The Odyssey, PTSD, war and abuse @carcanet.bsky.social (it’s featured in Henry Power’s excellent Homer Haunted) @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social

Poem title ‘Pitysad’
I entered a city at night, Penelope
I couldn’t tell whether it was half-built or half-destroyed
I ordered you killed, Penelope
as I felt your hips in my hands
your head under mine
as I stroked your hair
and wondered if you were still alive
I moved through the streets and they were silent
but I kicked down doors
I crouched in stairwells
and I saw you emerge
from blasted places
holding up my old coat
and looking for me
It was a cloudless night
and the stars were tiny holes
in the sky’s blackout
beyond that dark fabric
there’s a lit room
brightly lit
and although I can’t dance, Penelope
we were dancing
I burst into a room
a few women huddled
clutching pomegranates
I thought they were bombs, Penelope
I swear
I thought they were
bombs

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Join Jay Gao on his upcoming tour🌀 Tickets are already on sale for all 3 Edinburgh events - grab yours now: www.carcanet.co.uk/events/

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Bailey Allen Hall, University of Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland, H91 TK33

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you @carcanet.bsky.social, contributors, organisers, and readers, for a brilliant evening ‘100 Years of Elizabeth Jennings: A Carcanet Celebration’. Such a terrific outpouring of poems. Particularly taken by ‘Almost’, one of Rebecca Watts’ selections. #ElizabethJennings #poetry

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 14/07/2026

Cinquevalli in sepia looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas. Half faun, half military man… —Edwin Morgan, “Cinquevalli” from COLLECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 1990 Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918) died #OTD, 14 July #poem #poetry #C19 #circus www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754188...

Paul Cinquevalli, by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd. Bromide postcard print, circa 1912. National Portrait Gallery.

A sepia photograph of Paul Cinquevalli (1859–1918). He has short, curly hair and a thick moustache, and is wearing an elaborate acrobat's leotard covered in tassels, braid, and frogging. He has a thick neck and stands half-facing us, his head turned to look directly at the camera. His left arm is cocked on his hip; his left elbow rests against a cannonball which sits on top of a stone plinth beside him.

Cinquevalli
Edwin Morgan

Cinquevalli is falling, falling.
The shining trapeze kicks and flirts free,
solo performer at last.
The sawdust puffs up with a thump,
settles on a tangle of broken limbs.
St Petersburg screams and leans.
His pulse flickers with the gas-jets. He lives.

Cinquevalli has a therapy.
In his hospital bed, in his hospital chair
he holds a ball, lightly, lets it roll round his hand,
or grips it tight, gauging its weight and resistance,
begins to balance it, to feel its life attached to his
by will and knowledge, invisible strings
that only he can see. He throws it
from hand to hand, always different,
always the same, always
different, always the
same.
His muscles learn to think, his arms grow very strong.

Cinquevalli in sepia
looks at me from an old postcard: bundle of enigmas.
Half faun, half military man; almond eyes, curly hair,
conventional moustache; tights, and a tunic loaded
with embroideries, tassels, chains, fringes; hand on hip
with a large signet-ring winking at the camera
but a bull neck and shoulders and a cannon-ball
at his elbow as he stands by the posing pedestal;
half reluctant, half truculent,
half handsome, half absurd,
but let me see you forget him: not to be done.

Cinquevalli is a juggler.
In a thousand theatres, in every continent,
he is the best, the greatest. After eight years perfecting
he can balance one billiard ball on another billiard ball
on top of a cue on top of a third billiard ball
in a wine glass held in his mouth. To those
who say the balls are waxed, or flattened,
he patiently explains the trick will only work
because the spheres are absolutely true.
There is no deception in him. He is true.

Cinquevalli is juggling with a bowler,
a walking-stick, a cigar, a coin.
Who foresees? How to please.
The last time round, the bowler
flies to his head, the stick sticks in his hand,
the cigar jumps into his mouth, the coin
lands on his foot—ah, but
is kicked into his eye
and held there as the miraculous monocle
without which the portrait would be incomplete.

Cinquevalli is practising.
He sits in his dressing-room talking to some friends,
at the same time writing a letter with one hand
and with the other juggling four balls.
His friends think of demons, but
‘You could do all this,’ he says,
sealing the letter with a billiard ball.

Cinquevalli is on the high wire in Odessa.
The roof cracks, he is falling, falling
into the audience, a woman breaks his fall,
he cracks her like a flea, but lives.

Cinquevalli broods in his armchair in Brixton Road.
He reads in the paper about the shells whining
at Passchendaele, imagines the mud and the dead.
He goes to the window and wonders through that dark evening
what is happening in Poland where he was born.
His neighbours call him a German spy.
‘Kestner, Paul Kestner, that’s his name!’
‘Keep Kestner out of the British music-hall!’
He frowns; it is cold; his fingers seem stiff and old.

Cinquevalli tosses a plate of soup
and twirls it on his forefinger; not a drop spills.
He laughs, and well may he laugh
who can do that. The astonished table
breathe again, laugh too, think the world
a spinning thing that spills, for a moment, no drop.

Cinquevalli’s coffin sways through Brixton
only a few months before the Armistice.
Like some trick they cannot get off the ground
it seems to burden the shuffling bearers, all their arms
cross-juggle that displaced person, that man
of balance, of strength, of delights and marvels,
in his unsteady box at last into the earth.

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This week's Substack is by Jane Duran, as she introduces her forthcoming collection Pier 52:⬇️ carcanet.substack.com/p/pier-52-ja...

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