Carcanet lands climate crisis poem collection by Graham 

Michael Schmidt, m.d. at Carcanet, has landed To 2040, a new poem collection from Jorie Graham, winner of the Forward Prize 2012 and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1996.

Carcanet will publish the UK edition, holding rights for the UK and Commonwealth, excluding Canada. It will publish 27th April.

The collection explores the global climate crisis through the lens of an apocalyptic world, narrated by a speaker reflecting on her mortality. Carcanet described it as “an urgent open letter to the future, with a habit of looking back, where the year 2040 is both the future and event-horizon”. The title poem has been published in the LRB with an audio recording. 

Writer Robert Macfarlane said: “Graham’s poetry is strongly emergent, its effects irreducible to the sum or difference of its components. It shoals, schools, flocks, builds, folds. It has life.”

Graham is the author of 15 collections of poems. Her poetry has been widely translated and has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the International Nonino Prize, and the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.