Carcanet nets timely poetry collection from Pople  

Carcanet has secured Spillway: New and Selected Poems from Ian Pople.  

Michael Schmidt, managing director, acquired world rights directly from the author. Spillway will be published on 30th June in the UK with US and Canadian publication following on 25th August.  

Pople’s first Carcanet edition explores identity and relationships across borders and the changes brought about by illness and estrangement. Pople’s recent writing respond to figures from jazz history such as Roland Kirk, Dupree Bolton and Pat Metheny. “The travel poems explore the range of reactions, appropriations and misappropriations as physical and psychological boundaries are crossed”, Carcanet wrote.  

The publisher continued: “It is wonderful to encounter such an accomplished and varied body of work which shares with us its vivid spaces and tones. Pople, one of the most lucid critics of modern and contemporary—especially American—poetry, is an original artist in his own right.” 

“Ian Pople writes poems of such intense observation they amount to a kind of grace,” said Douglas Crase, author of The Revisionist (Little, Brown).