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Fifty Fifty

Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters

Robyn Marsack editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd

Published:12th Dec '19

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Fifty Fifty cover

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.

'A great publishing house!' - Harold Pinter; 'Carcanet's role in our literary culture is both vital and vibrant. The press's seriousness of purpose, eclecticism and internationalism deserve the highest praise and in the world of poetry its status and import are unchallengeable - impossible to imagine literary life in Britain without it.' - William Boyd

ISBN: 9781784108786

Dimensions: 216mm x 135mm x 35mm

Weight: unknown

464 pages