20th Century
A01=John Ash
Author_John Ash
British
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forthcoming
Istanbul
Manchester
New York
Poet
Poetry
Symbolism
Product details
- ISBN 9781800175846
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This New Selected Poems of John Ash brings together selections from all of Ash’s published volumes, from Casino (1978) to In the Wake of the Day (2010). It departs from, and builds on, his Selected Poems (1996) to give, for the first time, an overview of Ash’s entire career, as he moved from Manchester to the US and Istanbul, and reveal the extent and variety of his poetic interests, as well as the consistency of his poetic voice. In doing so, it reinforces the idea that Ash may in some ways have fulfilled the title bestowed on him by Poetry magazine, ‘the best English poet of his generation’.
John Ash was born in Manchester in 1948 and read English at the University of Birmingham. He lived for a year in Cyprus, and in Manchester between 1970 and 1985, before moving to New York. Since 1996 he has lived in Istanbul. His poetry has appeared in many publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Village Voice, Oasis, PN Review and Paris Review. Two of his Carcanet collections, The Goodbyes (1982) and Disbelief (1987) were Poetry Book Society Choices. He has also written two books about Turkey, A Byzantine Journey and Turkey: The Other Guide.
James Womack is a poet and translator, based in Cambridge. He is the author of four collections with Carcanet: Misprint (2012); On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017); Homunculus (2020), and Why Are You Shouting? (2024). He translates widely from Spanish and Russian, and has put together anthologies for Carcanet of Vladimir Mayakovsky ('Vladimir Mayakovsky' And Other Poems, 2016) and Manuel Vilas (Heaven, 2020). He is currently working on contemporary Russian and Spanish poets and has recently completed a science fiction novel.
