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Songs of Experience

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  • ISBN 9781800175884
  • Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Nov 2026
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Songs of Experience harvests work by a new generation of poets: has there ever before been so original and inexhaustibly varied a cohort of poets writing and publishing in their seventies, eighties and nineties?

Here some of our best-loved poets are shown in a new light, presented side by side in all their diversity. Some have published with Carcanet since the 1970s, others are later arrivals or late starters on the list. All of them still write and publish new work. Songs of Experience is a celebration, providing readers with a first opportunity to engage with an unprecedented generation.

Several of the defining poets of the past half century are to be found here - Gillian Clarke, Rowan Williams, Mimi Khalvati, Lorna Goodison, Daniel Huws among them - and some whose work will in due course change how our age is read. The writers include prose reflections on late style, fresh starts, life stories, and a changing take on their calling in an age so different from the one that shaped them.
About
Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet, scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied at Harvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among his many publications are several collections of poems and a novel, The Colonist (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is general editor of PN Review and founder as well as managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.

John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002) which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing.