Carcanet Press

British publisher Carcanet PressFounded1969; 57 years ago (1969)Country of originUnited KingdomHeadquarters locationManchester, EnglandDistributionNBN International (UK)Independent Publishers Group (US)Sula Books (South Africa)Key peopleMichael SchmidtPublication typesBooksOfficial websitewww.carcanet.co.uk Carcanet Press is a publisher, primarily of poetry, based in the United Kingdom. Originally a student magazine devised by undergraduates collaborating between Oxford and Cambridge, it was refounded in 1969 by Michael Schmidt. In 2000 it was named the Sunday Times millennium Small Publisher of the Year. History Carcanet was originally a literary magazine; it was founded in 1962 by students from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Michael Hind, a member of the original editorial board, recalls how the idea was to "collect together and publish as a periodical poetry, short fiction, and 'intelligent criticism of all the arts'; there were to be both student and senior members' contributions." The intention was to link Oxford and Cambridge universities. Its name is an English word which means "a collar of jewels", diminutive of "carcan" (an obsolete word for a collar used for pu