CARCANET - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Sales Manager
- Rights Director
ALAN BRENIK (Sales and Rights Director) studied Creative Writing (BA) at the University of Bolton, during which he volunteered with Manchester Literature Festival and completed a publishing internship. He joined Carcanet in June 2016 as Office Administrator and Accounts Clerk, before moving into the role of Sales Manager in December 2016.
Job Titles:
- Managing Editor
- for Production Enquiries
ANDREW LATIMER (Managing Editor), an editor of PN Review, is an established editor, designer and publisher (founder of Little Island Press, now continuing as an imprint of Carcanet, and of the magazine Egress). He is also a poet contributor to New Poetries VII.
BECKY SCOTT (Marketing) studied English Literature and Politics at Lancaster University and graduated in 2019. Whilst at University, she undertook a three month placement at Carcanet in the Sales and Marketing department. She has worked at Carcanet part time ever since. She was Associate Editor of Lancaster's student newspaper, SCAN. She is currently undertaking a TEFL qualification.
David Wheatley was born in Dublin in 1970. He is the author of five previous collections of poetry, including The President of Planet Earth (Carcanet, 2017) and various other books including a novel, Stretto (CB Editions, 2022); he has also coedited with Ailbhe Darcy The Cambridge History of Irish Women's Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2021). He lives in rural Aberdeenshire with his family.
HOLLY REYNOLDS (Accounts) joined Carcanet in 2018. She is working part time and studying AAT Level 3 with Kaplan Learning. She enjoys reading, and has contributed a short story to the Liberated Muse anthology. She has worked as a Purchase Ledger Clerk and Accounts Assistant in previous jobs.
Job Titles:
- Marketing Manager
- for Marketing and Publicity Enquiries
- Marketing and Events Manager
JAZMINE LINKLATER (Marketing and Events Manager) joined Carcanet in March 2018. She also works for T-Junction International Poetry Festival and sits on the editorial board of Broken Sleep Books, and is currently studying part-time on the MA Modern and Contemporary Literature programme at the University of Manchester. She has published the poetry pamphlets Toward Passion According (Zarf, 2017) and Découper, Coller (Dock Road, 2018), and regularly reviews for Poetry Wales, Corridor8 and Compass, among other journals. She is a co-founder of the queer feminist reading series, No Matter, and in 2018-19 was a Poetry London mentee with Vahni Capildeo. A third pamphlet, Figure a Motion, is forthcoming from Guillemot Press in September 2020. @jjhlinklater @oh_no_matter
John Birtwhistle was born in Scunthorpe in 1946. His poetry has been recognized by an Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Council bursary, Arts Council creative writing Fellowships, a Fellowship at the University of Southampton and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has had three concert libretti set and performed: David Blake's The Plumber's Gift was staged by English National Opera and broadcast on Radio 3. For twelve years, he was a Lecturer in English at the University of York, teaching mainly seventeenth century and Romantic poetry. For five years, he was a literary contributor and eventually an Associate Editor of the British Medical Journal's specialist quarterly BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Birtwhistle is married to a Consultant Anaesthetist and since 1992 he has lived in Sheffield with his family.
John F. Deane was born on Achill Island, Co Mayo, Ireland. He is the founder of Poetry Ireland, the National Poetry Society, and The Poetry Ireland Review. He is founder of the Dedalus Press, of which he was editor from 1985 until 2006. In 2006 he was visiting scholar in the Burns Library of Boston College, and in 2016 was Teilhard de Chardin Fellow in Christian Studies, Loyola University, Chicago and taught a course in poetry. In 2019 he was visiting poet in Notre Dame University, Indiana. His poems have been translated into many languages and in 2022 the Polish Publisher, Znak, published his Selected Poems in Polish translation. Deane is the recipient of many awards for his poetry, he is a member of Aosdána, the body established by the Arts Council to honour artists 'whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland'. In 2007 he was made Chevalier en l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French Government. The fine arts press, Guillemot, Cornwall, in 2019 published a limited edition book, Like the Dewfall and in 2022 a further booklet, Voix Celeste, both with artwork by Tony Martin. In late 2022, Irish Pages Press published Darkness Between Stars, a selection of poems focusing on questions of faith and poetry by both John F. Deane and James Harpur, including an email dialogue on their individual writing processes. His latest collection from Carcanet is Naming of the Bones in 2021 and the forthcoming Selected and New Poems in November 2023.
'The power of Toccata and Fugue lies in its beautiful rendering of unbeautiful things. Deane takes as his subjects what might ordinarily make one turn away: road kill, snared vermin, kittens in a sack weighed with stones for drowning, a seal washed ashore to die, lambs taken for slaughter, worms hooked for fishing and snails tortured by a child. Yet there is nothing pathological about it. Compassion not cruelty motivates the speakers in his poems whose unwavering gaze attests to their engagement with these subjects.'
John F. Deane's own website can be found at www.johnfdeane.ie
Job Titles:
- Associate Publisher and Editor
JOHN MCAULIFFE (Associate Publisher and Editor) grew up in Listowel, County Kerry, and has lived in the UK since 2002. He has published five collections with The Gallery Press, most recently The Kabul Olympics, which was published in April 2020. His Selected Poems will be published in October by Gallery and by Wake Forest University Press in the US in 2022. John now lives in Manchester, where he is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing and edits The Manchester Review. He wrote the regular poetry column in The Irish Times from 2013-2020 and, since 2020, has worked as Associate Publisher and editor at Carcanet Press.
Job Titles:
- Outsourced Finance Manager
, the founder of eSave Accountancy(2009), joined Carcanet in June 2019. Manda is a finance professional with extensive Accountancy Practice (including Ernst & Young and KPMG) and blue-chip FMCG industry experience. She has strong technical skills and a demonstrable track record of resolving complex audit and accounting issues. She also works for a number of other companies, helping with their finance departments.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Original Editorial Committee
Job Titles:
- General Editor, PN Review, Publisher and Managing Director