Joe Carrick-Varty

Joe Carrick-Varty
Born1993 (age 32–33)
EducationUniversity of Manchester
OccupationsPoet and editor

Joe Carrick-Varty is a British-Irish poet from Oxford, England. His debut collection More Sky (2023) was shortlisted for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize. His pamphlet Somewhere Far (2019) won The Poetry Business's New Poets Prize.

In 2022, Carrick-Varty received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and in 2023 he was named Anthony Burgess Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. His collection Before Violence (2026) was selected as a Poetry Book Society spring recommendation.

Biography

Carrick-Varty was born in 1993. He holds a BA in English Literature/Creative Writing and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. He is a co-founding editor of online poetry magazine bath magg and a book reviewer for P.N. Review.

In 2019, Carrick-Varty founded bath magg, which published work by poets including Bhanu Kapil, Vona Groarke, Kim Addonizio, and Ilya Kaminsky. In August 2023, the magazine entered a hiatus following the death of poet Gboyega Odubanjo at Shambala Festival. Carrick-Varty later wrote an essay remembering Odubanjo for Poetry Foundation, stating: “When a person dies, especially so young, they’re often mythologized … but I don’t want to mythologize Gboyega’s life, because he was my friend; he was so much more than a poet.”

His first book, More Sky, was named one of the best new poetry collections of 2023 by The Irish Times and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. It was later shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize in 2025.

Carrick-Varty's poems have appeared in Granta, the New Statesman, Poetry Review and Poetry Ireland Review.

Works

Books

Pamphlets

Honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ "Joe Carrick-Varty - Carcanet Press". Carcanet.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "More Sky". Carcanet.co.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  4. 1 2 "New Poets Prize winners" (PDF). Poetry Business. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Eric Gregory Awards - The Society of Authors". Society of Authors. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  6. ↑ "CNW Welcomes New Burgess Fellows". The University of Manchester. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  7. 1 2 "Spring 2026 Listings". Poetry Books Society. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "Joe Carrick-Varty wins Eric Gregory poetry prize". The University of Manchester. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  9. ↑ "Joe Carrick-Varty - The Poetry Business". The Poetry Business. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  10. ↑ "About". bath magg. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  11. ↑ "Previous Issues". bath magg. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  12. ↑ Bradbrook, Kate; Holland, Kris (30 April 2024). "Gboyega Odubanjo inquest: Coroner says poet's death was accidental". BBC.
  13. ↑ "Remembering Gboyega Odubanjo (1996-2023)".
  14. ↑ Evans, Martina (9 December 2023). "The best new poetry collections of 2023". The Irish Times.
  15. 1 2 "Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize Competition". The English Association. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  16. ↑ "Joe Carrick-Varty". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 25 January 2026.
  17. ↑ "Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145 Editorial". Poetry Ireland Eigse Eireann. Retrieved 26 January 2026.
  18. ↑ Carrick-Varty, Joe (2026). Before Violence. United Kingdom: Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781800175426. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  19. ↑ Carrick-Varty, Joe (2023). More Sky. United Kingdom: Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781800173019. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  20. ↑ Carrick-Varty, Joe (2020). 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father. United Kingdom: Out-Spoken. ISBN 9781838021139. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  21. ↑ Carrick-Varty, Joe (2019). Somewhere Far. United Kingdom: The Poetry Business. ISBN 9781912196692. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  22. ↑ Forward Book of Poetry 2023 | Faber & Faber
  23. ↑ "News: Poetry Prize 2023 – Robert Hamberger wins first place for his poem 'Funny Girl'". The London Magazine.