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Nina Živančević is a Serbian-born poet, playwright, fiction writer, translator, scholar, performer, curator and art critic. She apprenticed as a young poet with Allen Ginsberg and has gone on to work in various capacities as both a writer and scholar of experimental, underground and avant-garde literature. Nina is renowned author who was the subject of a retrospective of forty years of literary work in the Serbian Cultural Institute in Paris, where she lives. New York City Jail & Other Stories is a compilation of her fictional writing over the years. It is a remarkable book focused on unconventional female characters. She depicts women who are capable of ending in extreme places, sharing a cell with jail hardcore inmates, in an underground fetish party or in some exquisite inner hell accompanied by literary demons, but retain their intelligence, their conscience, their generosity, their capacity to laugh, their eroticism and their ability to love, even if it brings suffering. Nina’s characters are strong, authentic people and she is eventually in the middle of her own stories too, as herself. Nina is an authentic, libertarian feminist. Published in September 2023 ISBN 978-1-9164212-8-8

An exciting collaboration between Carnaval Press and Instagram project sunseekers, involving almost 50 poets from UK and abroad and some visual artists writing on the theme of disease. COLLABORATORS Ágnes Lehóczky | Alice Merry | Ana Seferovic | Andrea Christofidou| Anna Ruback | Astra Papachristodoulou | bonnie hancell | Brit Parks | Charles A. Perrone | Charlotte Lunn | Chris Kerr | Chris Blewitt | Chris Gutkind | Claire Cox | Dani Salvadori |Davi de Lacerda |Domenico Salas| Dubravka Đurić | Eduardo Jorge | Ellen Jenkins | Fernando Naporano | Fran Lock | Francis H. Powell | Golnoosh Nour | Hannah Copley | Ilias Tsagas | Ivana Maksić | Johny Brown | Julia Rose Lewis & Nathan Hyland Walker | Kate Simpson | Kirsty Allison | K. P. Kavafis | Manoella Valadares | Matt Bates | Matthew Haigh | Max Henninger | Michael Horovitz | Natalie Stypa | Nina Zivancevic | Oliver Zarandi | Peter J. King | Renan Iha | Rushika Wick | Sascha A. Akhtar | SJ Fowler | Slana Detox | Sitron Panopoulos | |Stuart McKenzie | Svetlana Rakočević | Sylee Gore | Tamara Šuškić | Tom Rosas | Tracey Pearson | Vanessa Vie | Virna Teixeira Published in November 2022 Artwork (cover) by visual artist Anna Ruback ISBN 9781916421271

This was the debut as of a poet of renowned Argentinian artist Julieta Hanono. Her writing is an extension of her work as an artist, where she explores difficulties memories of military dictatorship in Argentine, including her imprisonment. Julieta has been living in Paris for decades, she writes in short excerpts in Spanish and French which were translated to English and Portuguese. Published in 2018 ISBN: 9781916421202

Brazilian poet and sociologist Lígia Dabul plays with words, musicality, and sensory perceptions in an unique style. This collection was a result of Ligia’s artistic residences in Monsanto, Portugal and Manchester. The cover was illustrated by Lua Celina. Now in its third edition. Published in 2017 ISBN: 9780993364464

This hybrid work is a kind of prose-poetry documentary where Virna Teixeira fictionalises her medical experiences and gives voices to patients, while working in psychiatric wards in London. Translated by the author.

Virna Teixeira’s prose poetry explores paradise lost, nomadism and disenchantment, searching for a land that doesn’t exist. Bilingual ediiton, translated by the author and Edward Leek. Illustrated by Portuguese visual artist João Concha. First edition was published in Lisbon in 2014 by Não Edições (out of print) Publiahed in the uK in 2016 56 pages ISBN: 9780993364426

Fernando Naporano is a poet, musician and journalist from São Paulo known in the underground circuit in Brazil and abroad. He is leader of the band Maria Angélica Nnao Mora Mais Aqui. Sem Mais Ninguém a Dizer Adeus is his ninth books of poems. With a unique style, the glam rocker Fernando dialogues with music in a avant-garde and intensely romantic book. Portuguese only. With amazing illustrations by Brazilian artist (based in UK) Rey-Zorro. Published in 2019 ISBN: 9781916421240

A translation of Ghérasim Luca’s Levée D’Ecrou to Portuguese. Although Carnaval Press does not publish translations to Portuguese, an exception was made to this beautiful work, never translated before to a foreign language. Published in bilingual version. Translated by Brazilian poet Laura Erber. 56 pages Published in 2016 ISBN: 9780993364433