I have been awarded a major AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Leadership Fellowship to work on the poetry publisher Carcanet Press. ***See the project blog HERE for news and updates*** A central objective of the project is to make Carcanet's archive more accessible - focusing particularly on the born-digital part of the collection. Here is a short description: Survival of the Weakest: Preserving and Analysing Born-Digital Records to Understand How Small Poetry Publishers Survive in the Global Marketplace Despite its importance in the literary landscape, Carcanet Press has attracted little scholarly attention - in part because the largest part of its archive is closed to researchers. This archive, which comprises born-digital as well as analogue records, is held at the John Rylands Library (Manchester). The project will preserve and make accessible internationally-significant archival materials held in the uncatalogued part of the paper collecti...