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Arc Publications, Todmorden (2026)

18/07/2026

Mary Gilliland reads 'Rosslyn Chapels Artisans' from her collection 'Within The Shop of The Divine'

05/07/2026

Prue Chamberlayne reads 'Droplets On A Jolted Glass' from the collection 'Lizzard Looks'.

21/05/2026

📢 An important update from Arc 📢
As we enter a new financial year, we have been reviewing the past 12 months, the press’s highs and lows, and where we find ourselves financially. As mentioned in previous newsletters, Arc has not received any public funding for over 5 years, and has been totally reliant on income from book sales to finance its forward programme and staff costs. During these years, sales have fallen, and the year 2025-6 has seen our lowest income from sales to date. Unsolicited donations from a handful of private individuals have, of course, helped enormously, as have some outstanding new titles, but there is no escaping the fact that we are entering the new year in a financially precarious position.

What can be done? Here are some of our conclusions

■ We will have to increase the price of our books / chapbooks -- the prices of all publications will go up by £1. We won’t do this until 1 July, so you have time to think about what you’d like to purchase before prices increase.

■ We cannot afford to continue offering free postage within the UK. From 1 July, we will have to add postage and packing to all UK invoices as follows: on all chapbooks £2 p&p and on all other books £3 p&p. We will also have to raise postage costs to the rest of the world, particularly to the USA (which now charges a tax on top of postal charges). We will notify you of increases to overseas postage costs shortly.

■ We urge all Arc authors to arrange readings wherever possible, and to purchase copies of their books direct from Arc. The more copies purchased, the more generous the discount we’re able to give. And do remember, authors can buy copies of any Arc book (not just their own) at authors’ discount.

■ We ask all recipients of this newsletter to look through the Arc website and to order at least one book. Remember, if you do this before 1 July, you will NOT be charged for UK postage, nor will you pay more for overseas postage.

■ We are happy to negotiate discounts with
- reading groups which choose an Arc book;
- students studying an Arc book as part of their course;
- festivals featuring an Arc author.

Thank you for your support 🙏🏼 Arc.

21/05/2026

📢 An important update from Arc 📢
As we enter a new financial year, we have been reviewing the past 12 months, the press’s highs and lows, and where we find ourselves financially. As mentioned in previous newsletters, Arc has not received any public funding for over 5 years, and has been totally reliant on income from book sales to finance its forward programme and staff costs. During these years, sales have fallen, and the year 2025-6 has seen our lowest income from sales to date. Unsolicited donations from a handful of private individuals have, of course, helped enormously, as have some outstanding new titles, but there is no escaping the fact that we are entering the new year in a financially precarious position.

What can be done? Here are some of our conclusions

■ We will have to increase the price of our books / chapbooks -- the prices of all publications will go up by £1. We won’t do this until 1 July, so you have time to think about what you’d like to purchase before prices increase.

■ We cannot afford to continue offering free postage within the UK. From 1 July, we will have to add postage and packing to all UK invoices as follows: on all chapbooks £2 p&p and on all other books £3 p&p. We will also have to raise postage costs to the rest of the world, particularly to the USA (which now charges a tax on top of postal charges). We will notify you of increases to overseas postage costs shortly.

■ We urge all Arc authors to arrange readings wherever possible, and to purchase copies of their books direct from Arc. The more copies purchased, the more generous the discount we’re able to give. And do remember, authors can buy copies of any Arc book (not just their own) at authors’ discount.

■ We ask all recipients of this newsletter to look through the Arc website and to order at least one book. Remember, if you do this before 1 July, you will NOT be charged for UK postage, nor will you pay more for overseas postage.

■ We are happy to negotiate discounts with
- reading groups which choose an Arc book;
- students studying an Arc book as part of their course;
- festivals featuring an Arc author.

If our financial situation stablizes,

26/02/2026

***** Stephen Boyce • Prue Chamberlayne • John Challis • Lynda V. E. Crawford • Neil Elder • Dominic Fisher • George Freek • Rona Fitzgerald • Greg Freeman • Bernadette Gallagher • Maria Isakova-Be…

05/02/2026

Within the Shop of the Divine
by Mary Gilliland
Mary Gilliland, the American poet, essayist, ecologist and activist, is well-known and highly regarded in the USA, and this new poetry collection is her UK first.

"It is impossible not to fall for Within the Shop of the Divine. These are poems abundant in flora and fauna, rich in life and matter and earthed in the spaces and histories they emerge from.

Mary Gilliland’s gift with language, and her open attention to the world affects a kind of communion – between self and space, human and more than human, and between loved ones – that moves as much as it delights.

A pamphlet of grief, recovery and quiet joy from a poet who deserves to be better known in the UK."

- Hannah Copley

"Mary Gilliland brings to her work the rich flavors of the natural world, yet her destination is clearly news of the inner self, its perceptions, its relationships with others. She is not afraid of delight, neither does she shirk the hard tasks of anger, pain, and deep caring."

- Mary Oliver

"Mary Gilliland’s tensile lyric and fluent narrative grasp the sweet otherness in life… a radiant testimony – and a triumph – of an unerring ear I deeply cherish. Mythical and grounded, her sensuously rich language enacts a poetry in which self-concentration brims beyond the far reach of desire, passion, and the self."

- Ishion Hutchinson

"By turns mystical and realist, Mary Gilliland’s intensely musical poems consider global apocalypse but also celebrate the generative power of creativity. Her vision is profound, enduring."

- Alice Fulton
ISBN: 9781911469896
Published October 2025

26/01/2026

🕯️ Holocaust Memorial Day 🕯️

Tuesday 27th January 10.30 am - 12.00 pm

Join us where Jean Boase-Beier and Angela Jarman will be reading poems from the Holocaust and poems of hope. This is a FREE event and there will be refreshments available. We hope to see you all there 🙏🏻📚🎙️

04/12/2025

Collected Poems 1972 - 2024
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Prize-winning poet Kevin Crossley-Holland has been described by Philip Pullman as ‘a master, a magician and commander of the language’, a view that this eagerly-awaited Collected Poems will undoubtedly support.

"Kevin Crossley-Holland is a master, a magician and commander of the language, the roots of whose work are deeply entwined with ancient patt erns of truth and knowledge. I salute and venerate him."

- PHILIP PULLMAN

"Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Collected Poems is a serious achievement. Underpinning its variety of voices and perspectives is a consistent vision that finds expression in poems at once temporally palimpsestic and geographically grounded, crossing and re-crossing the fine line between the every day and myth. Like the ‘blue hour’ by which they are haunted, they are often elegiac, but always intensely present."

- JANE GRIFFITHS

"He is a poet listening to his own history through the clamour of seabirds and gales and well-caught scraps of this and that which blow across the land. His language has been honed by the Norfolk and Suffolk climate itself and has the polish of split flint."

- RONALD BLYTHE

"With a deep understanding of archaeology, a painterly eye for beauty, and a naturalist’s commitment to sharp observation, Kevin Crossley-Holland has spent a lifetime mining the resources of elegy, myth, lyric, prayer, and dramatic monologue to form delicately crafted meditations on love and loss, time and memory, spiritual longing and emotional growth."

- LUCY NEWLYN

"This is a fantastic collection, and I love it. His poetry is so very rich and so varied, and covers such an impressive amount of ground. There are anthems, war cries, memories, love songs and hymns to the glory of nature, all writt en in language that is clear, robust, and sometimes luminously, breathtakingly beautiful."

- JOANNE HARRIS
ISBN: 9781911469827

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