Arc Publications

16/09/2025

'CATHEDRAL-LIKE' Prue Chamberlayne's poem from our newest publication LIZZARD LOOKS ✨🦎

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02/09/2025

Lizard Looks
by Prue Chamberlayne

The past and distant past creeps through the lines and unsaid words in these poems; they explore how the past forms the present and connects our shared humanity. These are sensual poems, where sound, history and the natural world are dominant. A Madonna points to heaven in a silent French Chapel; snowdrops shock us with their vulnerability yet resilience; rivers are uncontainable, unstoppable, in turmoil, which leads us to question our own mortality. We must listen to the voices of our ancestors, respect the natural world, revalue ourselves, or face the consequences.

ISBN: 9781911469964For publication September 2025

12/08/2025

Nightsongs for Gaia
by James Byrne
New and Selected Poems
Nightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poems spans over twenty years of James Byrne’s poetic practice. Accomplished in both formal and innovative modes, Byrne’s poetry is visionary, attentive and curious, encapsulating a global sensibility. Selecting from seven full collections and various pamphlets, Nightsongs brings together works unavailable in England until now. Here, we encounter a poetics that works with communities to further consider a sense of self and otherness and is unique in its musicality. Nightsongs celebrates the work of one of the most gifted poets of his generation.

"James Byrne's poetry has always been lyrically complex, with a voice that is singular and instantly striking. What particularly strikes the reader of his Nightsongs for Gaia: New and Selected Poems is its capaciousness. This book takes us on a journey from his youth, via places of recent conflict such as Myanmar and Libya in a way that few contemporary writers across the globe can match. He makes most poet writers today look like they’re jogging in a bathtub."
- Antony Rowland
  
"Nightsongs for Gaia presents alchemical fissures of a heart reduced to gold with no other substance to turn (in)to. A fiery presence of augury, of premonition, burns from the outset with a wary flame. Byrne has seen many places, been many things, and  undergone visceral self-haunting in many guises. To say the Nightsongs are oracular is to understate the poet's own sense of knowingness. Here, exquisite beauty prevails."
- Kirsten Norrie

"James Byrne’s Nightsongs for Gaia is an extraordinary body of work—restless, urgent, and deeply humane. These poems move fluidly between the intimate and the geopolitical, tracing loss, exile, and resilience with a precision that is both unflinching and tender. Byrne affirms poetry as an act of witness and transformation. This is a vital, necessary collection."
- Aaron Kent
ISBN: 9781911469841

05/08/2025

Did you watch our recent launch of Poems Written Through Barbed-Wire Fences? If not, click the link in story and highlights.
Add Arc Publications on YouTube! 🎙️
https://youtu.be/Xzorbb_GbYM?feature=shared

15/07/2025

𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑖𝑎, by James Byrne, is published today and available through our website: https://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/james-byrne-nightsongs-for-gaia-699

25/06/2025

See the full official launch & discussion of 𝑃𝑜𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑑-𝑊𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzorbb_GbYM

16/04/2025

Three members of Ver Poets have recently published new collections, all of which I recommend. Can the Dandelions Be Trusted? by Katherine Gallagher (Arc Publications, £10.99) In her seventh fu…

15/04/2025

The Conjurer

by Pedro Serrano

Translated from the Spanish & introduced by Anna Crowe

The Conjurer is Pedro Serrano’s second book from Arc, and includes work drawn from his three published collections in Mexico as well as unpublished work. These are powerful poems which explore the natural world in all its wonder with a close and meticulous attention that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. Serrano’s rich and complex lexicon and his mastery of poetic form, metaphor and diction are perfectly captured in Anna Crowe’s sensitive and compelling translation – for those who have not encountered Serrano’s poetry before, this is an unmissable introduction to the work of one of Mexico’s leading contemporary poets.

ISBN: 9781911469780
Published January 2025

30/01/2025

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑗𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑟, by Pedro Serrano, published tomorrow by Arc Publications. These are powerful poems which explore the natural world in all its wonder with a close and meticulous attention that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. The book is now available to pre-order through our website:
https://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/pedro-serrano-the-conjurer-697

22/01/2025

🕯️ Holocaust Memorial Day 🕯️
Monday 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 🙏🏻📚🎙️

17/12/2024

https://youtu.be/tk4cLywqbhI
𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦: 𝑃𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑠, by Virgil; reading & discussion with translator Fred Beake & Prof. Jean Boase-Beier

"Dreaming of an Ancient Country: Passages from the Georgics", by Virgil; this video from Arc Publications is a reading from the chapbook & discussion with tr...

10/12/2024

Can the Dandelions be Trusted?

by Katherine Gallagher
Katherine Gallagher has a loyal readership both in the UK and in her native Australia and her latest book from Arc will not disappoint. Ranging in time and place from her childhood in the Australian outback to heady youthful days in Paris of the ‘60s, to slower-paced recent years in the gardens and open spaces around her north London home, these poems are full of a colour and energy that paint a picture of life lived to the full, and also a reflectiveness, a gentle humour, and occasionally a sense of loss, as the poet looks back on times past.
ISBN: 9781911469568




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