Arc Publications

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Pedro Serrano’s second book from Arc, and includes work drawn from his three published collections in Mexico as well as unpublished work.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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05/12/2024

𝐶𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑?

by Katherine Gallagher

Now published by Arc Publications:

https://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/katherine-gallagher-can-the-dandelions-be-trusted-694

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.

05/12/2024

Poems Written Through Barbed-wire Fences
by Ro Mehrooz
Translated from the Rohingya by the poet & James Byrne
This chapbook by Ro Mehrooz is the first time that the work of a single Rohingyan poet has appeared in print in a bilingual edition. The Rohingya people continue to experience genocide at the hands of the Myanmar military, so it is not surprising that Ro’s poems are full of anger, anguish and despair, although there are moments of light as he reflects upon the traditions and customs of his people. James Byrne’s informative introduction, together with Ro’s deeply-affecting poems, paint a stark and unforgettable picture of this war-torn, torture-ravaged and largely forgotten area of Myanmar.
ISBN: 9781911469834

03/12/2024

Dilawar Karadaghi is a Kurdish poet, translator, essayist, playwright and theatre director. Born in the city of Slemani, in southern Kurdistan, in 1963, he graduated in drama at the Baghdad University College of Fine Arts in 1986. He started writing poetry in 1982 when he was 19 years old. After the Iraq-Iran war he went into exile in Iran for two years, then moved to Sweden in 1999.

Karadaghi is one of the most important contemporary Kurdish poets, having published 10 collections of poems. He has been nominated for major poetry awards, including being shortlisted for the 2020 American Pushcart Prize. His poetry was translated into Arabic and published in Syria in 2000, receiving a great deal of attention in the Arabic-speaking world. His work has been translated into English, French, Swedish, Arabic, Persian and Spanish and readings of his poetry have been held in Kurdistan, the UK, Sweden and Iran.

(2024)

03/12/2024

Now published: 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 by Lucija Stupica.

Translated from the Slovene by Andrej Peric, introduced by Alvin Pang.

𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑠 is Lucia Stupica’s fourth book of poetry and comes after a decade of silence in which her poetic voice has become more complex and sensitive to the cracks in time and in the world through which she observes fragments of life – imperfect, painful and real. Her expression has retained its tenderness, establishing a deep dialogue with the world, the past and the present, and with appearances and the things they conceal. In her attempt at a new understanding of the world, Stupica is not writing the story of her own role, but of the role of women as the hidden movers of history, and the role of those, be they a man, a child or a random stranger, who see the experience of the other, and are open to it. These poems of love, loss, mystery and what lies beyond our understanding make for a haunting and memorable collection in Andrej Peric’s beautiful translation.

https://www.arcpublications.co.uk/books/lucija-stupica-vanishing-points-695