News and blogs from Arc Publications http://www.arcpublications.co.uk Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:12:55 GMT Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:00:00 GMTArc's titles due in the coming months:http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=71http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=71Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:26:08 -0100We are very proud of the geographical diversity of our publishing project, and so to show off just how globe-spanning our list of authors is, we are working on a Google Map...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=70http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=70Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:27:56 -0100We were talking about the readers we have particuarly enjoyed hearing over the year and thought given it's that time, we'd give a short round of the great readers we've heard this year on our travels.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=69http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=69Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:27:58 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=68http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=68Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:07:01 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=67http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=67Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:12:40 -0100We were thrilled to read one of Simon Armitage's choices for his books of the year in this week's Guardian.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=66http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=66Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:06:43 -0100We were so disappointed to hear that the great Lithuanian poet Marcelijus Martinaintis was too ill to travel over to England last month to read his poems as we had arranged. However we had Laima Vince, his wonderfully articulate and entertaining translator, joining us for the reading tour, so we decided to turn the events into a conversation between Tony and Laima.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=65http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=65Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:57:36 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=64http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=64Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:04:17 -0100An obituary to Anna Adams, who died on 3rd October 2011, aged 85, can be found at http://bit.ly/qFEC0J.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=63http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=63Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:26:43 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=62http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=62Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:04:28 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=61http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=61Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:12:29 -0100'One of this country's most vibrant and versatile writers' (Observer)http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=56http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=56Tue, 24 May 2011 19:20:30 -0100Arc have recently returned from a trip to Armenia at the invitation of poet Razmic Davoyan and his wife and translator Armine Tamrazian, to make a formal presentation of Razmic's book Whispers and Breath of the Meadows, (no. 27 in Arc's Visible Poets series).http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=55http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=55Wed, 18 May 2011 16:12:29 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=54http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=54Sat, 14 May 2011 20:37:51 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=52http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=52Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:59:48 -0100Arc Publications heard on Wednesday 30 March that it was one of 206 arts organizations in England that would lose their Arts Council England funding at the end of the coming financial year. There will, of course, be other streams of funding, notably from the National Lottery (Grants for the Arts), that Arc can apply for, but these are only to support specific 'projects' over a maximum 2-year period and cannot be used to underpin our day-to-day activities, nor our future development. This obviously is enormously destabilising for an active, energetic press like Arc.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=51http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=51Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:09:59 -0100As part of the University of Manchester series of poetry readings, http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=50http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=50Fri, 25 Mar 2011 19:42:29 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=53http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=53Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:58:35 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=49http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=49Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:42:59 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=48http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=48Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:27:21 -0100http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=47http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=47Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:01:55 -0100Razmik Davoyan honoured at birthday celebrationshttp://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=43http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=43Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:20:25 -0100In June this year, Cold Spring in Winter by Valérie Rouzeau, translated from the French by Susan Wicks, was one of four international titles shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. One of the conditions of the prize is that the author / translator reads at the prize-giving, and Susan has just sent us a You-tube clip of Valerie and her giving another stunning performance...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=18http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=18Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:17:52 -0100We heard on Tuesday of this week the sad news that the poet Pete Morgan died on Monday 5 July 2010. The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy wrote of her old friend: "There are famous poets of my generation and younger who have no idea of the debt they owe to Pete Morgan. His poems are dramatic, formally superb, funny, toughly tender, lyrical and never less than entertaining." Tony Ward got to know Pete when he published his pamphlet I See You On My Arm in 1975, and Arc was privileged to publish his last full collection, August Light. Tony has written about his long friendship with Pete in the Arc blog. http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=42http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=42Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:56:57 -0100On the morning of 6 July, a shock telephone call came telling me that Pete Morgan had died the night before. It seemed such a short while ago that he had filled the main concert hall at York University and held the capacity audience spellbound. His old magic had returned — indeed it had probably never gone; it was simply waiting for the right opportunity. Along with the newly-appointed Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy (one of his biggest fans), Ian McMillan and an assemblage of very well-known musicians, he was celebrating his 70th birthday by reading from what turned out to be his last full-length collection, August Light...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=17http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=17Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:56:25 -0100In an article on Amarjit Chandan by Tom Mellen in The Morning Star [» read the full article], Chandan discusses his background and what made him a radical and a poet. "Prison sharpened my appreciation of the inner life – the solitary life. This, combined with the loneliness I experienced in Britain – these two things made me a poet..." The article features 'The Song Of The Bike' from Arc's Sonata For Four Hands – '...While cycling I take my country forward While cycling I sharpen my class consciousness...'http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=41http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=41Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:51:28 -0100Arc's Susan Wicks, for Valérie Rouzeau's Cold Spring in Winter, and Larisa Gureyeva & George Hyde, for Vladimir Mayakovsky's Pro Eto — That's What, have been shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=40http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=40Tue, 25 May 2010 08:27:32 -0100The distinguished poet, Peter Porter, died on 23 April 2010, after being treated for cancer. He was a great friend to Arc, having championed and supported the press for many years and having been a member of the Arc Board for the past 5 years...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=39http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=39Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:23:58 -0100Valérie Rouzeau's Cold Spring in Winter is one of four international books to be shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize – the world's biggest.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=38http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=38Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:00:42 -0100Arc's Ewa Lipska and Tomas Salamun were among the poets commissioned by The New York Times to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. » www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/08/opinion/08berlinpoems.htmlhttp://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=36http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=36Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:17:32 -0100There's a good, illuminating interview with Larissa Miller by Ruth O'Callaghan on Larissa Miller's website. www.larisamiller.ru/introc.htmlhttp://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=35http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=35Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:32:03 -0100It's always good to see our books getting the prominence they deserve – and perhaps the staff at Foyles couldn't resist this Alexander Rodchenko image on the cover. Thanks to our colleagues at Inpress for spotting this.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=10http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=10Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:49:30 -0100On 11 August Ian Pople visited Canada to read at Art Bar Poetry in Toronto. » Ian Pople – August 11, 2009, at Art Bar Poetryhttp://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=34http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=34Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:29:30 -0100To celebrate the 80th birthday of Remco Campert, his Dutch publishers arranged a party where many well known poets and authors read specially written pieces before a very distinguished audience. The event concluded with Campert reading two of his own poems...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=37http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=37Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:03:14 -0100Brian Johnstone, whose The Book of Belongings was published by Arc in August, is September's Poet of the Month on the Scottish Poetry Library website. http://www.spl.org.ukhttp://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=33http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=33Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:17:37 -0100Arc Publications has been sad to learn of the death of James Kirkup, co-translator of 'We of Zipangu', on 10th May 2009. » www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/16/obituaryhttp://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=32http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=32Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:02:21 -0100We've just come back from what we think is one of the best of the UK poetry festivals – but not before losing a battle with Worldbridge, the private company which now handles visa applications for the British Government.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=3http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=3Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:52:54 -0100There's an audio clip of Remco Campert reading the poem 'Lament', from I Dreamed in the Cities at Night, on the Netherlands Poetry International Web site. http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=31http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=31Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:37:42 -0100Reminder: The closing date for entries in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2009 (judged by Ruth Padel) is 24 April 2009. For full details of the competition, visit www.mslexia.co.uk.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=30http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=30Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:46:08 -0100Congratulations to Arc's UK/Ireland editor, John Clarke, who has been shortlisted in the 2009 Strokestown Poetry Competition. He and the other short-listed poets are invited to read a selection of their work at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival, which takes place over the week-end of 1st-3rd May 2009 at Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Prize-winners will be announced at the Festival.http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=29http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=29Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:50:56 -0100Midnight and its author Mourid Barghouti are deservedly getting plenty of attention...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=28http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=28Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:16:29 -0100Regina Derieva's first volume of poems to be published in England, 'The Sum Total of Violations' will be launched in Sweden on Friday, February 6th at St. Eugenia's reading hall situated at Kungsträdgarden 12 in central Stockholm...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=27http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=27Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:38:49 -0100Arc Publications gained a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Guests of Eternity, the translation by Richard McKane of one of Russia's most highly regarded writers Larissa Miller...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=26http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=26Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:05:04 -0100Arc has signed up the hugely influential Lithuanian poet Marcelijus Martinaitis with his work, the classic, 'The Ballads of Kukutis', translated by Laima Sruoginis...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=25http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=25Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:39:38 -0100An article by Lorna Thorpe – Did anxiety cause my heart attack? – appeared in last Friday's Guardian...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=24http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=24Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:11:00 -0100 There's an excellent profile of Mourid Barghouti, whose Midnight and Other Poems has recently been published by Arc, in today's Guardian...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=23http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=23Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:24:11 -0100It is with great regret that we announce the death of the poet Jacqueline Brown on Thursday 11 September 2008 after a long illness that had kept her in hospital since January of this year...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=22http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=22Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0100"I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanise, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe. But now I think that poetry changes only the poet." This time he was wrong. This man's poetry has changed the language of Arabic writing and shifted readers' conceptions of resistance poetry...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=21http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=21Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0100The outstanding contribution that Jean Boase-Beier, Arc's Translation Editor, has made to the field of literary translation world-wide has been recognized by the University of East Anglia where she has just been awarded a personal Chair in the School of Literature and Creative Writing...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=1http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=1Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0100We are delighted to announce that John Clarke, the Director of the Beverley Literature Festival, has agreed to become Arc's new UK & Ireland Editor...http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=2http://www.arcpublications.co.uk/blog.php?blog_id=2Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0100