From KATHERINE GALLAGHER, poet and translator
In recent years, through hard work, high standards, and attention to detail, Arc Publications has gone from strength to strength to become a wide-ranging publishing house in the front-line of UK and international contemporary poetry publishing, backed by a sharply-attuned response to the latest developments in poetry and its marketing. In sum, Arc has become a top rank publisher of new and established poets in the UK and abroad, and of international poets writing in English, alongside the work of leading overseas poets in translation. In an increasingly global world, Arc’s achievement, supported by their ambitious, wide distribution, has become noteworthy, highly commendable, and an earner for the UK.
Passionate, professional, innovative, and authentic in their dealings with poetry buyers, readers and poets, Arc has earned its increasingly world-wide reputation with consistently high standards of value and prompt service. This is especially evident in Arc’s expanding list of translations of poets from a range of countries – a list that is adventurous, unique for its range and quality, and use of expert translators. And, most importantly, Arc translations are always presented in dual-text.
From every angle, speaking as a poet, translator, reader, and poetry-lover, I would like to affirm the world-wide contribution made by Arc Publications and to express my hope that the Arts Council decision to no longer fund Arc be reversed.