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Birhan Keskin's (b. Kirklareli, Turkey, 1963) poetry is finely-honed and minimal and at the same time, powerfully visual, evocative and exact. Meaning and music overlap, lines dissolve, restart and...

An extraordinary collection of sonnets composed while the poet was in solitary confinement and deprived of writing materials in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942, in a new...

This exciting anthology maps a singular encounter between two groups of poets, one based in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the other in the North East of England. Over a period of four years, these...

Jackie Wills brings a multitude of characters to these poems including a young man sleeping in his car, an amateur entomologist, bird catchers, her jilted aunt, Ray Dorset, the three Robins, the...

This collection is bejewelled throughout with haiku-like moments of vivid observation. Her responses-in particular to the natural world- serve to peel away the film of familiarity through which we...

"Curtis's humour and charm, ability to turn a poem with the seemingly simplest of images, and that understanding of how words will play over the listener's ear, are hallmarks brought to the fore on...

With an Introduction by Rod Mengham. In The Silo, John Kinsella's fifth book of poems (and the second published by Arc), the poet examines the role of the artist in the landscape and the unique...

These poems are written from across the poet's life, contemplating his native land of Russia from both a literal and a figurative distance, while at the same time casting a sometimes jaundiced eye on...

As Slow As PossibleAuthor: Kit FanPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: Sep 24, 2018Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469436ISBN-13: 9781911469438

In this powerful and moving book, Maram al- Masri, the award-winning Syrian poet who has lived much of her life in Paris, presents us with a chronicle of the lives of others - women and some of their...

Ludwig Steinherr is one of the most compelling new voices to have emerged in Germany since the late 1980s and this selection - the first to appear in English - from his 10 poetry collections...

Bigger Than the FactsAuthor: Jan BaekePublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: Mar 16, 2020Number of Pages: 142 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469576ISBN-13: 9781911469575

Bloodhoof is the re-casting into compulsively spare modern verse of an ancient Eddic poem . It is a minimalist epic telling of the abduction of Gerour Gymisdottir from a land of giants and the...

Brimstone : A Book of VillanellesAuthor: John KinsellaPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: Aug 20, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1908376090ISBN-13:...

The late 1980s witnessed two devastating chemical attacks by the Saddam régime on Iraqi Kurdistan. Butterfly Valley is Sherko Bekes' response to these atrocities. Stunned by the world's silence in...

Caldebroc - 9781911469315Author: Antony RowlandPublisher: Arc PublicationsPublication Date: Apr 03, 2023Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469312ISBN-13:...

Camp Notebook is a masterpiece in its own right, a crucial work of European verse. It is one of the greatest pieces of literature to emerge from the Holocaust, and probably the finest volume of...

This collection draws work from 5 of Gallagher's previous collections, together with a substantial body of new work. Born in Australia, Gallagher moved to Paris before settling in London. She draws...

It is hard to imagine a time when coffee drinking was not part of every-day life and yet it was not until the end of the seventeenth century that it became widespread in Europe. The visit of the...

When Columns, a slim volume of poems written by an unknown young Russian poet named Nikolai Zabolotsky, appeared in 1929, it took the literary world of Leningrad [St. Petersburg] by storm. Zabolotsky...

A modern sensibility suffused with urban sophistication. In everyday scenes he shows us what's most noble in human relationships, alongside the basest fears and anxieties. Irony and sarcasm somehow...

Crash & BurnAuthor: Michael O'NeillPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: Apr 01, 2019Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469665ISBN-13: 9781911469667

A genuinely unique European treasure, this volume bristles with the Viking verses of Rognvaldr, Earl of Orkney, recorded in Orkneyinga Saga. Full of highly stylised, often grotesque images, Ian...

Ivana Milankov is one of Serbia's best-known poets whose poems question themselves as much as they question the world around them. Distances in space and time are reduced to the size of a line break...

Dr?Author: Gerdur KristnyPublisher: Arc PublicationsPublication Date: Mar 30, 2018Number of Pages: 122 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469266ISBN-13: 9781911469261

Eternal Traffic : Working TitleAuthor: Mila HaugovaPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: Feb 07, 2020Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1911469606ISBN-13:...

One hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War, Wioletta Greg traces the seams of a family history through a century of life, death, love and tragedy with passion and humour.Author:...

The poems in this collection move from memories of Libya before the revolution, to Libya engulfed in violent turmoil, to life in exile in the brooding landscape of Norway. Seen through the eyes of...

Tony Curtis's new collection grows out of his fascination with the everyday, the quirky, the downright extraordinary. These are poems wrapped up in love and death, friendship and memory, madness and...

Gravity for BeginnersAuthor: Kevin Crossley-HollandPublisher: ARC PublicationsPublication Date: Apr 30, 2021Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1910345393ISBN-13:...