Arc Publications imprint: 54 books

by Valérie Rouzeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013

PBS Recommended Translation Winter 2013. Talking Vrouz is the second collection by the prizewinning French poet Valérie Rouzeau to be published by Arc, and it sees the return of her formidable poetic voice. Selected from Rouzeau’s most recent collections, Quand Je Me Deux (2009) and Vrouz (2012),...
by Katherine Gallagher
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

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 on a rich inheritance from these different worlds in her poetry, which is always rooted in a passionate sense of discovery and attention to place.
by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

Aggressive, mocking, tender, full of anguish and anger yet also grimly humorous, 'Pro Eto That's What' is part love poem, part political diatribe and the most autobiographical of Mayakovsky's works. This new translation, complete with the extraordinary photomontages that Alexander Rodchenko created...

Bones Will Crow

15 Contemporary Burmese Poets

by ko ko thett, James Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

This is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets published in the West, and includes the work of Burmese poets who have been in exile and in prison. The poems include global references from a culture in which foreign books and the internet are regarded with suspicion and where censorship...
by Rose Ausländer
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

The experience of living in the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis remains a dark undertow of all the poetry Ausländer wrote, though she rarely addresses it explicitly. The hardships of a life in hiding, the constant fear of Nazi terror, the horror of the concentration camps are all present in many...
by Larissa Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015

Larissa Miller's poems take the reader on a peculiar voyage of unforgettable, potent, and arresting images. Through an array of bewildered speakers Miller leaps from the habitual world into the absurd and places us directly in the strangeness of existence. Miller's use of language is charged with rapture, sensuality and irony.
by Hrachya Sarukhan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013

The bedrock of Armenian poetry is a strong and revered folklore tradition that has produced many outstanding poets from the Middle Ages to modern times, both in Eastern and Western Armenia. As the country and its writers opened up to Western modernism, a huge variety of thematic interactions were...
by Róisín Tierney
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014

As the title suggests, this is a book that contorts the world we know, oddly fluid and yet grounded in subjects that range from rural Ireland to submaritime journeys to Spain, from unheard of languages to ghost dogs. Wherever Tierney takes us she reveals desire, a search for connection with people...
by Richard Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

A hotel with mysterious guests, a city where the moon wanders, an abandoned seaside pavilion, are some of the places visited in this, Richard Lambert's second collection. Structured around a movement from city to sea and always alert to the emotional resonance of landscape, The Nameless Places dwells...
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

Bilingual Edition. Awarded the SchlegelTieck Prize 2013 for translation from German. In his powerful new translation, skilfully shaped into current English, Ian Crockatt succeeds in catching Rilke's blend of crafted sensuality and inwardfocused spiritual searching, while his comprehensive introduction...
by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015

Jan Owen's masterly translation captures all of Baudelaire's passion and anguish in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the volume leading up to his great long poem, 'The Voyage', and finishing with the much-loved sonnet 'Meditation'.
by James Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

James Byrne is Editor and cofounder of The Wolf poetry magazine. Blood / Sugar, his second collection, sparkles with wit and irony. He maintains great technical proficiency in his verse structuring, moving effortlessly between the 'tradition' and the 'innovation' to shape poems that brim with lyricism and confidence. Byrne is a complete original.

To the Silenced

Selected Poems

by Georg Trakl
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014

Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago, the mesmerizing imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work. A source of inspiration...
by Alvin Pang
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

This is a new and selected works, with some poems taken from Alvin Pang's previous three collections. The selection ranges from unsentimental love poems to sharply satirical writing; here are poems that are wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive. They mock, celebrate and unsettle, are generous...
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