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Absolutely thrilled to announce our stellar 2021 list & 100th publication today @thebookseller! 
12 books & an extraordinary list of poets for 2021, looking ahead with adventurous, thought-provoking & vital new poetry our readers will love too.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-press-nine-arches-publish-100th-book-followed-12-new-titles-1222677
12 books & an extraordinary list of poets for 2021, looking ahead with adventurous, thought-provoking & vital new poetry our readers will love too.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-press-nine-arches-publish-100th-book-followed-12-new-titles-1222677
First up: January 2021 - a very special 100th publication:
"a journal that chronicles the personal, political upheavals & tragedies of the pandemic in a sequence of sonnets".
A limited run of just 100 hardbacks of @jsaphra's '100 Lockdown Sonnets' with proceeds to charity.
"a journal that chronicles the personal, political upheavals & tragedies of the pandemic in a sequence of sonnets".
A limited run of just 100 hardbacks of @jsaphra's '100 Lockdown Sonnets' with proceeds to charity.
Next, in February 2021:
'The Oscillations' by @katefoxwriter, poet & broadcaster, which also touches on personal experiences of the pandemic and looks at experiences of distance and isolation through a refracted lens of neurodiversity.
'The Oscillations' by @katefoxwriter, poet & broadcaster, which also touches on personal experiences of the pandemic and looks at experiences of distance and isolation through a refracted lens of neurodiversity.
March 2021 brings a new collection by @mailbykite.
'Ultimatum Orangutan' focuses on environmental crises, disability & colonial legacies. Acclaimed poet and academic Khairani Barokka has been a @MPTmagazine Inaugural Poet-in-Residence & is an Associate Artist @WritersCentre
'Ultimatum Orangutan' focuses on environmental crises, disability & colonial legacies. Acclaimed poet and academic Khairani Barokka has been a @MPTmagazine Inaugural Poet-in-Residence & is an Associate Artist @WritersCentre
April 2021 heralds a trio of #Primers poets and their debuts!
First is @kmngriffiths whose collection 'The Attitudes' is an effervescent & inimitable exploration of grief, ideas of faith, the body & what is resolved and unresolved.
First is @kmngriffiths whose collection 'The Attitudes' is an effervescent & inimitable exploration of grief, ideas of faith, the body & what is resolved and unresolved.
Next, May 2021 sees publication of @LewisBuxton93 and his debut 'Boy in Various Poses'.
A bold & tender collection from recent @WinPoetryFest competition winner where boyhood, masculinity and mental health are at the heart of these distinctive poems.
A bold & tender collection from recent @WinPoetryFest competition winner where boyhood, masculinity and mental health are at the heart of these distinctive poems.
And June 2021 brings a first collection by fellow #Primers poet @cynthiawmiller:
'Honorific' is a remarkable book that speaks to "honouring culture but not being able to find the right words for it, to being in the in-between state of language and identity."
'Honorific' is a remarkable book that speaks to "honouring culture but not being able to find the right words for it, to being in the in-between state of language and identity."
July 2021 and we're so pleased to welcome back a longstanding Nine Arches poet @AngelasFollies!
Angela's fourth publication with us will be 'Terminarchy' - poems addressing the point where human & natural concerns collide, an astute, powerful exploration of cause & effect.
Angela's fourth publication with us will be 'Terminarchy' - poems addressing the point where human & natural concerns collide, an astute, powerful exploration of cause & effect.
September brings a debut from Shaun Hill @warmbloodedpoet - recently 1 of 5 poets chosen for
@ApplesAndSnakes & @JerwoodArts Performance in Poetry Programme.
'warm blooded things', an urgent, intimate & deeply precise collection of poems, explores post-capitalist ways of being.
@ApplesAndSnakes & @JerwoodArts Performance in Poetry Programme.
'warm blooded things', an urgent, intimate & deeply precise collection of poems, explores post-capitalist ways of being.
September also sees us welcome back poet & disability activist @danielsluman and his third poetry collection!
'single window' is a unique book of poetic hybridity and experimentation, exploring the realities of disabled experience.
'single window' is a unique book of poetic hybridity and experimentation, exploring the realities of disabled experience.
October 2021 and thrilled to publish debut poems by Bristol City Poet @CalebParkin.
In 'This Fruiting Body', queer ecopoetics forge a vital encounter between human and natural worlds in these vibrant, astonishing poems of being and flourishing.
In 'This Fruiting Body', queer ecopoetics forge a vital encounter between human and natural worlds in these vibrant, astonishing poems of being and flourishing.
November 2021, and we are over the moon to welcome @JaneBurn11, a poet and illustrator based in the Northeast.
The tremendously-titled 'Be Feared' will dauntlessly explore nature, mythology, sexuality, and self-discovery through a late diagnosis of Autism.
The tremendously-titled 'Be Feared' will dauntlessly explore nature, mythology, sexuality, and self-discovery through a late diagnosis of Autism.
In time for Christmas & to round off 2021, we follow up our series of creative writing handbooks with 'Why I Write Poetry' ed. @IanHumphWriter.
24 essays from poets on how they got started, what motivates them to keep going, & offering their best advice to new writers.
24 essays from poets on how they got started, what motivates them to keep going, & offering their best advice to new writers.
So, that's our 2021, and we are so excited to be working with all these superb poets.
It also goes without saying we are enormously thankful to @ace_national @ace_midlands for their continued support to us as an NPO in helping make all of this happen!
It also goes without saying we are enormously thankful to @ace_national @ace_midlands for their continued support to us as an NPO in helping make all of this happen!
And with huge thanks also to our wonderful colleagues @inpressbooks who make sure these fantastic books will find their way through into shops, onto bookshelves & into our readers' hands (& hearts). #IndiePublishers
