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About us
Nine Arches Press is brand new - so new in fact, that we're still dazed and amazed by its sudden materialisation. Exciting times ahead....
The press emerged from an awareness of our local literary landscape, a conviction that the West Midlands had a rich natural resource of innovative, contemporary poets who quite rightly deserved a platform through publication. We had just set up Under the Radar, our new magazine, and soon found that our ideas were quickly demanding more space to lay down their roots. Why set up a poetry press? It seemed like something that needed doing, so that was that.
Though we have a firm foot in the Midlands, we have a national outlook and are interested in meeting poets from both near and far. We're particularly interested in poets whose work engages with contemporary life in Britain, who take risks with language and dare to reinterpret post-industrial landscapes, landmarks and lost accents, among many other things.
Nine Arches Press has a DIY ethic - in that we believe in doing a lot of footwork and word of mouth ourselves, but also in that we believe that publishing doesn't have to be complex, horrendously expensive or formulaic. Combining technology and resourcefulness, we're hoping to create handsome pamphlets and books full of equally desirable poetry. We also believe that poetry is something vital and precious. We hope that all our publications will reflect this ethos in both their aesthetics and content.
Whilst we're very partial to modern poetry, it's also worth mentioning that we are also interested in short stories and fiction, an avenue we hope to explore a bit further down the line.
At this present moment, we are going through the process of actually setting the press up as a business. Things are moving quickly, and we hope to tie up any loose ends in the next few months. In the meantime, please keep an eye on this web site for further developments, new titles and poets and upcoming events.
Matt Nunn & Jane Commane, Nine Arches Press.
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