Atlas Press

27/01/2024

One year has passed since Alastair disappeared into the Great Unknown. We will celebrate him today from 4-6.30pm with the launch of the “Reliquary of the Painting Machine” an exhibition by Magnus Irvin and performances and a Pear Atlas Pie. At England & Co’s Project Space at the Sotheran’s Building, 2A Sackville Street, Piccadilly, London W1S 3DP

04/12/2023

Forty Years of Atlas Press was celebrated Small Publishers’ Fair just past and here is the link to the Exhibition and a lovely piece by Malcolm Green co-founder of Atlas called “Remembering Alastair Brotchie” http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/forty-years-of-atlas-press/

01/11/2023

Atlas Press Unica Zurn books reviewed:

Disentangling the writing and life of German artist-author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) is both impossible and unnecessary. By inclination, I try to detach my criticism and understanding of art and liter…

23/03/2023

Alastair Brotchie: Giving a damn - TLS the-tls.co.uk/articles/givin… Extract from a longer article in TLS 24/3/23

24/02/2023

With thanks to Peter Blegvad and Chris Allen for this Obituary.

Other lives: Author and publisher who brought avant-garde European literature to the UK market in readable translations

01/02/2023

“What I like about this work is the appetite it expresses for an unattainable purity, the faith it places in the untamed imagination, the horror it manifests with regard to any kind of fixity… in fact, the way almost every page of it refuses to accept that human condition against which some will never cease to rebel, however reasonably society may one day be ordered.”

“Aurora” by Michel Leiris published by Atlas Press.

Atlas Press, Malcolm Green, Anthony Melville, Chris Allen and Tanya Peixoto, bookartbookshop, are deeply saddened to announce the death of their brilliant colleague and dearest friend Alastair Brotchie, the driving force behind Atlas Press, publishers of the anti-tradition since 1983.

At some point there will be a space on the website or similar for tributes to Alastair and Atlas Press, as we know that many people’s lives have been changed by their books.

03/10/2022