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PVA is a publisher based in Dublin and Berlin. We aim to publish clear, accessible writing through active and critical editorial interaction.
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⚡️ Cover reveal ⚡️ We are delighted to announce our next title, forthcoming in September. Colin Graham’s 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 is a book of personal essays that traces connections across the author’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Rooted in his experience growing up in 1980s Belfast, these personal essays reach out to the present day and reflect back on their origins, each asking in a different way how the self is formed and how what we read and see makes us who we are. Interweaving politics, literature, music, and nature, 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 moves across memory and experience, text and sense, cataloguing and examining the entangled elements of a life. 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗺 is Professor of English at Maynooth University. He is the author of 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥: 30 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (2001), and 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘤 (1998). He was the co-editor of the 𝘐𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 from 2004 to 2020. Publication date: September 2026 Cover design: Tom Etherington Cover image: Victoria J Dean Author photo: Finn Richards Pre-orders open now, see link in bio! Colin will be speaking about and reading from 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 in Belfast later today @cathedralquarterartsfest With thanks to the Arts council of Ireland for their support! @artscouncilireland @nineteenacres @_tometherington @finnrichards #sensation #pvabooks #nonfiction #essaycollection #colingraham
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FEATURED ARTICLE: Fiona Marron—The centrality of bodies Thanks to Dennis McNulty, who reviewed the recent Artist-Initiated Projects exhibition "The centrality of bodies" by Fiona Marron for Paper Visual Art. Read the full article through the link in our bio. "In Marron’s recent exhibition at Pallas Projects/Studios, The centrality of bodies, her kinship with academia is most explicit in her collaboration with Jane Ruffino, a researcher currently pursuing a PhD on the contemporary archaeology of the undersea fibre-optic cable network. As a UX architect and archaeologist, Ruffino deals with both the construction and the reconstruction of sociotechnical systems. An A4 sheet that accompanies the exhibition pamphlet reproduces a short text by Ruffino on one side and Marron’s black-and-white image titled Grappling Rope (2025–26) on the other. The text gathers participant-observer style notebook entries that focus on bodily encounters with the materiality of network technologies. In vividly describing the kind of knowing that comes from doing, Ruffino refers explicitly and tangentially to some of the contexts explored in Marron’s artworks. Her text acts as a useful foil to the exhibition, eschewing the academic tendency to claim a position of expertise. Instead, her writing gently informs and contextualises the work. As in art practice, speculation plays an important role in archaeologists’ engagement with visual artefacts, and Ruffino’s text parallels the work, in the sense that they both enact a process of bringing knowledge into being." Photos by @photo_by_shapoval @artscouncilire @pva_journal #ArtistInitatedProjects #AIP2026 #ContemporaryArt #IrishArt #ArtistRun #ArtistRunEurope #ArtistRunSpace #ArtistRunSpaces #PPS #PallasProjects #opencall #announcement #dublin #ireland #AIP
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In our third episode, Nathan O'Donnell, editor of PVA (Journal + Books), talks to us about how he uses strategies of editing across his diverse practice, from producing publications to working in educational scenarios.
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New review on the website: Dennis McNulty writes on Fiona Marron’s recent exhibition, The Centrality of Bodies, at @pallas.projects.studios ‘In these video works, Marron focuses on situations where human bodies brush up against technologies that are active at very different spatial and temporal scales.’ Dennis McNulty is an artist, researcher, music-maker, and instrument designer. He is currently a funded research assistant at Trinity College Dublin in Prof. Dan Kilper’s research group, where he thinks about the role of diagrams in cross-disciplinary collaboration, particularly in quantum networking research. Image: Fiona Marron, The centrality of bodies, 2026, installation view, Pallas Projects/Studios. Photo: Serhii Shapoval. Courtesy of the artist and Pallas Projects/Studios. Link in bio! With thanks as always to @artscouncilireland for their support.
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Come see us at Tsundoku Art Book Fair in Dublin this weekend! 🌊 🌊 🌊 @image.museum.ireland @photoireland
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Irish literary journals are the bedrock of our literary culture, publishing exciting work, discovering new voices and publishing them alongside many of our greatest writers 💗 Join Eimear Ryan from Banshee, Dean Fee from The Pig’s Back and Nathan O’Donnell from PVA as they discuss the culture of journals, the joys and challenges of editing fiction and non-fiction, and answer your questions on publishing 💭 🗓️ Saturday, 25 April 2026 ⌚️ 12:00pm 🎟️ €5/8 📌 The Mick Lally Theatre @themicklallytheatre 🔗 Tickets at Cúirt.ie - Link in bio - @thtgalway In association with ‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ Training Network | Cúirt International Festival of Literature is presented by Galway Arts Centre
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We are so looking forward to taking part in @cuirtfestival again this year! On Saturday 25 April, our coeditor Nathan O’Donnell @nathanhughodonnell will be part of a discussion about editing, literary (and art) journals, and small-press publishing, with two other excellent editors: @eims86 of @bansheepress & @dean_fee of @the_pigs_back . And the next day, Sunday 26 April, curator and writer Beulah Ezeugo @b3333333ulah will speak about her contribution to our most recent book, an essay on film-making and the monuments of Calabar, ‘Afterimage’, at @galwayartscentr , in conversation with O’Donnell and Padraig Regan @padraig_regan who has curated the current exhibition at the gallery, ‘usual and generous ways’, featuring works from the @immaireland collection. Do join us if you’re in Galway. Lots of other rich activity in the festival programme too!
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We’re delighted to share that our latest book of essays is one of the Top 10 Best Sellers at @booksupstairs 🎉📚 If you haven't already, head to Books Upstairs to get your own copy of 𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴. Thank you to everyone who has supported, read, and shared our work! #PVAJournal #PVABooks #PVA #ArtBooks #monuments @artscouncilireland @roisinkiberd @b3333333ulah @neil.hegarty.50 @rebeccasueodwyer @belmckeon @tillwhentillman @seanlynch31 @profdanhicks @gail_mcconnell_ @slinkogram @amit_chaudhuri @jack0delaney @adrian__duncan__ @nathanhughodonnell @niamh__dunphy @daly_lyon
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Our latest title, 𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, is the fourth in our ongoing series of essay collections, with previous books focused on music, film, and the animal world. We're delighted to see all four side by side as the series continues to develop! @artscouncilireland @roisinkiberd @b3333333ulah @neil.hegarty.50 @rebeccasueodwyer @belmckeon @tillwhentillman @seanlynch31 @profdanhicks @gail_mcconnell_ @slinkogram @amit_chaudhuri #monuments #pvabooks #asifnothingcouldfall @jack0delaney @adrian__duncan__ @nathanhughodonnell @niamh__dunphy #bookstagram @daly_lyon 📸 @_didraws
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Thanks to all who came along to join us for the launch of 𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 last night @booksupstairs ! With gorgeous readings by Julie Bates, Gavin Corbett, Neil Hegarty, and Roisin Kiberd. We’re delighted to see the book making its way into the world. With thanks to @daly_lyon for their beautiful design & @artscouncilireland for their support! @neil.hegarty.50 @roisinkiberd @nathanhughodonnell @adrian__duncan__ @niamh__dunphy @_didraws @jack0delaney
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Only a few places left for the launch of our new book 𝘈𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭: 𝘌𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 @booksupstairs Wednesday at 6 pm! You can grab your free tickets in the bio now. 🔗 Our readers for the evening will be Julie Bates, Gavin Corbett, Neil Hegarty, and Roisin Kiberd! We hope to see you there. @booksupstairs @artscouncilireland @nathanhughodonnell @niamh__dunphy @adrian__duncan__ @jack0delaney @neil.hegarty.50 @roisinkiberd #Books #AsIfNothingCouldFall #Monuments #PVABooks #PVA @b3333333ulah @rebeccasueodwyer @belmckeon @tillwhentillman @seanlynch31 @profdanhicks @gail_mcconnell_ @slinkogram @daly_lyon
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💥my own copy hasn’t arrived yet but my colleague Mark, librarian here at the @pittriversmuseum , just gave me this which just arrived—and it’s wonderful to see this beautiful new volume from @pva_journal in real life some great essays on monuments and the monumental by among others @rebeccasueodwyer @tillwhentillman @amit_chaudhuri @b3333333ulah @seanlynch31 @neil.hegarty.50 @roisinkiberd @gail_mcconnell_ @belmckeon @larapawson @slinkogram — and a little bit of family-history-meets-monumentality from me you can order through @pva_journal
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