agAInst is a vital and impassioned broadside against artificial intelligence, the latest creative tour de force by writer Michael John Gerard Higgins and published by The Artel Press (Liverpool, UK) in Spring 2026.
New: A Tractatus of Teaching
This Spring sees publication of our new title from Michael John Gerard Higgins exploring education through the dramatic lens of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. To a Teaching takes the Tractatus (1921) as the model for this impassioned, pedagogical manifesto; an experimental…
New Poetry from Bleakley and Neilson
May 2025 sees the forthcoming publication by The Artel Press of a collaboration between distinguished poets Prof Alan Bleakley (UK) and Dr Shane Neilson (Canada). Their new collection The Cost of Living features over 60 new poems powerfully reflecting on…
A Sublime Allegory in New Fiction
The latest title from The Artel Press is a work of the broadest, wildest ‘artefictual extelligence’, a ‘sublime allegory’, of and against its time. ‘Seeing is Beveiling’ (sic) by Michael John Gerard Higgins incorporates music, drawings, photography and a series…
An Illusory Natural History in Poems
The Artel Press looks forward this autumn to the publication of a new collection of poems from the writer and medical educator Prof Alan Bleakley. The Bio-illogical explores the life of objects in 33 acutely observed poems which brilliantly tease…