My good friend and publisher Joakim Norling has just posted the below on social media:
Timglaset Editions to cease publishing. After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. Manufacturing and shipping costs have risen sharply and sales of the books have unfortunately taken a dive. For a press which has always worked with tight margins and relied on unpaid work and financial support from my own pockets this development has been disturbing. About a month ago it all came to a point where continuing with the press, in its present form, became impossible, when my webshop platform announced its intention to raise prices with 110%. I simply cannot pay the new fee, which means that Timglaset will be without an online selling platform April 1st. So what will happen now? Timglaset will stop publishing new books. I will establish a simple new website with a list of available books, which will allow those who still have an interest to order from the backlist. Up until April 1st the current webshop will be active and there will be a 30% discount on all orders. Just apply the coupon code GOODBYE at checkout. Sincerely, Joakim Norling, publisher.
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and as I wrote Joakim via email:
It’s been clear over the last year or so that things with shifting and changing at Timglaset — the level of news, of posts, of general gossip, and promotion had shifted — but I remained hopeful that the inevitable wouldn’t happen. I completely understand and respect Joakim’s decision to close Timglaset down in its current form; the realities of small and independent publishing is incredibly difficult — and I know that this decision could not have been easy. The support that Joakim and Timglaset has offered me over the years and through many publications has been invaluable; my writing has become weirder and stronger, more confident and clearer-minded, due to his influence, his publishing support, and his friendship. I wish the best for Joakim and for his publishing; there are few presses in the world with the high quality backlist and mandate that he has created. I’m happy to have been a small part of his press. Thank you Joakim for the hours, the conversations, the tireless efforts, the financial investment — for the optimism and willingness to invest where others feared to tread; for being proprietor of one of the world’s most courageous presses. Thank you for publishing me, for inviting and hosting me in Malmö, for meeting me in London, and for so so much more…and thank you for extending that same generosity to so many other authors.
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Timglaset Editions published 5 titles of mine over the years:
SILENCE: LECTURES AND WRITINGS and 150 (for Andy) (both of which remain available for order, use the code GOODBYE for 30% off) and On Syntax (which is out of print but is available as a free PDF), ABC: An Abecedarium (which is available as a free PDF) and isostatisk landhöjning.
My involvement with Timglaset extended beyond simply being published by them: I also contributed a contextualizing essay to Joe Devlin’s Marginalia Drawings, an image to Timglaset magazine #4, and back cover blurbs for Danni Storm’s Herbarium, Andrew Brezna’s Automatic Souls, Catherine Vidler’s Lost Sonnets, and Joakim kindly translated my work as Snälla, inte mer poesi. I also proofread Fernando Aguiar’s Poems without Words, and Amanda Earl’s Judith: Women making visual poetry.
Timglaset has published some astonishingly fabulous books over the years, including, but hardly limited to, Kate Siklosi’s Leavings, Gary Barwin’s Quantum Typography, Sacha Archer’s cellsea and Mother’s Milk, Fernando Aguiar’s Poems without Words, Hartmut Abendschein’s Asemic Walks, and Amanda Earl’s edited volume Judith: Women making visual poetry … and so many more.
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