Colliding ideas through art, illustration and poetry, Hadron Press is a micro-publisher, which launched at Oriel Canfas in Cardiff as part of Paci & Glynn’s Self Help Show 17-28 May 2022. See Self Help Show

Our first publication, Self Help I(s)land is an illustrated playscript and collection of poems, following a pair of characters shipwrecked on a strange island, based partly on Shakespeare's The Tempest.

The book accompanies Self Help Show , asking where to seek help in challenging times, reflecting upon themes of loss and isolation, and how to read, taking a sideways look at the pros and cons of self-help books.

“One of the most intriguing, dynamic, clever books I have now on my shelf.” Menna Elfyn, on Self-Help (I)sland.

Signed Limited edition of 100, £12:00 + P&P. Second edition (2023) £10.00 + P&P. DM/contact us via email for details.

Founding editors Chris Glynn and Luca Paci.
Twitter: @HadronPress

Why ‘Hadron’? Adopting the image of a large scale particle accelerator, we are going in search of lost and hidden fragments of relationship, social affection and aesthetic in public life.

On beginning
”Writing requires commitment and recklessness. Take a line: it is the architecture of a thought. I sit humbly and wait for the words to come. Sometimes they pass like a fleeting bird. Sometimes I sit and wait for nothing. Yet this nothing is the place where words start. This nothing is where something begins.”

LP April 2022


Artist’s impression: how it will be

This network of disconnections
was issued to me directly
and was
unsolvable in real life.

There was more going on there
with others;
unsolvable issues

and I saw
where an audience begins
that the universe is wide.

CG March 2022


Texts from Self Help I(s)land project.

Reading from Self Help I(s)land and Tempo at
These 3 Streams arts festival, Llantwit Major. Photo: Megan Farr.