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Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, arranged diagonally, spines facing outwards.

Special offer from Longbarrow Press: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite, 'The Footing' anthology, and more

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I'm willing to bet that these people are not spending their disposable income on books, either

Crazy golf is the highest form of golf

Farmfoods Institute of Reduced Arts

Don’t sleep on this, read these before sleep and you’ll feel better in the morning.

A white sign with black text on a Stone wall, reflected in still water. The sign says: the remains of a wooden icebreaker lie submerged.

obsessed with this sign warning of a submerged icebreaker, written upside down to be read in reflection in the still water of Leeds-Liverpool Canal, which I’ve never seen frozen over, fwiw. near Armley, Leeds

I mean, I wouldn't go anyway, even if I had the money (the photos make it look like a vast corporate creche, and I'd probably spend three days hiding behind the rented scenery), but the 'catering contractor clause' would be a deal-breaker

In related news, we have sold one book in four days

Unsolicited London Book Fair meeting request #8: "Hi Brian, I know you’re likely in the midst of final preparations for London—" Er, no. A 2 sqm stand (for an independent publisher) costs approximately £900 (not including furniture, lights, electricity). You can't even bring your own sandwiches.

Fill yer boots / shopping baskets.

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, arranged diagonally, spines facing outwards.

Special offer from Longbarrow Press: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite, 'The Footing' anthology, and more

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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

Three copies of Steve Ely's collection 'Eely' arranged against an orange background.

She travelled from the German Sea,
in search of the Azores Current, the mesopelagic
slip-road to the North Atlantic Gyre:
which she found in Cenozoic blackness
among the seamounts north of Flores...

'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
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Several copies of Peter Riley's collection 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' against an orange background.

Like holding a young child on a wall to see the sea
for the first time, at dawn, the world’s thought-task,
vast, and simple, and irreversible.

'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
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The windows of John Lewis, Barker’s Pool, Sheffield, 12 April 2021. The closure of the store was announced on 24 March 2021; it did not reopen. Photograph: Brian Lewis.

When I lost interest in narrative, I lost the stories of my own life, I couldn’t fill the holes in the plot. I started to tell the stories again, piecing them together from what others had told me, their remembering was my remembering. The telling is all.
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Turquoise banner for States of Independence 2026

Looking forward to the States of Independence one-day festival and book fair in Leicester on Sat 28 March. Stallholders inc. @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and Longbarrow Press, and there's a varied programme of talks and events (further details to follow). 10am-4pm, all welcome, admission free.

I just enjoyed finishing listening in bed this morning to Brian Lewis’ & Chris Jones’ podcast discussion here. How cities and ourselves come and go in walking, writing & remembering. ‘Writing the moment, then it’s gone’ without resolution. #poetrysheffield #writingsheffield

The windows of John Lewis, Barker’s Pool, Sheffield, 12 April 2021. The closure of the store was announced on 24 March 2021; it did not reopen. Photograph: Brian Lewis.

When I lost interest in narrative, I lost the stories of my own life, I couldn’t fill the holes in the plot. I started to tell the stories again, piecing them together from what others had told me, their remembering was my remembering. The telling is all.
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The same text has appeared in Sheffield, too (fortunately, it's just a fussily designed bill poster, and will be gone in a few weeks)

Think Positive This is how it will be in a year, he says – Nina Simone’s Feeling Good in his head; The big swing band bursting in like God Or a new pay-scale.  Think positive, he says. The on-time train advances …

Thinking a thing doesn’t make it so,
or wanting it. He can see it clearly now.
He’ll walk right in to chair the meeting
& the music, the swift, the sun – whatever –
none of it will touch on the agenda.

From 'Officer': #Cazique

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The cover of 'Hemisphere' by Pete Green: a greyscale map of (half of) the northern hemisphere

Nothing is quite absolute and whether
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.

'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com

A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey

A snip at £6:
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I'd be very surprised if Matt Goodwin were to return (assuming he could find Denton on a map)

A really lovely collection

Turquoise banner for States of Independence 2026

Looking forward to the States of Independence one-day festival and book fair in Leicester on Sat 28 March. Stallholders inc. @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and Longbarrow Press, and there's a varied programme of talks and events (further details to follow). 10am-4pm, all welcome, admission free.

Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press

Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.

'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
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Several copies of Peter Riley's collection 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' against an orange background.

Like holding a young child on a wall to see the sea
for the first time, at dawn, the world’s thought-task,
vast, and simple, and irreversible.

'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Line Drawing/Grid/Text(ile), Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

Allister Heath: Britain is being held hostage by a radical Longbarrow Press cult

If AI is an all-encompassing movement to rationalise and dehumanise life, and poetry necessarily asserts the human and the beyond-rational, then poetry is the only viable response to the philosophical implications of AI

Obviously I would say this because I'm a poet, but y'know... this is our moment