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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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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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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

I still stoop to pick up pence in the street (a necessary side hustle for a small publisher)

The pamphlet and CD editions of 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey: the blue-grey coastal edge of Nova Scotia, with dilapidated wooden lobster traps in the foreground, sea and distant land beyond, and white clouds and blue sky above.

I hold out my hands to show they are empty
that we’ve come for a while to the end of things

To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here:
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Untitled configuration (2025) by Emma Bolland: a display of pastel discs in the middle of a former Wilko, discs painted onto taped-up cardboard boxes, discs propped up on the rungs of ladders, discs scattered on the scuffed tiles.

"The last few years of apparent stasis and rapid, almost convulsive, change resulting in the creation of new spaces, the loss of old spaces, and the off-and-on of the meanwhile spaces in which many of Sheffield’s creative conversations happen."

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The Longbarrow Press stall, Conway Hall, Holborn, London, 24 October 2025.

"The inventory is whatever will fit into two rucksacks and two carrier bags. To be hauled, on foot, between tram, train and tube. City to city.​ One year to the next."

'The Exchange': some reflections on the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
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Loitering without intent: how taking aimless walks can create community and help you feel part of a city Walking together can be a powerful way to feel a sense of belonging in our environment.

"Opening up, sharing stories, making, holding, extending space walking together... is the opposite of planting a flag + claiming dominance" doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Out today @theconversation.com an intro to what I do + why @plutopress.bsky.social #TheFeministArtOfWalking #psychogeography #BookSky

The Internet of Things

'To speak of class, if we speak of it, is to qualify it, at times defensively, at others apologetically, because class is never as simple as class. You can't think with it for long before it starts to slip. You can't confer it on yourself. You can't confer it on others.'

('Local Distribution')

The pamphlet and CD editions of 'To the End of the Land' by Martin Heslop and Helen Tookey: the blue-grey coastal edge of Nova Scotia, with dilapidated wooden lobster traps in the foreground, sea and distant land beyond, and white clouds and blue sky above.

I hold out my hands to show they are empty
that we’ve come for a while to the end of things

To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

Vaguely reminiscent of John Tyndall's incompetent BNP promos circa 1992