Longbarrow Press

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
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Dan had the dorm room next to mine at Eton, so we were able to cut through some of the red tape

Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of 'The Landfill Murders' by Dan Grift

Treat yourself and follow Brian on this compelling meditative autumnal journey through the edgelands.

Good grief

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
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The first Two-Way Poetry podcast of Series Three is out. I talk to Al McClimens about time and place in Simon Armitage’s ‘Evening’ and his own poem ‘Grand National’ twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/al-mcclime...

see you there!

From 'rotatory', 1993. 24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position.

An epic thread,but one worthy of space and time, of grief and thought, of love and landscape. Walking as exploration of place and self of belonging and exclusion.

An utter joy

Great for pre-internet newspaper archives, among other things

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.

In the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books this month. Les Fugitives has been preparing a reprint of Erica Van Horn’s We Still Have the Telephone for this month’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair.

“Things have changed on the ground.”

@longbarrowpress.bsky.social walking in memory of memory.

So much here.

Forget about Netflix. Scroll this route for proper descriptive drama…

His text to me, on making it to Goole train station with 6 minutes to spare, was 'made it. mother of god'.

May it be fast, brutal, and irreversible

Home Bargains, B&M Stores, seventy miles of useless aisles

Read the whole thread - stunning photos and a walk with a disturbing piece of recent history which has resulted in place-making and memorial.

Invitation for the Small Publishers Fair - listing all exhibitors and the featured exhibition by Erica Van Horn.

Cover Image of the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 produced by Tom Sowden prompting DALL·E to design it.

Impact Press will be at the Small Publishers Fair soon, 24-25 October at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. @smallpublishers.bsky.social
We’ll be selling the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 at a special price of £10 come along and get a copy!
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Two years since Wilko collapsed, two years since I was last able to walk into a shop and select and purchase a printer cartridge, a light bulb of the correct wattage, voltage and diameter, or decent adhesive tape

A wonderful thread and walk

Do come along and meet all the lovely publishers, including us, @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social all the way from Manchester to London for two days. It's FREE and there are lots of books. What more could you want? Please SHARE! 📚💙 #BookSky

The heart sinks. The day is wasted

💚 heart co-editing intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social. We'll be at Conway Hall in the heart of Bloomsbury for this year's amazing @smallpublishers.bsky.social on the 24 & 25 October. Come say hello!

This is a very beautiful thread. The feeling of other minds.

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall later this month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

"I'd just walked past the alcoholics' dry-out house
The lawn was littered with cans of Barbican"

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.

From 'Letterpress: New & material poems' by Simon Cutts, Uniformbooks, 2013. uniformbooks.co.uk/letterpress.php
#NationalPoetryDay

Thank you for going the distance with the thread! It means a lot.