Small Publishers Fair

INTO THE FOLD is coming up soon and I will be launching new things.
The Winchester School of Art Artists’ Book and Zine Fair is on Friday 6 March 2-6pm and Saturday 7 March 10-4pm
FREE ENTRY

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CB editions February newsletter - it's been a bad month - as archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/02/cbe-...

A stack of hardback copies of Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'

To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you.

'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza

£2 off until 20 February
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Very much looking forward to having a table for Essence Press at the Artists' Bookmarket this coming weekend 14-15 Feb @fruitmarket.bsky.social #ArtistsBookMarket
Do drop by to say hello if you are nearby... Over 60 book artist and publisher tables to browse.
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In 2016, Peter Mandelson tried to shut down Longbarrow Press after we declined to publish his debut poetry collection, 'Spin Cycle'. Only now can we reveal the full details of this wretched saga. 1/128

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Certainly still delighted to have designed and produced this edition of the book for the excellent Laurence Sterne Trust.

The 7th book in our series of collaborations between writers and artists will be published on 26 March. Five Different Stories About One Thing by @elizabethbaines.bsky.social features 5 brand new stories, with accompanying images by Laura Scott. Available to pre-order: www.confingopublishing.uk/shop

A minimalist book cover on a pale beige background. In the upper left, the title reads ‘Sonogram {Soundwriting}’ in burnt orange serif text, with the author name ‘Emily Barker’ below in black. Running vertically down the right-hand side is an abstract, stacked composition resembling piano keys or layered bars, alternating in tones of black, cream, tan, and rust, with rough, textured edges suggesting sound waves or notation. At the lower left, small muted gold text reads ‘Broken Sleep Books’.

Sonogram {soundwriting} by Emily Barker is a structurally inventive collection in which lyric, score, setlist, dream record and field note braid into a poetics of voice under pressure. @emilybarkerhalo.bsky.social

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Sunrise on the River Ouse at Swinefleet, East Riding of Yorkshire, Sunday January 2026. Full moon near the horizon.

A walk from Thorne to Goole, via the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Keadby Wind Farm, the River Trent, the River Ouse and the Dutch River, 9.25pm Saturday 3 January to 9.25am Sunday 4 January.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm.

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‘“The Hands” moves from the slightly mysterious to the downright sinister’ - Anna Aslanyan reviews Paris Fantastique by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for @thetls.bsky.social

Still ringing.

Image of the book cover featuring the title in large white letters on a dark blue background

IT’S A CHRISTMAS COVER REVEAL!

I’m delighted to unveil the cover for my new poetry collection THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE!

The book will be published by @arachnepress.bsky.social in June 2026 (Pride Month) and is available for pre-order now.

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I am delighted to announce some news…

I am part of a shortlist of 5 artists working in Contemporary Book Art nominated for Women to Watch exhibition - see details here:
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The 5 shortlisted artists will show their work at Christie’s on 10-12 February 2026

2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.

Order by 2pm Wednesday 17 December for delivery in time for Christmas (within the UK). We can gift-wrap, add a handwritten note, and/or send to a different UK address (no extra charge).

A pale, speckled watercolour background with the title Drawer of Letters and the author name Ricky Monahan Brown in muted maroon at the top. Centre-right is a detailed botanical illustration of a lady’s slipper orchid: a bright yellow-green pouch with deep burgundy petals and a tall green stem and leaf. ‘Broken Sleep Books’ appears at the bottom in grey.

Drawer of Letters by Ricky Monahan Brown is a wry, elegiac and formally varied collection that navigates illness, grief, intimacy and reinvention with intelligence and bite. @rickyballboy.bsky.social

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A layered, abstract background in shades of pink, coral, and red, with brushy, overlapping textures. Large white silhouette motifs of pomegranates and branching leaves spread diagonally across the cover. The title Nifitsa appears at the top left in dark maroon serif type, with Eleni Philippou’s name directly beneath it. ‘Broken Sleep Books’ is printed in small black text near the bottom left.

Nifitsa by Eleni Philippou is a richly textured, bilingual meditation on love, departure and political inheritance, moving through the topographies of Greece with lyric intensity and intellectual depth.

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A minimalist book cover on a mustard-yellow background. The title Good Ground appears in large black serif capitals on the left, stacked over two lines. Beneath the title runs a thick, slightly angled black horizontal bar. The author’s name, Olly Todd, is set in white serif type on the right side of the cover. At the bottom centre, in small black text, is the publisher name, Broken Sleep Books.

Good Ground by Olly Todd is an expansive and sharply observed collection that blends memoir, cultural commentary, and lyric digression with a skater’s eye for momentum and terrain.

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A surprise seeing this popping up in Michael Caines’ column in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social following his discussion of this year’s *wordoftheyear* according to the usual authorities on the matter.

Auspicious signs

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

A "magnificent, serpentine modern epic ... this tour de force of language, imagination, varied technique, almost obsessive scholarship and huge emotional force must rank among the most outstanding of recent long British poems."

Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
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Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking.
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Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press

'It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.' - Billy Mills

Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
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"The exhibition documents a small section of the archival ephemera of British bookseller John Lyle (1932–2002)."
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Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale!
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!

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A set of books and a cd, as a set from the publisher Longbarrow Books, this time "To The End Of The Land"

In exchange for a very small sum of money @longbarrowpress.bsky.social have sent me another personalised pack of loveliness. Honestly, buy stuff off them- the work they publish is excellent and the quality of what they produce is first rate.

John Bevis's definitive study concerns itself with the lives and partnership of the Keartons, especially their role in the history of nature photography; their attitudes to and interaction with nature; and the status of invention in their work. uniformbooks.co.uk/thekeartons.php