Chris Jones

The third series of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast is now available - the first programme just out featuring Al McClimens. Other guests include @thehalt.bsky.social @corrintachibana.bsky.social Geraldine Monk, Cliff Forshaw, Steve Sawyer and Helen Angell

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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.

Hurrah! The launch that Clare writes about here was a joyous day full of deep care and kinship. I feel so grateful to have been a tiny part of it.

Annie Fisher reviews 'Elemental' by Cliff Forshaw (Templar Poetry, 2025) The Friday Poem on 12th September 2025

Annie Fisher reviews 'Elemental' by Cliff Forshaw (Templar Poetry, 2025)
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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...

Tony Harrison, poet and dramatist, dies aged 88 Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work in theatre, opera, film and TV but wanted to be thought of as a poet above all

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Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 28th Sept 2025 10k with a fridge. Peer steers. Leaf life.

Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - #Sheffield10K with a fridge, gall season & hope for #SheffieldSwifts - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

Swift Diaries Leave-Taking

My last post of the year on the swifts we share a house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social

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Poet Chris Jones

Poet Helen Tookey

Poet Pete Green

Poet Fay Musselwhite

A great evening of poetry last night in Southport with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @helentookey.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com and Fay Musselwhite

Longbarrow Press reminds you what it's all about. Wonderful account here from editor Brian Lewis of the Sheffield imprint's first 19 years.

This was a great event in a lovely venue. Home-made cakes and bicycles repaired! (That’s one for any Jennings fans out there.) Thanks to Mary, and Brian, and everyone who came along.

Chris Jones reading at Mecycle Cafe & Bike Workshop, Southport, 3 September 2025.

Fay Musselwhite reading at Mecycle Cafe & Bike Workshop, Southport, 3 September 2025.

Helen Tookey reading at Mecycle Cafe & Bike Workshop, Southport, 3 September 2025.

Pete Green reading at Mecycle Cafe & Bike Workshop, Southport, 3 September 2025.

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Longbarrow showcase at Mecycle in Southport last night. Very special thanks to @maryearnshaw.bsky.social for organising & hosting the event. Some excellent readings from @cwjoneschris.bsky.social Fay Musselwhite @helentookey.bsky.social & @petegreensolo.com.

Afterwards we even had some chips and a quick walk on the beach. A little midweek miracle. Thanks again @maryearnshaw.bsky.social for inviting us and @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for driving 💖

🧱 61 new Swift Bricks have landed in Sheffield!

This Sept we’ll install them in Woodhouse & Hackenthorpe, creating permanent nest sites.
Thanks to local residents like Daniel, for offering space for our Red Listed Swifts
🙏Sheffield City Council, DefraGovUK & HeritageFundUK
#SpeciesSurvivalFund

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The pic is part of a local project in Walkley celebrating the swifts with paintings on signal boxes. There’s also a fab mural by 2nd best street artist in the world @peachzz.bsky.social by the library! #Womensart #walkley #sheffield

It’s been a magnificent year for Swifts in Sheffield, beautifully captured by Chris #Swiftdiaries

Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 17th Aug 2025 How Sheffield could do better. Be still out there. Watching moths and the grammar of animacy. (Edited in a power cut - sorry about any mistakes or typos).

Today’s post: how #Sheffield could be more #TheOutdoorCity. And how to join the wild world. open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

Several copies of 'Meridian' by Nancy Gaffield: a blue book against an aquamarine background.

Several copies of 'Contraflow' by Fay Musselwhite.

Several copies of 'The Grail Roads' by Rob Hindle.

A recent stocktake has revealed a small number of ‘slightly scuffed’ copies of Longbarrow hardbacks, inc. collections by Nancy Gaffield, Rob Hindle, Fay Musselwhite, Matthew Clegg, and more. We’re offering these at half price (while stocks last). Order 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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Swift Diaries O for a beaker full of the warm South (John Keats, 'Ode to a Nightingale')

A final August post on the swifts we share a house with

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Yes, we are blessed, though I think they have left us now.

Swift Diaries The Blue Beyond

A near end of season look at the swifts we share a house with

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Swift Diaries Gallery Swifts

The first August post on the swifts we share our house with
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An almost pitch-dark photograph in which only the gantry of the M18, at its intersection with the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, is visible (above the motorway, and reflected on the water).

"Constellations brightening and softening. All the distances drawing close."

A night walk on the Dutch River
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The underside of the motorway bridge over the Dutch River, looking east towards Rawcliffe.

Dutch River, Goole to Rawcliffe Bridge, 26 July 2025. 6. Underneath the M18, looking east.

This is better than anything we've seen from anywhere on the English left in years

Swift Diaries Gallery Swifts

The first August post on the swifts we share our house with
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