Chris Jones
@cwjoneschris.bsky.social
Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast:
https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
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Looking forward, as always, to teaching for The Poetry Business on January 5th:
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Buy tickets – Online Workshop: “Akemashite Omedetou! New Year Haiku & more” with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana – Zoom
Online Workshop: “Akemashite Omedetou! New Year Haiku & more” with Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana – Zoom, Mon 5 Jan 2026 - Akemashite Omedetou!
New Year Haiku & more
This Japan-themed workshop will ge...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Looking forward, as always, to teaching for The Poetry Business on January 5th:
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buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
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Another one from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - this time To the End of the Land by Martin Heslop, Helen Tookey.
What a mood this one is. Another amazing poetry collection. It feels like the west coast - of Denmark, of Scotland, of wild and unnamed places... 1000/10
What a mood this one is. Another amazing poetry collection. It feels like the west coast - of Denmark, of Scotland, of wild and unnamed places... 1000/10
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Another one from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - this time To the End of the Land by Martin Heslop, Helen Tookey.
What a mood this one is. Another amazing poetry collection. It feels like the west coast - of Denmark, of Scotland, of wild and unnamed places... 1000/10
What a mood this one is. Another amazing poetry collection. It feels like the west coast - of Denmark, of Scotland, of wild and unnamed places... 1000/10
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Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Steve Ely's 'Eely', Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour', and Rob Hindle's 'Sapo'. You can order them here:
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November 17, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Steve Ely's 'Eely', Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour', and Rob Hindle's 'Sapo'. You can order them here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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"A book is a record of processes: textual, temporal, material. It is made out of the world and it makes its own world and it makes its way through the world. Each of these worlds is imperfect. Yet the possible book shows me that another world is possible."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory
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July 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"A book is a record of processes: textual, temporal, material. It is made out of the world and it makes its own world and it makes its way through the world. Each of these worlds is imperfect. Yet the possible book shows me that another world is possible."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory
In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Helen Angell about T S Eliot’s early poem ‘Preludes’ and how this influenced her approach to writing ‘Mancunian Way’. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @drjomaher.bsky.social
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Helen Angell on T S Eliot's poem 'Preludes' and on her own poem 'Mancunian Way' | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
In this episode, I talk to Helen Angell about T S Eliot's early poem 'Preludes', and her own architecturally-inspired poem 'Mancunian Way.'
Helen discusses where and when she first encountered Eliot's...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:39 AM
In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Helen Angell about T S Eliot’s early poem ‘Preludes’ and how this influenced her approach to writing ‘Mancunian Way’. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @drjomaher.bsky.social
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We’re delighted that the BBC has featured a positive article about our recent swift brick project.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We’re delighted that the BBC has featured a positive article about our recent swift brick project.
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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I loved this too - it's so good!!
I’ve really enjoyed Hemisphere, by @petegreensolo.com (published by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social ) - it’s a set of prose poems describing imaginary travels, but in the process ruminating on all kinds of things. Moving, in more than one sense!
October 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I loved this too - it's so good!!
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"No hierarchies. No roller banners. A conversation in the heart of the city."
Translocal distribution: the latest number of The Minute Review, edited by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social (with a focus on the 2024 @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair) and distributed by him at the 2025 Fair.
Translocal distribution: the latest number of The Minute Review, edited by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social (with a focus on the 2024 @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair) and distributed by him at the 2025 Fair.
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"No hierarchies. No roller banners. A conversation in the heart of the city."
Translocal distribution: the latest number of The Minute Review, edited by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social (with a focus on the 2024 @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair) and distributed by him at the 2025 Fair.
Translocal distribution: the latest number of The Minute Review, edited by @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social (with a focus on the 2024 @smallpublishers.bsky.social Fair) and distributed by him at the 2025 Fair.
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As the light fell, families put pumpkins out
on doorsteps and in their windows;
light would judder through carved eyes
and grimaces into the dingy lanes.
The thickening night was full of cackles
and screeches, innocent and terrible.
'The Grail Roads'
Rob Hindle
grailroads.wordpress.com
on doorsteps and in their windows;
light would judder through carved eyes
and grimaces into the dingy lanes.
The thickening night was full of cackles
and screeches, innocent and terrible.
'The Grail Roads'
Rob Hindle
grailroads.wordpress.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
As the light fell, families put pumpkins out
on doorsteps and in their windows;
light would judder through carved eyes
and grimaces into the dingy lanes.
The thickening night was full of cackles
and screeches, innocent and terrible.
'The Grail Roads'
Rob Hindle
grailroads.wordpress.com
on doorsteps and in their windows;
light would judder through carved eyes
and grimaces into the dingy lanes.
The thickening night was full of cackles
and screeches, innocent and terrible.
'The Grail Roads'
Rob Hindle
grailroads.wordpress.com
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'English Coloured Papers'
Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett
After some years copies will be available again at the Small Publishers Fair.
Uniformbooks, Table 3, Small Publishers Fair
Conway Hall, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October
#supportsmallpublishers #smallpublishersfair2025
Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett
After some years copies will be available again at the Small Publishers Fair.
Uniformbooks, Table 3, Small Publishers Fair
Conway Hall, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October
#supportsmallpublishers #smallpublishersfair2025
October 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
'English Coloured Papers'
Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett
After some years copies will be available again at the Small Publishers Fair.
Uniformbooks, Table 3, Small Publishers Fair
Conway Hall, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October
#supportsmallpublishers #smallpublishersfair2025
Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett
After some years copies will be available again at the Small Publishers Fair.
Uniformbooks, Table 3, Small Publishers Fair
Conway Hall, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October
#supportsmallpublishers #smallpublishersfair2025
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Here again today, 11am-7pm
A rare publisher’s-eye view from the other side of the Longbarrow stall at @smallpublishers.bsky.social. At Conway Hall til 7pm.
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Here again today, 11am-7pm
Gerard Manley Hopkins as he is speaking through the Pendle witches…Geraldine Monk on Hopkins’ poem ‘The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo’ and her own poem ‘Chattox Sings’
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
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The Two-Way Poetry Podcast | Chris Jones
In each episode Chris Jones invites a poet to introduce a poem by an author who has influenced his, her or their own approach to writing. The poet discusses the importance of this work, and goes on t...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Gerard Manley Hopkins as he is speaking through the Pendle witches…Geraldine Monk on Hopkins’ poem ‘The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo’ and her own poem ‘Chattox Sings’
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
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Had such a lot of fun talking to Chris. Looking forward to hearing your chats with other guests on your new series, Chris!
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
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
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The Two-Way Poetry Podcast | Chris Jones
In each episode Chris Jones invites a poet to introduce a poem by an author who has influenced his, her or their own approach to writing. The poet discusses the importance of this work, and goes on t...
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Had such a lot of fun talking to Chris. Looking forward to hearing your chats with other guests on your new series, Chris!
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
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
The Two-Way Poetry Podcast | Chris Jones
In each episode Chris Jones invites a poet to introduce a poem by an author who has influenced his, her or their own approach to writing. The poet discusses the importance of this work, and goes on t...
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
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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.
A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.
An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
October 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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.
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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.
October 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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.
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Annie Fisher reviews 'Elemental' by Cliff Forshaw (Templar Poetry, 2025)
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Annie Fisher reviews 'Elemental' by Cliff Forshaw (Templar Poetry, 2025)
The Friday Poem on 12th September 2025
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September 12, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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...
Al McClimens on Simon Armitage's poem 'Evening' and his own poem 'Grand National' | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
In this episode, I talk to Al McClimens about Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Evening’ and his own poem ‘Grand National’.
We discuss ideas of place and time in Armitage's 'views' of Marsden, the village where ...
twowaypoetry.podbean.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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...
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Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - #Sheffield10K with a fridge, gall season & hope for #SheffieldSwifts - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 28th Sept 2025
10k with a fridge. Peer steers. Leaf life.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Today’s post for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - #Sheffield10K with a fridge, gall season & hope for #SheffieldSwifts - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
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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Swift Diaries
Leave-Taking
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September 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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A great evening of poetry last night in Southport with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @helentookey.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com and Fay Musselwhite
September 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
A great evening of poetry last night in Southport with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @helentookey.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com and Fay Musselwhite
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Longbarrow Press reminds you what it's all about. Wonderful account here from editor Brian Lewis of the Sheffield imprint's first 19 years.
"The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory
September 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Longbarrow Press reminds you what it's all about. Wonderful account here from editor Brian Lewis of the Sheffield imprint's first 19 years.
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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.
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.
September 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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.
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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.
September 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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.