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steveeely.bsky.social
Ideal stocking fillers. If you have big, rectangular stonkings.
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23h
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, in pamphlet and CD editions. Three copies of Steve Ely's collection 'Eely' arranged against an orange background.
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Dear Bluesky. I'm giving away two signed paperbacks of my novel Villager.

All you have to do to enter is share this extract from it & pop a reply below.

You also get a free map!

You might like the book if you like:
Ghosts
Social history
Folklore
Lost music
Rivers
Opinionated hills
Earth magic
Dave from Waterstones' review of Villager My dad's map of Underhill, the fictional moorland village in Villager
December 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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ccohanlon.bsky.social
I usually stay well offshore of anything 'literary' but I've drifted into shoal waters this month...as a guest editor of UK-based online journal, Burning House Press. 



Submissions are open for another five days.

burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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mjohnharrison.bsky.social
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elleisanisland.bsky.social Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Mar 23
this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite
Collection of paints, brushes and pots on an old table. In the corner a large very fluffy cat sprawls in decadence
October 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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whaleroadreview.bsky.social
Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn.

www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40
September 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Earlier today, I left the house for my ​usual neighbourhood stroll, only to find that the neighbourhood was no longer my neighbourhood. A dozen St George's flags and Union flags, cable-tied to lampposts on Middlewood Road, had appeared overnight. N​o-one asked for them. No-one wanted them. Yet here they are. There are no hotels in Hillsborough for idle, drunken thugs to shout at, or roundabouts to vandalise, so we get this instead, in the dead of night. And this craven UK government seems perfectly happy to allow this campaign of national(ist) intimidation to continue. And it is intimidation; it's intended as a provocation. It's poison (ask anyone who grew up in Northern Ireland in the 80s and 90s). It's disingenuous to suggest otherwise. The people actually fighting for their communities are the people clearing the streets of litter, maintaining the community gardens, supporting local businesses, and looking out for each other. I've written to my local councillor to ask for the flags to be taken down. (Some English - and Scottish - councils have been reluctant to do so in the face of threats and intimidation, which tells you everything you need to know about the motives and character of the people who are putting the flags up.)
September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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julianhoffman.bsky.social
“The die-offs we are witnessing in our forests this year may be nature’s final alarm bell – a desperate call for action, cooperation and adaptation in how we live and operate, at the local, regional and global levels."

www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/127...
Greece’s woodlands in the grips of a silent crisis | eKathimerini.com
Reports of dead trees started coming in from central and southern Greece this spring, with areas that have undergone artificial reforestation proving especially vulnerable.
www.ekathimerini.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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shanders.bsky.social
I cannot understand why I should be fine with environmental destruction, chatbot-induced psychosis, tanking literacy, theft of artists’ creative output, everyone around me getting stupider, wrong answers becoming just as prevalent/acceptable as right ones, and job losses, but somehow care about…this
August 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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ccohanlon.bsky.social
Flashback to our Mediterranean crossing: in darkness, 120 miles west of Sardinia, Wrack disturbs a sleeping whale. It slaps the sea, close by the hull, and rolls away, churning the low swell to a white froth while blowing a saline mist and noxious rotting fish smell.
August 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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ccohanlon.bsky.social
Nearly midnight and dolphins lurk in the darkness, alongside our boat. We hear them breathe but glimpse them only briefly in swirls of black water.
August 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
laurahemmington.bsky.social
A steal! Treat yourself or someone else to an incredible @longbarrowpress.bsky.social book
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Aug 15
Our ‘slightly scuffed’ sale of Longbarrow hardbacks continues, with collections by Angelina D'Roza, Mark Goodwin, Nancy Gaffield, Rob Hindle, Fay Musselwhite, Matthew Clegg, and Chris Jones at half price (while stocks last).

Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Five copies of Mark Goodwin's collection 'Rock as Gloss'. Angelina D'Roza's collection 'Envies the Birds'. The cover of 'The Footing', an anthology of walking-themed poems.
August 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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ursulakleguin.com
The Farthest Shore, the third Earthsea novel, was first published by Atheneum Books in 1972.
“But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.” —from The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
August 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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jrcarpenter.bsky.social
“I’m holding a piece of paper for goodness sakes, that’s not a terrorist act. A terrorist act is intentionally starving 2 million” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Police arrest 474 people at protest over Palestine Action ban in London
Number of arrests was highest recorded in relation to single operation in at least past decade, according to Met police
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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victorlavalle.bsky.social
My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu.

They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone.

Just look at these things!

They’re in bookstores now.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...
Three little goblins in green robes carry a baby basket that is filled with fire. A woman, in silhouette, crosses the plains, fleeing from a small white spooky home. There are pink trees around the home. A figure in a straight jacket sprouts sunflowers where their head should be. Multiple pink cats heads float below a manhole cover from a sewer. The manhole cover is sprouting ostrich feathers. The feathers all have a flouting eye in them. This is my weirdest book and the image is a great illustration of that weirdness.
August 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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julianhoffman.bsky.social
I wrote about the Prespa lakes region in northern Greece for @theguardian.com today. At the crossroads of three countries and my home for the past quarter of a century, it's a place that continues to surprise me with its wild beauty and rich human cultures.
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
Balkan bounty: the little-known corner of Greece now ripe for walkers and nature tourism
Mountains, butterflies, bears and pelicans are among the natural wonders in the stunning Prespa lakes region, which straddles three countries
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Steve Ely's symphonic poem 'Eely' has been shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI award for a poetry book with an ecological theme. The winner will be announced next week at the ASLE-UKI conference in Galway. Full shortlist here:
asle.org.uk/2025-asle-uk...

Further info:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Three copies of Steve Ely's 'Eely' against an orange background.
August 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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wck.org
After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)
World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause
After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...
wck.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
'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

One-day flash sale: pick up our walking-themed hardback anthology 'The Footing' for £10
thefooting.wordpress.com
The cover of the Longbarrow Press anthology 'The Footing', featuring abstract grey and white motifs
July 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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owenjones.bsky.social
The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.

It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.

No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
July 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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kymdeyn.bsky.social
I HANDMADE ANOTHER 70 BOOKS THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE GIVE THEM ATTENTION. I'm giving up being subtle. They're great books. I'm very tired.
thebraag.bsky.social The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · Jul 7
New micros by Molly Knox and V N Garmon are available at thebraag.co/shop 💚💀
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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eireannmor.bsky.social
So grateful for this clear-eyed and insistently cheerful (in the pragmatic, Jamesian sense) talk. Will return to it and share it online and off:
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Jul 5
"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process."

organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
organizingmythoughts.org
July 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM