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Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers online and through the annual gathering, Fri 24 & Sat 25 October 2025.

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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
February 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Available here: www.cbeditions.com/mcguinness.h...
padrig.bsky.social Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 4d
Delighted and extremely grateful for this kind review of Ghost Stations @cbeditions.bsky.social by Jonathan Keates in this month's @litreview.bsky.social . I'd like to stay on this train, thank you.
February 5, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
Certainly still delighted to have designed and produced this edition of the book for the excellent Laurence Sterne Trust.
January 21, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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confingopublishing.bsky.social
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
January 22, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
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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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’.
January 27, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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/
Sunrise on the River Ouse at Swinefleet, East Riding of Yorkshire, Sunday January 2026. Full moon near the horizon.
January 7, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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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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Brian Lewis on his memoir 'Last Collection' alongside Chris Jones on his book of poems Little Piece of Harm | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
Here, in the first of two episodes, I take a slightly different approach and talk to Brian Lewis about his essay/memoir ‘Last Collection’ alongside my own book of poetry Little Piece of Harm. On Frida...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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confingopublishing.bsky.social
‘“The Hands” moves from the slightly mysterious to the downright sinister’ - Anna Aslanyan reviews Paris Fantastique by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for @thetls.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
Still ringing.
uniformbooks.bsky.social Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · Dec 19
Outside line.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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hazardpressuk.bsky.social
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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Image of the book cover featuring the title in large white letters on a dark blue background
December 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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rachelartsmith.bsky.social
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
December 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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cbeditions.bsky.social
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.
December 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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).
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Dec 8
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:
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'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 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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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 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.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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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 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.
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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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 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.
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
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.
December 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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scratchbooks.bsky.social
Auspicious signs
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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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Three copies of Steve Ely's collection 'Eely' arranged against an orange background.
December 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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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Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 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

Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
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Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
"The exhibition documents a small section of the archival ephemera of British bookseller John Lyle (1932–2002)."
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andrewhodgson.bsky.social Andrew Hodgson @andrewhodgson.bsky.social · Dec 9
I have an exhibition coming up on what happened to the Surrealist Group in England following the death of André Breton in 1966
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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scratchbooks.bsky.social
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!

www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM