Longbarrow Press
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
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Emma Bolland presents The Tower Dreams the Tower, a text image scroll-as-artist-book performance, at the University of Sheffield's Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Monday 15 December 2025.
December 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Emma Bolland presents The Tower Dreams the Tower, a text image scroll-as-artist-book performance, at the University of Sheffield's Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Monday 15 December 2025.
There's still time to order from us for Christmas delivery to Sheffield addresses (postcodes S1-S17), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered - by hand, on foot - on or before 24 December.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
There's still time to order from us for Christmas delivery to Sheffield addresses (postcodes S1-S17), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered - by hand, on foot - on or before 24 December.
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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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Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
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December 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
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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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December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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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The Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents The Paradise Collective, with readings from Kym Martindale, Emma Bolland, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Terry O’Connor, Ágnes Lehóczky.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents The Paradise Collective, with readings from Kym Martindale, Emma Bolland, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Terry O’Connor, Ágnes Lehóczky.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
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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December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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...
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"Eely is a symphony in four movements. This book-length poem by Steve Ely explores themes of fenland, power, conflict and biodiversity, and the lifecycle, ecology, epic migration, conservation status and enigma of the European eel."
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December 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"Eely is a symphony in four movements. This book-length poem by Steve Ely explores themes of fenland, power, conflict and biodiversity, and the lifecycle, ecology, epic migration, conservation status and enigma of the European eel."
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"A quietness falling on my small house. And the fuchsia that keeps on well into winter. I wasn’t there to cut it back, or to watch the settling of things."
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"A quietness falling on my small house. And the fuchsia that keeps on well into winter. I wasn’t there to cut it back, or to watch the settling of things."
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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"I said yes, it would be nice to have a space where people could sit and spend time with the books, to browse one book and then another, without an obligation to spend money, without a word spoken. We then realised that we were talking about a library."
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December 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"I said yes, it would be nice to have a space where people could sit and spend time with the books, to browse one book and then another, without an obligation to spend money, without a word spoken. We then realised that we were talking about a library."
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
"I recall a sense of writing from one ephemeral, collective platform (the pop-up shop) into another (Twitter), and that both were conducive to discovery and dialogue. Improvisations in an improvised space."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"I recall a sense of writing from one ephemeral, collective platform (the pop-up shop) into another (Twitter), and that both were conducive to discovery and dialogue. Improvisations in an improvised space."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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Earlier this year, we published 'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Apt for winter reading (and listening).
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
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You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Earlier this year, we published 'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Apt for winter reading (and listening).
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).
First published as a 'digital pamphlet' in 2023, and briefly available as a print edition in 2024, here's the free, downloadable PDF of our 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology, with poems apt for the year's end, and the year to come.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
First published as a 'digital pamphlet' in 2023, and briefly available as a print edition in 2024, here's the free, downloadable PDF of our 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology, with poems apt for the year's end, and the year to come.
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'Kepler believed the planets each had their own pitch, defined by their orbits’ nearest and furthest points from the sun. Mercury sings soprano, the earth alto, and so on. The maternal earth singing to its children.'
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
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'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
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November 29, 2025 at 1:09 PM
'Kepler believed the planets each had their own pitch, defined by their orbits’ nearest and furthest points from the sun. Mercury sings soprano, the earth alto, and so on. The maternal earth singing to its children.'
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Out of the city is a moon world, blue and white,
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
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frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Out of the city is a moon world, blue and white,
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
frost like gas on the fields and roads.
The land slips east into night, fen ditches
glowing like pig-iron. High in the thin air
the planes drum towards the coast.
Rob Hindle (from our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing')
thefooting.wordpress.com
Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
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I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
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pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
Top-tier promotional materials for the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, happening at Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November. All welcome, admission free. Hope to see some of you there.
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Top-tier promotional materials for the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social, happening at Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 November. All welcome, admission free. Hope to see some of you there.
'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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Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
'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)
thefooting.wordpress.com
Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."
'Landscapes of Power'
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'Landscapes of Power'
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November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"I thought of how, as a child, I’d used pylons to calculate distance & time, and how they seemed to anchor space. I thought of how the turbines resisted this, how unmeasurable they seemed, in a nightscape with few visual referents."
'Landscapes of Power'
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'Landscapes of Power'
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To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden.
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden.
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work
of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this.
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...