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📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Printmaking Lead.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · Mar 4
Hello Bluesky, I'll be posting artists' books news and info: the Book Arts Newsletter; Bristol Artist's Book Event, World Book Night, Blue Notebook journal, all inks in bio.
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Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara documented the bond between her grandmother, Misao and her beloved cat Fukumaru #WomensArt #Autumn
Photograph featuring an elderly Japanese woman sitting on a crate in a garden setting facing forwards holding an orange, next to her to the left is a white cat facing forwards sitting in a basket filled with oranges on a small trolly, behind is an orange tree
November 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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We have a new display in the library vitrines of Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone by @jacbat.bsky.social & @jessyrandall.bsky.social
Find out more about their project at:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/ff23libraries/
Pics by Shaun Oaten at Bower Ashton Library.
Detail of the cover of a zine -Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone A vitrine displaying pages from the zine Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries – When All the Books Are Gone
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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This has been our #CelebrityTraitors display. We've been Orkney Library.

Until next time. Stay Faithful. 🗡
A display of books by or about some of the celebrities who appeared in Celebrity Traitors
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Huge thanks to @tothemadpoets.bsky.social for an inspirational talk this week as part of his exhibition which was on show in our library. ‘How to read a book’ is on until 14th March 2026 at @porticolibrary.bsky.social Thank you so much Stephen, we all have many ideas bubbling away from your talk!
Stephen Emmerson reading from How to read a book. Stephen Emmerson reading from How to read a book.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming, and the Coming Revolution. To take place 20 February 2026 at Keynes Library, Birkbeck. CFP Deadline: 19 December tinyurl.com/poetryondrugs
Poster for conference CFP reading "Poetry on Drugs: Language, Dreaming, and the Coming Revolution" "Event Date: 20 February 2026 / Venue: Keynes Library, Birkbeck / CFP Deadline: 19 December / CFP: https://tinyurl.com/poetryondrugs." In the middle is a psychedelic image with repeating circle and tree motifs.
November 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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January! The Drogheda Zine Fair is back. Information at
www.droichead.com/show-detail/...
Flyer for the Drogheda Zine Fair, Saturday 24 January 2026, 11-5 at the Droichead Arts Center, Stockwell St., Drogheda. Sponsors include the Arts Council, the Droichead Arts Centre, and Louth County Council. The flyer is on yellow paper and includes drawings of a pencil, scissors, tape, pencil shavings, and a pencil sharpener.
October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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World Book Night 2026 – The Mountains Are Calling…
WBN United Artists invite you to respond to a poem, text or book about mountains for an exhibition and mail art swap.
Deadline 3rd March 2026 - Early submissions very welcome. Find out more about WBN and download the full brief:
shorturl.at/Ti5lt
Four images of mountains from old postcards.
November 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Possibly the best small press fair promo statement ever:
dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social · 20d
our small press fair brings all the depictions of Englishmen by 19th-century Japanese printmakers to the yard. and they're like, wow, I really enjoy browsing books from a range of very small, small, independent, underground, and other presses based on the island of Ireland and from abroad.
two men sit at a breakfast table in a 19th-century print by Utagawa Yoshitora (Metropolitan Museum's Open Access collection). One is reading a book. Speech balloons have been applied. One says, "I got this book at the first annual DUBLIN SMALL PRESS FAIR. November 28 + 29, 2025. Pearse St Library. free + open to all." The other says, "how delightful. I shall attend". At the lower edge is information about the event's sponsors—Dublin City Council, Dublin UNSECO City of Literature, Poetry Ireland, Publishing Ireland, and Skein Press. The URL (dublinsmallpressfair.com) appears at the right edge.
November 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The first Wanstead Independent Book Fair - 1st November 2025 at Wanstead Library, E11 2RQ, UK. Organised by Julian Walker. 20+ tables of book artists, paper sculptors, zine makers, small presses, local authors, bespoke poets, concrete poets, readings, printing and more.
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A poster for the Wanstead Independent Book Fair - 1st November 2025 at Wanstead Library, E11 2RQ, UK
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Experience poetry like never before.

📅 11 Nov | 🕔 5–7 pm | 📍 Senate House Library

An evening of live performance + experimental poetics celebrating Spineless Wonders.

🎟️ Free – register now!

www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...
October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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masterthiefpress.bsky.social
The exhibition of Peter Lyssiotis' decades of practice in the art of the book will run for twelve months until June 2026 at the Matheson Library, Monash University. The works on display comprise the artist's works held in the Monash Archives.

www.monash.edu/library/libr...
Silence is no Refuge
A Monash University Library exhibition celebrating the work of “master thief” and artist Peter Lyssiotis. Explore his 40-year career through hand-crafted artists’ books and a rich personal archive to ...
www.monash.edu
October 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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From Karen Guancione: The 31st Annual New Jersey Book Arts Symposium 'We the People' will be held at Archibald S. Alexander Library Rutgers, New Jersey, USA. Symposium & Exhibition: Friday 7th November 9:30 am - 5:00 pm. Free and open to all. Info at:
www.libraries.rutgers.edu/news/31st-an...
mage: Karen Guancione, Woven Stories, 2025, series of 20, mixed media, cut and woven protest signs, hand painted paper, packaging, antique sheet music, plastic, grommets, shipping tags and metal, 14 ½ inches x 9 ¾ inches.
October 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Join us on Tues 4th November 12.45 – 1.15 GMT for a free talk with artist @tothemadpoets.bsky.social as part of his exhibition How to read a book. Special Collections area of Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. No booking needed just turn up, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
Text from the installation by Stephen Emmerson for his exhibition 'How to read a book'.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 169, November 2025 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/
63 pages of Exhibitions, Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops, Opportunities, Events, New Artists' Publications, Reports & Stop Press! Cover: Boabooks, Geneva, Switzerland.
Cover page photo of Boabooks store in Geneva, Switzerland and front page of the Book Arts Newsletter No 169, November 2025 with exhibition info.
October 27, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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If you missed us at the Small Publishers Fair, you can order our titles direct from us here - longbarrowpress.com/current-publ... - and receive a free copy of the new 'Inventory' pamphlet with orders over £8.
Three copies of 'Inventory', a 16-page A6 format booklet.
October 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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hazardpressuk.bsky.social
Very happy that copies of KATE POEM ZINE BOOK and 9 GOLDEN RULES: Reading Poetry in Public will soon be on the shelves of the National Poetry Library! They’re both also available on my stall at today’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social running at @conwayhall.bsky.social until 7pm!
Photo of copies of the two books on the stall
October 25, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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All set up and ready for two days at @smallpublishers.bsky.social! See you at @conwayhall.bsky.social today and tomorrow Saturday 25 October! Artists’ Books! Books! Poetry!
Photo of the stall covered with a red cloth with books displayed on top
October 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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smallpublishers.bsky.social
Today! At Conway Hall from 11am
smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 18d
It's almost here! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.

Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)

Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Print copies of the 2025 Small Publishers Fair programme.
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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And if you are near to Munich then don't miss at superBOOKS this weekend. This weekend around 70 national and international artists, designers, publishers, and institutions, including universities, present their latest productions at Haus der Kunst.
www.hausderkunst.de/en/eintauche...
A poster for the superBOOKS event and fair in Munich this weekend featuring Uta Schneider and Ulrike Stoltz, at Haus der Kunst.
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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smallpublishers.bsky.social
One day to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions, and now updated with table plan.
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/get-the-most...
Table plan for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall.
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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smallpublishers.bsky.social
The Caseroom Press is a publishing collective that applies systems, cataloguing, and data collection in their work using a combination of found surfaces, relief and screen print, letterpress, hand and machine stitch, typewriter and copy machine. Find them at #smallpublishersfair25 Fri 24/ Sat 25 Oct
October 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Typographer and publisher Robin Kinross, whose critical standards are always high, and rightly so, writes about the design and production of Fitzcarraldo's books.
October 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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NEWS: the first @royalholloway.bsky.social Small Press Takeover of the 2025/26 academic year will be on Tuesday 21st October featuring writers published by the incredible @ghostcitypress.bsky.social 👻 Join us in Bloomsbury to hear from Brittany Thomas, Dani Salvadori, and Ellen Warren 🧡
A BLOOMSBURY EVENT SERIES OF LAUNCHES, SHOWCASES, AND EXPERIMENTS IN INDEPENDENT PRESS BRITTANY THOMAS DANI SALVADORI ELLEN WARREN MORE INFORMATION: BRIONY.HUGHES@RHUL.AC.UK 21.10.2025 / 6.30 PM STEWART HOUSE ROOM 1 (VIA SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY)
October 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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A 🧵 of the #smallpublishersfair25 readings & talks on both days of the Fair. Friday's readings are introduced by @tyrrellknot.bsky.social and take place in The Green Room (2pm-5pm).

2pm: Helen Douglas (Weproductions)
2.30pm: Charlotte Northall (Pilot Press)
3.00pm: John Bevis (Uniformbooks)

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Readings at the Small Publishers Fair: The Green Room Friday 24 October Introduced by poet Simon Tyrrell 2.00pm—Weproductions Helen Douglas on MEETING POINT Within the Lewisian made with Jake Harvey. 2.30pm—Pilot Press Launch of Practicing Dying by Charlotte Northall, a memoir on addiction and capitalism. 3.00pm—Uniformbooks John Bevis on his book A Surrey Naturalist. 3.30pm—Fly on the Wall Press Readings: Amy Lilwall from The Water that May Come and John Ironmonger from The Wager and the Bear. 4.00pm—Negative Press London Launch of everything is so very much connected by Roelof Bakker and Sarah Bodman with Rachel Smith and Declan Wiffen. 4.30pm—The New Menard Press Launch of Shira Wolfe’s Jugoslovenska Kinoteka. Wolfe reads from this bilingual (English/Serbian) poetry collection, translated with Marko Mladenovic. SPECIAL EVENT: REMEMBERING MARK PAWSON 1965-2025 Small Publishers Fair will remember and celebrate Mark Pawson with a special event on the Friday afternoon. 5.30 to 7pm—Badge making Mark’s friend, artist and printmaker Xtina Lamb, will lead a badge-making session in Mark’s name. Come and make a badge!
October 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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The Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️
The underpass of a stone bridge A campsite in the woods The group walking up a trail, lined with stones quarried from the site 100 years ago A shot of our library field field guide
October 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM