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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Our branch report into SHU's finances calls for a public enquiry into decision making at the university. There may be sector-wide challenges but at SHU one of the issues is governance. The report is here: ucuhallam.org
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Union calls for inquiry into Sheffield Hallam University finances
Sheffield Hallam University has invested in a new city centre campus and facilities in London.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Our branch report into SHU's finances calls for a public enquiry into decision making at the university. There may be sector-wide challenges but at SHU one of the issues is governance. The report is here: ucuhallam.org
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"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'
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/landscapes...
'Landscapes of Power'
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/landscapes...
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Loved this. Heartily recommend.
I lift a gift of conkers from September,
Wrapped up in Weston Park, and press and
Savour their cool smoothness and remember
Twenty autumns back...
Sheffield Almanac
@petegreensolo.com
Second edition
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Wrapped up in Weston Park, and press and
Savour their cool smoothness and remember
Twenty autumns back...
Sheffield Almanac
@petegreensolo.com
Second edition
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Loved this. Heartily recommend.
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B u y s o m e b o o k s
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
B u y s o m e b o o k s
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I totally recommend Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I totally recommend Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls
I talked to Cliff Forshaw about Arthur Rimbaud in the latest Two-Way Poetry Podcast. Translations and a version of Rimbaud’s life created by Forshaw in his book RE:VERB.
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Cliff Forshaw on Arthur Rimbaud, both in translation and as an influence on his own book-length sequence RE:VERB | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
In this episode, I discuss Arthur Rimbaud with Cliff Forshaw. We focus on Rimbaud's poem 'Vowels', translated by Cliff in his collection French Leave: Versions and Perversions, and Cliff's sequence RE...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I talked to Cliff Forshaw about Arthur Rimbaud in the latest Two-Way Poetry Podcast. Translations and a version of Rimbaud’s life created by Forshaw in his book RE:VERB.
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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Nothing is quite absolute and whether
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nothing is quite absolute and whether
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead
home. Move far enough in one direction,
landfall always rolls around again like
dawn.
'Hemisphere'
@petegreensolo.com
A short book
A long poem
An impossible journey
A snip at £6:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Pick a book, any book
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours. Recent hardbacks include Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour' (you'll also receive a free 'Inventory' pamphlet). Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Pick a book, any book
Catch up with the first three episodes of Season Three of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast here twowaypoetry.podbean.com
Featuring Al McClimens, Geraldine Monk and Helen Angell (seasons 1 and 2 are freely available)
Not far off 3 thousand downloads. Thanks for listening!
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Featuring Al McClimens, Geraldine Monk and Helen Angell (seasons 1 and 2 are freely available)
Not far off 3 thousand downloads. Thanks for listening!
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Catch up with the first three episodes of Season Three of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast here twowaypoetry.podbean.com
Featuring Al McClimens, Geraldine Monk and Helen Angell (seasons 1 and 2 are freely available)
Not far off 3 thousand downloads. Thanks for listening!
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Featuring Al McClimens, Geraldine Monk and Helen Angell (seasons 1 and 2 are freely available)
Not far off 3 thousand downloads. Thanks for listening!
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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This year’s Keats-Shelley Memorial Prizes are now open. Themes are dystopia / utopia
I’m glad to be judging the poetry prize again with Will Kemp. Closing date 2nd February and more info here
keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
I’m glad to be judging the poetry prize again with Will Kemp. Closing date 2nd February and more info here
keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
Keats-Shelley Prizes 2025-26
keats-shelley.org
September 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This year’s Keats-Shelley Memorial Prizes are now open. Themes are dystopia / utopia
I’m glad to be judging the poetry prize again with Will Kemp. Closing date 2nd February and more info here
keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
I’m glad to be judging the poetry prize again with Will Kemp. Closing date 2nd February and more info here
keats-shelley.org/prizes/keats...
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' . . . I smoked untipped till my lungs crackled
like Lucozade wrappers. After his Leeds reading,
I offered MacCaig a Silk Cut. “Thank you but no:
those are just a very expensive way of breathing.”
from 'Gaspers' in 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb'
Can't track down photographer
like Lucozade wrappers. After his Leeds reading,
I offered MacCaig a Silk Cut. “Thank you but no:
those are just a very expensive way of breathing.”
from 'Gaspers' in 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb'
Can't track down photographer
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
' . . . I smoked untipped till my lungs crackled
like Lucozade wrappers. After his Leeds reading,
I offered MacCaig a Silk Cut. “Thank you but no:
those are just a very expensive way of breathing.”
from 'Gaspers' in 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb'
Can't track down photographer
like Lucozade wrappers. After his Leeds reading,
I offered MacCaig a Silk Cut. “Thank you but no:
those are just a very expensive way of breathing.”
from 'Gaspers' in 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb'
Can't track down photographer
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Looking forward, as always, to teaching for The Poetry Business on January 5th:
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buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
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:
buytickets.at/thepoetrybus...
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:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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...
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
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory
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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twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/helen-ange...
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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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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
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 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
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 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