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Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
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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 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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A new [non]uniformbook:

done
Colin Sackett

“Concatenation of lettering… an enchaining of individual letters which eliminates the discrete entity of the word they construct… aka scriptura continua”
—Michael Hampton

“riddledwithtypos”
—Anon.

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December 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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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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Visionary, urgent … truly extraordinary blendings of environmental and social history. It swept me along. Mark Wormald This spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection is one of the best long poems I have read. Adam Piette 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. Eely is available now in hardback from Longbarrow Press. Storegga Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled out on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales. Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats, armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup. Butterbumps booming from brackish phragmites, gorged on the bootlace bounty. Harriers quartering over. Campfire wisp from the holme’s relief in the pearl of the roseate dawn; boat slides from creek into tidal waters, trailing its fuchsia ripple. Paddles out under chatter of pinking terns, the flushed conflagrations of billionfold gyring flamingos. Steve Ely
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Rolling out the sound condenses over ice,
sea smoke trails the boat, twists of light letter the air,
a language holding low around the edges of the world,
empty and endless for the mind to lodge at zero.

Kelvin Corcoran
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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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The cover of the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology: the bare branches of winter trees, just visible in the darkness, with the title and contributors' names in white text.
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.

'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
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Several copies of Peter Riley's collection 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' against a red background.
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Ideal stocking fillers. If you have big, rectangular stonkings.
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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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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 3:37 PM
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need an idea for a present - see below :-)
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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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'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, in pamphlet and CD editions.
December 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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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Visionary, urgent … truly extraordinary blendings of environmental and social history. It swept me along. Mark Wormald This spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection is one of the best long poems I have read. Adam Piette 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. Eely is available now in hardback from Longbarrow Press. Storegga Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled out on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales. Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats, armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup. Butterbumps booming from brackish phragmites, gorged on the bootlace bounty. Harriers quartering over. Campfire wisp from the holme’s relief in the pearl of the roseate dawn; boat slides from creek into tidal waters, trailing its fuchsia ripple. Paddles out under chatter of pinking terns, the flushed conflagrations of billionfold gyring flamingos. Steve Ely
December 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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John Bevis's definitive study concerns itself with the lives and partnership of the Keartons, especially their role in the history of nature photography; their attitudes to and interaction with nature; and the status of invention in their work. uniformbooks.co.uk/thekeartons.php
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Not a house in sight. Stripped, wind-swept
moorland, gritstone walls in bad repair, snow
quite likely. Here we wait, as if waiting
for the return of truthful politics.

'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
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November 21, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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This is so beautiful.
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In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.

'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Several copies of Peter Riley's collection 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' against a red background.
December 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Rolling out the sound condenses over ice,
sea smoke trails the boat, twists of light letter the air,
a language holding low around the edges of the world,
empty and endless for the mind to lodge at zero.

Kelvin Corcoran
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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.
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
The cover of the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology: the bare branches of winter trees, just visible in the darkness, with the title and contributors' names in white text.
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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:
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Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing outward, against a dark background.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Visionary, urgent… truly extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald
This spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection is one of the best long poems I have read. - Adam Piette
One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok

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Three copies of 'Eely', Steve Ely's 'symphonic poem', arranged against an orange background.
January 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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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
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'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza
November 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Had a great time in here this week. And I'm excited to read my copy of 'Eely' by Steve Ely - an epic poem that references, amongst other things, the North Atlantic Gyre, the head of mercian King Penda, Cornelius Vermuyden, and the 1974 FA Cup Final.
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Time flies when you're doing all sorts of things you weren't planning to.

Later than planned, more poetry! On the top shelf you can see new arrivals from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - The Footing collection, Steve Ely, Mark Goodwin, Angelina D'Roza and others. Shelves need some re-order... 1/2
Poetry books! Three shelves of bookcase in view with various titles facing forward. Books from Steve Ely, Mark Goodin, Angelina D'Roza along with the collection The Footing. Simon Armitage, Tom Paulin, Salena Godden, Paul Brookes, Andrew Webb. Roger McGough (a distant relative of mine!). Plus a couple of different titles, The Door to Door Poet, A History of England in 25 Poems.
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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I understand those sharing that their grandparents migrated here with very little & the children and grandchildren ended up doing highly valued jobs. I also hope we don't just value one another according to income or job. There are so many other ways people contribute to society and communities.
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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"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
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Brian Lewis setting up displays at the first iteration of SHIP (Sheffield Independent Publishers), Winter Garden, Sheffield, July 2018. Photograph by Emma Bolland.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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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.
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
The cover of the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology: the bare branches of winter trees, just visible in the darkness, with the title and contributors' names in white text.
November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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books find their readers. two years after its publication, I’m delighted to see this insightful review of The Pleasure of the Coast by Canadian small press powerhouse @robmclennan.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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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' by Angelina D'Roza
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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"12.39pm. Lots of people are buying fresh fruit today, which is good to see, but not many people are buying books. At least books don’t spoil after a few days, with the exception of Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts."

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December 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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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).
A map of central Sheffield, with a ragged blue line marking the limits of the Longbarrow Press delivery area.
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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"12.39pm. Lots of people are buying fresh fruit today, which is good to see, but not many people are buying books. At least books don’t spoil after a few days, with the exception of Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts."

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December 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM