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.
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'My mother grew sunflowers. I’d look out of the window and see them standing up straight against the back fence. She was always planting ahead of time. I understood, at last, what it meant, in the year of her death, to see the garden through its seasons.'
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October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
'My mother grew sunflowers. I’d look out of the window and see them standing up straight against the back fence. She was always planting ahead of time. I understood, at last, what it meant, in the year of her death, to see the garden through its seasons.'
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In the last episode of The Two-Way Poetry podcast I talk to @corrintachibana.bsky.social about the Japanese form the zuihitsu featuring Kimiko Hahn’s ‘Compass’ & an in-depth discussion on her own poem ‘Madam Gout’.
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana on Kimiko Hahn's poem 'Compass' and her own poem "Madam Gout'
In this episode, I talk to Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana about Kimiko Hahn’s poem ‘Compass’ and her own poem ‘Madam Gout’.
We discuss all things zuihitsu - reflecting on Kimiko Hahn’s own approach to the...
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December 23, 2025 at 8:35 AM
In the last episode of The Two-Way Poetry podcast I talk to @corrintachibana.bsky.social about the Japanese form the zuihitsu featuring Kimiko Hahn’s ‘Compass’ & an in-depth discussion on her own poem ‘Madam Gout’.
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com
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Sheffielders: surprise someone (yourself, even) with a hand-delivered book. Last day to order for Christmas delivery
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 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Sheffielders: surprise someone (yourself, even) with a hand-delivered book. Last day to order for Christmas delivery
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Winter mail #1: the excellent Abundant Number, courtesy of @eireannmor.bsky.social, a 'place of making', and remaking, and collaboration, and connection. The most interesting and hopeful print project I've encountered this year.
Further information: abundantnumber.ohbara.com
Further information: abundantnumber.ohbara.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Tomorrow the stars." Winter mail #3: 'You the Great Adventurer', a new collage zine by the ever-inspiring @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social. The journey of a life.
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Recommended, and available here: jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"Tomorrow the stars." Winter mail #3: 'You the Great Adventurer', a new collage zine by the ever-inspiring @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social. The journey of a life.
Recommended, and available here: jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
Recommended, and available here: jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
"I genuinely thought the pandemic would change the art world for the better." Winter mail #2: 'Obiter Dicta', the latest addition to @tonywhite.bsky.social's 'lo-tech, sustainable publishing platform' Piece of Paper Press.
Further information: pieceofpaperpress.com/about-popp/
Further information: pieceofpaperpress.com/about-popp/
December 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"I genuinely thought the pandemic would change the art world for the better." Winter mail #2: 'Obiter Dicta', the latest addition to @tonywhite.bsky.social's 'lo-tech, sustainable publishing platform' Piece of Paper Press.
Further information: pieceofpaperpress.com/about-popp/
Further information: pieceofpaperpress.com/about-popp/
Winter mail #1: the excellent Abundant Number, courtesy of @eireannmor.bsky.social, a 'place of making', and remaking, and collaboration, and connection. The most interesting and hopeful print project I've encountered this year.
Further information: abundantnumber.ohbara.com
Further information: abundantnumber.ohbara.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Winter mail #1: the excellent Abundant Number, courtesy of @eireannmor.bsky.social, a 'place of making', and remaking, and collaboration, and connection. The most interesting and hopeful print project I've encountered this year.
Further information: abundantnumber.ohbara.com
Further information: abundantnumber.ohbara.com
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I fretted my keys and looked back at the city –
skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
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skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
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December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I fretted my keys and looked back at the city –
skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
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skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
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A winter treat from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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
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
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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December 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A winter treat from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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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
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
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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December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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
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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"The Dutch River was a correction, an attempt to alleviate the flooding caused by the re-routing of the Don. It is still the Don, as it nears the Ouse, the Don turned brackish and tidal, it is more than the Don and less than the Don, all rivers and none."
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August 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
"The Dutch River was a correction, an attempt to alleviate the flooding caused by the re-routing of the Don. It is still the Don, as it nears the Ouse, the Don turned brackish and tidal, it is more than the Don and less than the Don, all rivers and none."
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"Tealights and wheat ears in the west chamber, dried flowers on the lower ledges. I have brought no offerings. I pace the length of the barrow, back and forth, and then, after a few minutes, stop at the threshold, lost in the play of light on stone."
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July 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Tealights and wheat ears in the west chamber, dried flowers on the lower ledges. I have brought no offerings. I pace the length of the barrow, back and forth, and then, after a few minutes, stop at the threshold, lost in the play of light on stone."
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"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
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SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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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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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.
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
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I fretted my keys and looked back at the city –
skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
westnortheast.wordpress.com/poems/the-la...
skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
westnortheast.wordpress.com/poems/the-la...
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I fretted my keys and looked back at the city –
skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
westnortheast.wordpress.com/poems/the-la...
skylights angled to catch wafers of falling snow.
'The Last Workday Before Christmas', Matthew Clegg
westnortheast.wordpress.com/poems/the-la...
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A great evening. Thanks to all who came. The work is a nod to both Sophie Delauney's 'Prose on the Trans-Siberian Express' and Malevich's 34 Drawings, natch.
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 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A great evening. Thanks to all who came. The work is a nod to both Sophie Delauney's 'Prose on the Trans-Siberian Express' and Malevich's 34 Drawings, natch.
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Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Readers and bookshops: please boycott any publisher that replaces literary translators with the non-reading, uncultured, lying, manipulative plagiarism regurgitator.
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The greenest, most sustainable way to deliver, from a lovely, small, local #poetry publisher, and in time for Christmas, too! 💚👏🎄 #Sheffield
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 7:58 PM
The greenest, most sustainable way to deliver, from a lovely, small, local #poetry publisher, and in time for Christmas, too! 💚👏🎄 #Sheffield
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.
It's the most time of the year
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's the most time of the year
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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Late November, Ulleskelf station,
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
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...
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December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Late November, Ulleskelf station,
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
Late November, Ulleskelf station,
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
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...
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
December 17, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Late November, Ulleskelf station,
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
early evening darkness. Fog rolling
up the river from the German Sea.
The hiss of gas, a flickering candle...
Steve Ely
You can still order books from us, and we'll continue to send them out, though anything posted after today might arrive on the other side of Christmas. If you're in Sheffield, orders received between now and 23 Dec are guaranteed for Christmas, as these will be delivered by hand and on foot.
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 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
You can still order books from us, and we'll continue to send them out, though anything posted after today might arrive on the other side of Christmas. If you're in Sheffield, orders received between now and 23 Dec are guaranteed for Christmas, as these will be delivered by hand and on foot.