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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"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
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
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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:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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...
"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
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
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
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
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...
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...
'Few tickets left', if you're thinking of attending. Leeds Art Gallery, Sunday 7 December, 12pm-2.30pm.
I'm doing an in person workshop, 'Experimental Ekphrasis: audio guide as poetry', as part of the upcoming exhibition (feat. me and 7 other amazing artists) Another Way of Seeing. Booking essential. Limited places so only book if your'e gonna come: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiment...
Experimental Ekphrasis: audio guide as poetry workshop with Emma Bolland
Exploring poetic methods for communicating experiences of artworks in the exhibition Another Way of Seeing.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
'Few tickets left', if you're thinking of attending. Leeds Art Gallery, Sunday 7 December, 12pm-2.30pm.
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exciting book news — my new poetry collection, p a u s e, is now available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
exciting book news — my new poetry collection, p a u s e, is now available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
"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
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
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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).
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).
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These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap
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 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap
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Christmas just isn't Christmas without a hand-delivered volume from Yorkshire's finest purveyor of poetry.
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 3:01 PM
Christmas just isn't Christmas without a hand-delivered volume from Yorkshire's finest purveyor of poetry.
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"For Christmas, not just for life..."
Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk
Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...
Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk
Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"For Christmas, not just for life..."
Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk
Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...
Uniformbooks are available direct: uniformbooks.co.uk
Our books may also be ordered through any bookshop; and online, Blackwells, for example, carry all of our titles, and offer free delivery.
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/sea...
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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:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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...
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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Fabriano Paper
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Fabriano Paper
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The curated volumes from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social are things of true beauty, in content, look and feel. If you are after a treat for yourself or a dear one, these are top-tier ✨
📚 #BookSky #Poetry #Sheffield
📚 #BookSky #Poetry #Sheffield
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 6:18 PM
The curated volumes from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social are things of true beauty, in content, look and feel. If you are after a treat for yourself or a dear one, these are top-tier ✨
📚 #BookSky #Poetry #Sheffield
📚 #BookSky #Poetry #Sheffield
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).
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looking forward to descending into a little winter myself here
if you have someone who loves poetry (or someone who thinks they can't) and are looking for a present, may I suggest that PATTERN-BOOK might be for them
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if you have someone who loves poetry (or someone who thinks they can't) and are looking for a present, may I suggest that PATTERN-BOOK might be for them
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November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
looking forward to descending into a little winter myself here
if you have someone who loves poetry (or someone who thinks they can't) and are looking for a present, may I suggest that PATTERN-BOOK might be for them
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
if you have someone who loves poetry (or someone who thinks they can't) and are looking for a present, may I suggest that PATTERN-BOOK might be for them
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
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Just as I have smoothed this lump of jet
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
November 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Just as I have smoothed this lump of jet
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
by turning it over and over in my palm
so many times, until even that too has softened
- what good are speeches now.
My brother has gone, my sister gone
their wild inflections and smiles have gone
- all are gone.
Andrew Hirst, 'Frome XXIV' (2007)
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Shoutout to the incomparable @eireannmor.bsky.social, who journeyed across land and ocean in the middle of her semester to run a small press fair* with me this weekend 💫
*If we may be permitted to say so ourselves? - a bloody good small press fair
*If we may be permitted to say so ourselves? - a bloody good small press fair
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Shoutout to the incomparable @eireannmor.bsky.social, who journeyed across land and ocean in the middle of her semester to run a small press fair* with me this weekend 💫
*If we may be permitted to say so ourselves? - a bloody good small press fair
*If we may be permitted to say so ourselves? - a bloody good small press fair
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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
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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...
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...
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
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Poetry is a reader's art.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Poetry is a reader's art.
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Text(ile), Layered Print on Fabriano Paper (Sketch)
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Text(ile), Layered Print on Fabriano Paper (Sketch)
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“The book is still a viable way of communicating, provided one has taught oneself to find the book one needs to read.”—Guy Davenport
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“The book is still a viable way of communicating, provided one has taught oneself to find the book one needs to read.”—Guy Davenport
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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
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
January 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...