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Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers online and through the annual gathering, Fri 24 & Sat 25 October 2025.

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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"We loan books from the local library, or we loan books through it from a library far away. But we also lend ourselves to the library — enlarging the commons and participating in the political project of making an informed society." @shannonmattern.bsky.social

placesjournal.org/article/extr...
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
Sample read with clomping about soundtrack.
uniformbooks.co.uk/done.php
davidcollard.bsky.social David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 16d
Many thanks to Colin Sackett of Uniform Books for my copy of 'done' which is an excellent example of 'scriptio continua' (or perhaps that should be 'scriptiocontinua' and youseewhatIdid there).
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Looking forward to bringing Longbarrow Press (and @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social) to the inaugural @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social at the end of the month, alongside 30+ excellent presses. Fri 28 Nov & Sat 29 Nov, Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2, all welcome, admission free. dublinsmallpressfair.com
Flyer for the Dublin Small Press Fair. https://dublinsmallpressfair.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob,
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.

'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
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Three copies of Steve Ely's collection 'Eely' arranged against an orange background.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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pamenarpress.bsky.social
Pamenar Reading on 6 Dec with Ágnes Lehóczky, Farid Matuk (visiting London🎉), Iris Colomb, and Yě Yě at 49 Great Ormond Street.

We’ll also be celebrating Iris’s and Ágnes’s new Pamenar books.
Doors 6pm, £5.

After the reading, we’ll gather upstairs to hang out. Bring your own drink and stay awhile.
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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lesfugitivespress.bsky.social
We were shocked and saddened to read that Rachel Cooke had died. She championed Michèle Roberts' work, and her take on French Cooking for One proposed the book to the bestsellers sphere. We remember her exemplary, fearless originality and generous spirit.
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Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
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November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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bullaunpress.bsky.social
We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.
Screenshot of the headline of an RTÉ Culture article about indie publishing in Ireland and the Dublin Small Press Fair, with central image of a male poet in a garden. A screenshot of an excerpt of an RTÉ article about indie publishing in Ireland. A picture of a hand holding a promotional postcard for the Dublin Small Press Fair against an autumnal suburban background.
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"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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Chimney at Didcot Power Station, photographed by Martyn J Bull.
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
If you missed the limited print edition of The Minute Review's special issue on the Small Publishers Fair, here's a free download:
drive.google.com/file/d/1lfb7...
Previous issues are also available here:
derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/
Here's a screenshot of my piece on the 2024 Fair.
25kg braced on my back. 10kg strapped to my chest. A plastic bag in each hand. One by one, the rucksacks and carriers are shucked to the floor of the foyer and I step into the hall, it is early, still, not yet 9.30am, the tables almost bare, only the names are visible, the artists and presses, the plan printed out on plain white paper. The rows recede and the signs recede and I turn back for the inventory. It's my seventh Small Publishers Fair. As the hall starts to fill with boxes and backpacks and trolleys, the aisles narrowing, the stalls taking shape, I look up from the hardwood floor, my bags half-stowed under the tablecloth, and adjust my perspective, my sense of scale. The fair has yet to open to the public and already it's busy. Stallholders squeeze through vanishing gaps or wait for a break in a queue. It's a major event in a minor space. Over the years, the fair has grown, and the hall is at capacity within an hour of the doors opening. On the one hand, the fair needs more space. On the other hand, the fair needs this space. Perhaps it's the architecture, or the ethos of its humanist founders, but Conway Hall has been critical to the development of the fair as an even-handed, open-minded gathering. Sixty stalls at street level. Uniform tables on a uniform plan. No hierarchies. No roller banners. A conversation in the heart of the city. A conversation that has been happening for years. In 2023, I was asked to host the book launches in The Library. It was a privilege, and I enjoyed the readings, but I found that I missed being at the stall, not from any concern for sales, it wasn't that, I missed the encounters that take place across a table, the new and familiar faces, the informality and surprise. The exchange. This year, I'm stepping into a vacancy, with a short reading in The Green Room, following the withdrawal of the advertised speaker. I read an excerpt from Local Distribution, an account of delivering books on foot in the city of Sheffield.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"Books are often slow to materialise, and can be months or years in the making. They can also arise from next to nothing and take shape in a matter of days. Small Publishers Fair is both an incentive and a deadline."

On the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange
The 2025 Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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uniformbooks.bsky.social
"There are 66 publishers at this year’s event. 66 arguments for the book and the idea of the book. 66 examples of what a small press can do."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17d
"The inventory is whatever will fit into two rucksacks and two carrier bags. To be hauled, on foot, between tram, train and tube. City to city.​ One year to the next."

'The Exchange': some reflections on the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
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The Longbarrow Press stall, Conway Hall, Holborn, London, 24 October 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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larapawson.bsky.social
I'm not going to lie: this is a reassuring post to read. Thanks Caroline, thanks @smallpublishers.bsky.social, thanks @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏼 😘😉
carolinefrmus.bsky.social Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 25d
Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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carolinefrmus.bsky.social
Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid
November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
"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.
The front page of The Minute Review (Vol 2 No 18, October 2025), with cover art by Egidija Čiricaitė.
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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davidcollard.bsky.social
My haul from this year's Small Publishers Fair.
October 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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intergraphiabooks.bsky.social
After a wonderful weekend at @smallpublishers.bsky.social
all our Series 4 pamphlets are now available to buy from our website, and for a limited time only, we'll pop you an added surprise in your package (UK only)—link in bio.
intergraphiabooks.bsky.social intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · Oct 28
Today's featured author is Anna Reckin. Anna's pamphlet 'Lavender and Other Colours Anna Reckin : Lavender and other colours explore perfume’s hybridity – how it engages with the natural world while also being highly synthesised – with colour used as referent and filter to negotiate its many layers.
A book cover with green spots against a grey background: Lavender and Other Colours by Anna Reckin. text on a white page reading 'Separating stems and seeds (Psyche's first task).
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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intergraphiabooks.bsky.social
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social is the best event in the UK imo. Comrades in art and writing coming together for a joyously exhausting weekend of chats (and sales!). None of this would happen without the hard work and vision of the fantastic Helen Mitchell.
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Oct 26
Thanks to everyone who visited the Longbarrow stall at @smallpublishers.bsky.social; our tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social & all the publishers/stallholders; the Conway Hall staff; and special thanks to Helen Mitchell & team for working so hard to make it such a memorable & successful event.
The Longbarrow Press stall at the 2025 Small Publishers Fair.
October 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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brihughespoet.bsky.social
Sharing my haul from @smallpublishers.bsky.social 2025 - look at these GORGEOUS books 😍
Image of a desk covered in books of various sizes and shapes. In the middle features a fan folded sheet with an ellipsis printed in square brackets Picture of a handmade square book with the title spell of hare collaged onto a delicate paper The same book unfolding to reveal a large page of handmade text - as the book unfolds, it looks like a conch The same book but in the process of closing - the focus of this image is a series of orange book binding strings
October 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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brihughespoet.bsky.social
I’M IN AWE - sharing images of handmade pamphlets, objects, zines, and more produced by my incredible MA poetry group for @smallpublishers.bsky.social 🧡
Table covered in books, envelopes, collages, and images of various shapes and sizes Image of some of the work on display at the fair. The work in the foreground is called ‘The Ribs Gift’ and is characterized by calligraphic writing on brown paper Close up image of a collage with handwritten text stuck across the span of the double page spread
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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imogenreid.bsky.social
@smallpublishers.bsky.social Haul! I 'Flight Paths' by @ggaffa.bsky.social/@nightjarpress.bsky.social , NaoKo TakaHashi' & @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social 'Blabbermind' by Andrew Kotting, @susiecampbell.bsky.social & @guillemotpress.bsky.social ,SJ Fowler/ Sampson Low. Fantastic reading from all 🔥🔥🔥
October 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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swedenborghouse.bsky.social
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October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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susiecampbell.bsky.social
What a joy! This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who came to the London launch of Wastelands (first pic), bought copies of the book at the @guillemotpress.bsky.social stall W(second pic), or just came to say hello!
Library, woman reading and talking, she is wearing blue jeans and a dark grape (purple) cardigan crowded hall from above, bookstalls with people buying books
October 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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orlaowenwriting.bsky.social
Popped into the @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair yesterday.

It was very busy, with beautiful books and artwork on display, & great to have a chat with @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social 💛📚📚💛

#books #booksky
October 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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hollygramazio.bsky.social
Lovely time at @smallpublishers.bsky.social yesterday, definitely ended up with more books than I intended (but many fewer than I wanted)
Folded book reading SHEEP’S SNOUT and CABBAGE STALK in front of a blurry crowd Four books laid flat: Rule Book, The Unreliable Nature Writer, A Zoo And Two O’s, and one with no visible title but lots of crowded images of other books
October 26, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who visited the Longbarrow stall at @smallpublishers.bsky.social; our tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social & all the publishers/stallholders; the Conway Hall staff; and special thanks to Helen Mitchell & team for working so hard to make it such a memorable & successful event.
The Longbarrow Press stall at the 2025 Small Publishers Fair.
October 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM