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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 59m

A Fair regular, @essencepress.bsky.social is the imprint of Edinburgh-based artist, curator & publisher Julie Johnstone, whose minimal quiet books, cards and poem objects explore perception and contemplative experience. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25 24/25 Oct
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1h

Britian Frist

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 2h

I am saying once again that the Conservative attack on the Arts is because they are incredibly envious of artists who they perceive as a group that has “too much” cultural power, a type of influence Conservatives crave but will never have because they’re anti-intellectuals with no imagination.

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 3h

We are nature. Its best interests are our best interests. So it's pretty dim of our chancellor to again pit wildlife against people, boasting of 20,000 homes built despite "some snails" that "are a protected species or something". www.theguardian.com/environment/... Unsavoury lobbying here too.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3h

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16h

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16h

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16h

Dan had the dorm room next to mine at Eton, so we were able to cut through some of the red tape

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16h

Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of 'The Landfill Murders' by Dan Grift

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Alasdair Pettinger @bulldozia.com · 3d

Treat yourself and follow Brian on this compelling meditative autumnal journey through the edgelands.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

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Shipping containers on the waterside at Stourton, two miles south-east of Leeds city centre.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18h

Good grief

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 22h

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process."

Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 1d

The first Two-Way Poetry podcast of Series Three is out. I talk to Al McClimens about time and place in Simon Armitage’s ‘Evening’ and his own poem ‘Grand National’ twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/al-mcclime...

Al McClimens on Simon Armitage's poem 'Evening' and his own poem 'Grand National' | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast

In this episode, I talk to Al McClimens about Simon Armitage’s poem ‘Evening’ and his own poem ‘Grand National’. We discuss ideas of place and time in Armitage's 'views' of Marsden, the village where ...

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 8d

see you there!

Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 21d

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 1d

From 'rotatory', 1993. 24 whole-page illustrations cut into equal parts and reassembled as new pictures. The collages all include one part from each in its original position.

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · 4d

An epic thread,but one worthy of space and time, of grief and thought, of love and landscape. Walking as exploration of place and self of belonging and exclusion.

An utter joy

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

Great for pre-internet newspaper archives, among other things

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 1d

In the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books this month. Les Fugitives has been preparing a reprint of Erica Van Horn’s We Still Have the Telephone for this month’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social Small Publishers Fair.

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Hayden Lorimer @slipshodspeller.bsky.social · 5d

“Things have changed on the ground.”

@longbarrowpress.bsky.social walking in memory of memory.

So much here.

Forget about Netflix. Scroll this route for proper descriptive drama…

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 2d

His text to me, on making it to Goole train station with 6 minutes to spare, was 'made it. mother of god'.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 2d

Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unexpectedly lengthy) walk-in-progress over the past few days. It's much appreciated. The full thread (128 posts) is below.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

May it be fast, brutal, and irreversible

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

Home Bargains, B&M Stores, seventy miles of useless aisles

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Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social · 5d

Read the whole thread - stunning photos and a walk with a disturbing piece of recent history which has resulted in place-making and memorial.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September.

An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 5d

Impact Press will be at the Small Publishers Fair soon, 24-25 October at the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. @smallpublishers.bsky.social
We’ll be selling the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 at a special price of £10 come along and get a copy!
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2...

Invitation for the Small Publishers Fair - listing all exhibitors and the featured exhibition by Erica Van Horn.

Cover Image of the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 produced by Tom Sowden prompting DALL·E to design it.

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