Tickets are now available for Collage Club events throughout May, June and July: www.creatrixcymraes.com/shop/p/colla...

Very excited for the online launch of THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE on Thursday 4 June at 7.30pm where I’ll be joined by two amazing poets Jamie Fearn and Conway Emmett. Tickets are FREE with an option to buy the book from @arachnepress.bsky.social. Here’s the link: www.outsavvy.com/event/35232/...

The manuscripts — including poems written on envelopes, concert programmes + chocolate wrappers — of Emily Dickinson, who died #onthisday in 1886: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t... #otd (Pictured: “The way hope builds his house”, scrawled upon an opened out envelope, resembling a house)

Bristol Artist’s Book Event is Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2026, 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome An international event showcasing artists’ books to the public. Special guests from Japan bringing bookworks and the Kujibiki Drawing project. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

Next stop on this year's Colossive Roadshow is the Glasgow Zine Fest on 23rd and 24th May (aka 'the weekend after next'). We're very excited about this one - not least because the trip's doubling as a holiday. Hope to see you there! #zinefair #glasgowzinefest #zines

Last chance to book! Join Bodley's Librarian Richard Ovenden as he talks about knowledge, power and why libraries still matter - now more than ever. 🗓️ 14 May, 5.30-7.30pm 📍 Weston Library Book now: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/fob-annual-lecture

I made a new Public Collectors postcard! The text is extracted from something I posted here about 6 months ago. The design came to me in a dream (or night of bad sleep). Mail them to friends who need a creative nudge to self-publish. They are 4 for $3.00 from halfletterpress.com/leave-a-reco...

Call for exhibitors - Athens Art Book Fair: The ABBF is an artist-run organisation devoted to artist publishing. Our international art book fair happens once a year and hosts artists, publishers, zinesters and anything in-between from Greece and abroad. Deadline to apply 31 May. athensartbookfair.gr

Stoop - set of 3 half frame photographs of a traditional Lake District stoop printed onto 6x4 archive paper. Photographs were made using my Pentax 17, Ilford HP5 and developed with DD-X. #believeinfilm #filmphotography #HFF #printyourwork #lakedistrict

The @senatehouselib.bsky.social Printer is Residence, Becca Drake, is delivering two free workshops and a roundtable later this month, and they’re free! First up, a zine-making workshop on 21 May: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Our latest #BHLat20 anniversary blog post is very juicy. 🍎🍐🍇 #MuseumsVictoria Archivist Nik McGrath explores the Industrial & Technological Museum’s extraordinary wax fruit collection, and the stunning specimen register that documented it. Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/itm-...

In the run up to Bristol Artist's Book Event over Fri 26 - Sat 27 June we have a one-day class Suminagashi Paper Marbling on Thursday 25 June 2026 here in Bristol with visiting US artist Jeff Rathermel. More info and booking link at: cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/courses/cpd/

Summer's closer than you think, so get your RBS applications in before all the seats are gone! Our new website makes it easier than ever to explore RBS courses and other opportunities. You can find details of our courses and instructions on how to apply at rarebookschool.org/courses. #RareBooks

A few more of the 200 contributions to 'The Mountains Are Calling' our World Book Night 2026 exhibition (on show until 31 July) here at Bower Ashton Library. You can download the collective reading list and watch a video of a selection of the artworks via links at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/

LIKE A MAD GARDENER / THE SUITCASE Charlotte Winkler & William Goldsmith Book Launch & Private View: Wednesday 13 May at the London Centre for Book arts, free event, all welcome. Exhibition continues 14 May - 27 June 2026: londonbookarts.org/blogs/news/l...

We have a funded PhD studentship on offer between Tate St Ives and UWE Bristol: Investigating the impacts of socially engaged art on cultural organisations and contemporary art practice. Closing date 10 May. All info here: www.uwe.ac.uk/research/pos...

So looking forward to this! 💙

NEW ZINE! Octopuses Don't Wear Bow Ties is a rallying call to anyone who's ever had the confidence knocked out of them and stopped doing something they loved. Featuring not-very-good-but-perfectly-adequate drawings from 1976 and last week, it's £3 at colossive.com #zines #smallpresscomics

Centre CHoP are hosting the latest in their series of lightning talks on print culture and the book arts on Wednesday 6 May, 4-5pm BST in Leeds and online. Get in touch if you want the link

Save the date for the Zine Librarian’s unConference 2026 ONLINE Saturday, November 7th & Sunday, November 8th….more details to follow.

Workshop now booking. Loving feedback from last year! "Richard has a great sense of humour & sharp intelligence that's bracing & enlightening. He knows poetry. He meets students where they're at to find our strengths & encourage us to try alternatives if called for" poetryschool.com/courses/clar...

The Artist’s Book Yearbook 2026-2027 is back from the printers, order your copy! Essays, Artists pages, Places, Collections, Organisations, Studios etc. 400+ new Artists’ Books Listings.288pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, b&w, 497 illustrations. More info + order links here: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/artists-book...

'The project will draw upon the recently digitised and largely unexamined Joint Translation Service (JTS) bulletins, a sole archive housed at the British Library.' Deadline for applications 5 May:

A collage to be hung on the wall #collage #papercollage #handcut #assembled

One of >many< brilliant illustrations for the book, I might add. @landisblair.bsky.social is a prince among cross-hatchers and a delight to know and work with.

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair this Saturday (25 April): hope to see you there. St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...

A video with a selection of the 200 contributions to our WBN 2026 exhibition (on show until 31 July) 'The Mountains Are Calling' is now live for World Book Night 23rd April at: youtu.be/T3n3Q_uMJeE Music for the video composed and performed by Si Butler and Simon Smith. Image ⬇️ Cecilia Mandrile.

A fleeting sense of, revisited: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/re... Something new on Marginalia

Publishing crowdfunder: 'Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay' will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, collaborator, friend, and sometimes an adversary. Edited by @gregchthomas.bsky.social info & fundraiser link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

@kickstarter.com now live! Annotated Facsimile #MRJames manuscript bit.ly/OhWhistle Contributors include: @accordingtojond.bsky.social @helengrantsays.bsky.social @manoghosts.bsky.social @theprofrog.bsky.social @nunkie.bsky.social @profdarryljones.bsky.social @jfmachin.bsky.social

Join us on Tuesday for Habitation: poems on the theme of land/class/nature with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite. Tue 21 April The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield, S3 8GG Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...

The Mountains Are Calling… An exhibition for World Book Night is now on show at Bower Ashton Library until Friday 31st July 2026. Open Mon-Fri 9-5, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/ ⛰️📚 Inspired by Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. ⛰️📚

Habitation: a collective reading with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite. The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG Tuesday 21 April (7pm doors, 7.30pm start) Admission free, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...

Somewhere in amongst all the glories of this issue is a little piece of mine.

An event this weekend at Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG, UK, organised by the Hay Letterpress Guild. Their inaugural Printers' Fair is a Celebration of Print Making & Associated Arts, Saturday, 11th April 2026, 10-4, free, all welcome. www.hayletterpressguild.org

Our second exhibition that has opened this month is Gen Harrison's '100 Days Project Scotland: Fold | Found Concertinas'. 100 artists' books made over 100 days. On show now at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK until Tues 30th June, Mon-Fri 9-5, more info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/100days2026/

Submissions are now OPEN for the summer issue! Send in your short, minimal & concrete poems by 30th April. The more sun-soaked & thunderstormy the better! ☀️🌀

One of 3 new exhibitions that have been installed here this week: Kathy Bruce and Alastair R Noble, books and objects, Thurs 2nd April* – Sun 28th June 2026. More info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/brucenoble/ *The college will be closed for the holidays from Fri 3rd April – Tues 7th April inclusive.

The Book Arts Newsletter No 172, April - June 2026 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 60 pages of artists' books news and opportunities. Cover artist for this issue: Angelo Ricciardi for World Book Night 2026 Next deadline: 15th June for the July – August newsletter.

I keep this biography of Georges Perec on my desk and use it to source starter words for Wordle every morning. Feels like quite a Perecquian thing to do

I'll be in Edinburgh with @thebinkshub.bsky.social on 2nd April for a Day of Co-Creation, celebrating creative & participatory research practices. Creative writing + zine workshops, & the book launch of A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations - join us! 👉 tinyurl.com/yrnw9uj3

The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky palaeography.uk/study/short-...

How I learned that it’s good to have an open mind about who the first person narrator is in a poem: acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/the-dancing-...

Spaces are still available in many of our summer 2026 courses, but don’t wait, as classes are filling up! To view this year's schedule and learn more about the application process, visit rarebookschool.org/schedule. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. #RareBooks @uvalibrary.bsky.social

BEAUTY OF THE HEAVENS 1849 ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA 103 Colour LITHOGRAPHS Blunt #books #antiquarian #history #astronomy #planets #stars #constellations #moons #eclipse #lithographs #heavens #phenomena #clouds #sky #bookauction bit.ly/4d4Ax4G

The Blue Notebook: Volume 20 No 2, Spring - Summer 2026 is ready for free download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/ The first of two issues covering Australian artists' books practice from abbe 2025 in association with the LIBRIS Awards at Artspace Mackay, QLD. Cover artist: Chris Wong.

Call for Papers New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Workshop to assess the current state of research on the New Left. Cfp for an event to be held in November at QMUL. Info here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Some of the 200 pieces received for World Book Night 2026 The Mountains Are Calling… Our exhibition opens in April at UWE Bristol Bower Ashton Library and is on show until 31st July. Works here by: @rareautumn.bsky.social @nickwhimster.bsky.social @porcovolente.bsky.social @markleahy.bsky.social 🗻⛰️

Support the development of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest through this extraordinary PhD placement opportunity. Available to students currently registered at a UK HEI, three full-time, six-month placements. Applications open until Monday 6 April. Find out more: link.bl.uk/dnv