Happy National Poetry Day! For more information on the @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Poetry Store visit www.ucl.ac.uk/library/spec...

This year's exhibition at Small Publishers Fair (24 & 25 October) draws on several decades of work by artist and writer Erica Van Horn, who has been a participant at the Fair since the beginning. Details of the exhibition can be found here: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/exhibition-2...

We're really excited to be working with Monitor Books as our inaugural @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Small Press in Residence! www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...

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

Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.

During July and August, ‘spineless’ items from our Small Press Collections are on display ‪@senatehouselib.bsky.social‬ and can be seen as part of the wider Spineless Wonders exhibition there. Free & open to all! Many thanks to our friends at Senate House for having us! Image by Christos Fotelis

A small exhibition of material from the @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Small Press Collections is on at @senatehouselib.bsky.social until 31/8, complementary to their excellent Spineless Wonders. If you can't make it to SHL, here's a online guide to all the exhibits: sway.cloud.microsoft/tWg56jeuiFaQ...

Our amazing Cavan McCarthy / Tlaloc archive in @uclspeccoll.bsky.social has been catalogued by our brilliant Archives and Records Management placement student. All the deets here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!

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Interested in artists' magazines, experimental poetry journals and countercultural press? This one-day course on 23rd May explores some of UCLs most out-there periodicals. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

Its #nationalpoetrymonth , so download free PDFs of everything i've written: derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/ (or please do support the publishers & buy a book: derekbeaulieu.ca/buy-my-work/ )

Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Very good contextual piece on DSH.

10 days to go until the first Spineless Wonders event at Aberystwyth School of Art! 14 Mar: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection & Off The Shelf–Performing The Collection 15 Mar: Workshop, creative writing & making Info & booking 🔗👇 shorturl.at/By0c7

IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception 6-7 March, UCL Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

We had such a great day at our @uclspeccoll.bsky.social event last week celebrating 60 years of small press and mimeography at UCL. Thanks to everyone who came along and got stuck in. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...

On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni... #London #RareBooks #Archives

download PDFs of Poor.Old.Tired.Horse (1962-68), one of the most important visual poetry magazines internationally. (courtesy @ubuweb.bsky.social : www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old....)

The next Spineless Wonders event takes place on Friday 14th March. 'Conversing, traversing, translating the collection' - online via Zoom, 2pm–4:30pm. Exhibition, readings, and performances in person at Aberystwyth School of Art. Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events...

Join us for a free day of mimeo printing, talks, and performance in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...

If you're interested in dsh we have many fabulous examples in the UCL Small Press Collections: library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/art/special-... UCL Special Collections are open to all.

An article on Fanzines by Jon Savage in Sounds 14th, January 1978. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Last session of the year for History of Art BA Prints & Printmaking module. Any excuse to get the record player out! #flexidisc #aspen #velvetunderground

It was brilliant to meet up with Women's Wrongs, UCL's intersectional feminist zine soc, last week to look at recent small press publications. You can read their zine at womenswrongs.cheesegratermagazine.org

Poor Artists by The White Pube review – how to make it in the art world

Looking forward to this exhibition of experimental visual poetry at the Estorick, starting in Jan. Exhibits taken from the Fondazione Bonotto collection of Fluxus, concrete, visual, sound poetry. www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/...