I wish this self publishing were more acceptable or that it was more common for people to have design control over their books through a press, because I always know exactly what I want my books to look like and I am capable of making them look like that. Like, just let me do it.

Born #onthisday in 1889, British painter Paul Nash — one of the most important landscape artists of the 20th century. See highlights from his depictions of WW1 and WW2, the body of work for which he best known today: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-war-art-of-paul-nash-1917-1944 #otd

Peter Gizzi, from Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries (2008)

Everything But The Girl’s classic ‘Walking Wounded’ was released 30 years ago today 💿

OM’s first two albums, Variations On A Theme and Conference Of The Birds, are being reissued by Drag City on 29 May 2026 buff.ly/miYob5J

Long live the pamphlet.

Larry Eigner

I’ve seen mentions of the new Luomo tracks, but DAMN. Everything he’s released as Vladislav Delay or Luomo this year is top-of-his-game. Luomo stuff is classic Luomo with a few twists. vd stuff is wild: footwork/African/industrial, except vd5 which is *out there* vladislavdelay.bandcamp.com/music

Momentum building for Scottish-style access rights in England, says film OUR LAND, an amazing new film that interviews both landowners & members of the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, is out in cinemas from 8th May. Be sure to see it - and tell your MP to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our first event took place in Sheffield on 27 April 2006, which makes 20 years of Longbarrow Press. Thanks to all the poets, artists, readers, audiences, and many others who have been part of this project. Some reflections from last year: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory

We seem to have forgotten that identities and opinions are the least interesting parts of people—ripples on the surface of the ocean of the soul, shimmering but shallow, irrelevant to the depths. An antidote from the brilliant Annie Dillard, who turns 81 today

'This was the first indication they were going to resist fizzling out. Mogwai had serious professional aspirations, incompatible with nihilistic self-destruction. They would not die young.' Many Happy Returns to #Mogwai’s Rock Action, which turns 25 today! buff.ly/gmF6Zf8

Tired as I am of repeating this after 16 years, we enter the second quarter of this century – truly, the digital age – with too many book publishers, large and small, still failing to release titles digitally. In poetry especially, this is baffling.

I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes and designs is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song. -- David Byrne

"Our goal is simply to point out irregularity as a device, to show the necessity and the importance of irregularity in art." Aleksei Kruchenykh

A walk from York to Goole, via the River Ouse, Bishopthorpe, the Trans Pennine Trail, Selby and Boothferry, 9am to 9.30pm Thursday 2 April 2026. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

"Ha! Ha! Ha! I really loved, but Systems Of Romance is such a fascinating record and it really is a proto-John Foxx solo album. It’s not like I listen to this regularly but when I do, my god, it takes me back." Mark Gatiss on #Ultravox - Systems Of Romance buff.ly/L7DZvuK

The New School of the Anthropocene is an experimental micro-university, which offers an affordable, radical, alternative to mainstream higher ed. I teach there each year & we have students from Gaza, Ukraine & around the world. 2026 enrolment is now open. www.nsota.org @nsota.bsky.social

Heavy Structures in a Landscape Setting - is a title lifted shamelessly from a painting by a William McCance and at the minute exists only as a series of drawings printed and glued to form a clumsy approximation of a book.

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Glenn Bach : on EVAD periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/glen...

Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for prompting me to share a few thoughts about EVAD. periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/glen...

i spoke with mark nelson of pan•american about his beautiful new album for @styleweekly.com

I like to think of the Minutemen as a missing link between Creedence and Fugazi, not just in their music but also their belief that music should be available and accessible to the working masses

really enjoyed this new interview with @foxydigitalis.bsky.social read it here foxydigitalis.zone/2026/03/13/mapping-the-barely-audible-with-richard-chartier/ chatting about my latest album 'Eventual' on @901editions.bsky.social, LINE, my favorite sounds & sound memories, process, etc etc etc...

new from above/ground press: Wilkins, Maloukis, van Vliet, Cone/Lipschutz, Bach, Sparrow, Macdonald, Kennedy, Sparling, Burgoyne, Wells, Levy + Sharp, Touch the Donkey #48 + a bilingual anthol eds. O'Meara/Sylvain, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/new-...

Christopher Trela writes about Steve Roden's show at UCI OCMA that's on view through end of May 2026. 'Wandering the Steve Roden Exhibit at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art' www.newportbeachindy.com/wandering-th...

Larry Eigner

All caught up for book club tonight. #crookedriverzen

'Berman's lyrics are often melancholic, deceptively simple, funny and modest, with a sense of acute intelligence and curiosity that has somehow fallen in on itself under the weight of it all, left standing bemused and amused in the wreckage' The Strange World of #DavidBerman buff.ly/wf8j77h

new from above/ground press: EVAD, by Glenn Bach abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

EVAD is now available from above/ground press. Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the beautiful chapbook! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...

2/2 build now a squat stone tablet for ants to sun on and hide it in the dead grass: “Here lie My Children.” -Gary Snyder

1/2 walking lonely on a fall day in a long meadow, slanting open to the woods where the frost chilled the dead grass, a year ago peer sharply through the brown grass: the slim thin white thing rotted long ago -Gary Snyder

Copies arrived safe and sound (and dry, despite the relentless Cleveland snow). Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the first full chapbook from the Atlas long poem. An order link from above/ground press will be available soon.

Cover reveal for EVAD, forthcoming January 2026 from @robmclennan.bsky.social at above/ground press.

Eliot Weinberger

LINE 2025 REFLECTION: 'six sound installations' (LINE_168) by STEVE RODEN 10/2025 INFO: www.lineimprint.com/editions/sou... BANDCAMP: lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/six-so... All LINE downloads 20% OFF with code 'goodbye2025' on Bandcamp

Stevie Chick talked to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart Quietus Best Of 2025: Hüsker Dü Interviewed buff.ly/U5ZuEZa

how we spend our days is how we spend our lives, and how we spend our lives is what makes the world we live in

All poets working today need to read this article.

LINE 2025 REFLECTION: 'Forms of Paper (2024 remaster)' (LINE_158) by STEVE RODEN 1/2025 INFO: www.lineimprint.com/editions/sou... BANDCAMP: lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/forms-... + special vinyl edition by @buhrecords.bsky.social

If our cities are shaped by stories, then great books form the foundation of knowledge and inspiration needed to build more liveable, inclusive and prosperous places. These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.

this is true. this is totally happening.

(out of Hitomaro thicket night mountains birds spread the tail rivet the ruffling moon lifting, lifting the eyes light is gone in the sea the stars are bringing down sleep -Larry Eigner

"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures." @sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social]

The plane glints in the sun, spins out in smoke- tufted straights, loops ‘eternal <love, peace,> days’ nor had earth appeared more beautiful in its ruins’ luminous web of sand, of stone, grass, wind. -Karin Lessing, from “Nazca”

Lorine Niedecker again, a few five-liners (with rhyming third and fourth lines). Written in 1957-58, shortly after Niedecker started working “a menial job at Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital.” The tremendous punch of the wee.

"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