"A cancelled book launch. Not the end of the world. What would that look like. Would we know it if we saw it. I rise to leave. My clothes are damp with sweat. I’ve scarcely moved in the last two hours." 'Seven Degrees': on cancellations and connections longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/seven-degr...

'This music has been lost for decades – genuinely lost in that nobody outside the Meher Baba organisation knew where they were or even that they definitely existed' Robbie Basho Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes (2020) The Strange World Of… #RobbieBasho - #ThePortal buff.ly/XHTShyD

This one back in - Bim Sherman’s self-released 1988 dub killer ‘Ghetto Dub’, mixed by King Tubby, Prince Jammy and Adrian Sherwood w/ rhythms by The Roots Radics and Sly & Robbie, newly remastered for its first new edition in 30 years boomkat.com/products/ghe...

The Bread and Puppet Theatre's WHY CHEAP ART MANIFESTO was a huge inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink why you create : assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... Assembly Press (More on the manifesto here: breadandpuppetpress.org/products/why...)

Story is out now in the August issue of @uncutmagazine.bsky.social!

excellent piece from the times on robbie basho, as part of their "overlooked" series. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o...

John Coltrane Quartet :: Ballads (1963) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/06/19/j... The central mystery of Ballads is how an album of standards, recorded during one of the most radical periods in jazz history, feels every bit as profound as Coltrane’s more adventurous work. Midnite jazz column returns.

Poets: you can be as quiet as you want. The right readers will find you.

4AD is reissuing Mojave 3’s full back catalogue, encompassing five studio albums buff.ly/HNJi8W6

This album completely captured my imagination in the spring of 1998, finishing my first undergraduate year and having just seen them live on campus in a crowd of maybe 20. From the evocative artwork to the mysterious and impossible to remember song titles to the songs themselves, creeks and oboes.

"Hüsker Dü were the band for me in the mid 80s. Their music supplied the kicking out against your surroundings energy of hardcore but also brought elements of ascension and transcendence." Simon Reynolds on #HüskerDü - Zen Arcade buff.ly/PtTIv96

Alec Finlay, from <Be My Reader>

someone shared their experience of reading Continent with me and maybe I should go back to it and share pages that mean the most to me once and a while here's one, from "Archipelagoes"

I do not struggle with the poem, but with my own attentions. —@robmclennan.bsky.social

Written by music journalist Lauren Martin, Aftershock: The Seismic Impact Of Dubstep features words from Mala, Loefah, Kode9 and lots more New Book Narrates the Oral History of Dubstep buff.ly/J847U9w

I'm thrilled to announce that I will soon be an author! My book, The Twin Cities in 50 Maps, is a cartographic portrait of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The book includes 50 painstakingly designed maps and deeply researched essays that trace the Cities' urbanity, history, ecology, and culture.

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-...