Write into the honey. ... Write into the rain. —Rick Barot

on the drying grass in the park under falling leaves with Pattern-book by @eireannmor.bsky.social

so great! 📚⛰️☕️

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. —Frank O’Hara

Stoen 678: truſt hereinbefore ſpecified

and a wonderful exhibition too! 📚🌄⛰️

a lovely video for world book night 🌄🌋🗿📚

If you love myths and love reading about the natural world, I highly recommend MYTHOPEDIA by Adrienne Mayor. Organized A to Z, it explores natural phenomena all over the world and related the myths and folklore.

I’ve been recommending this essay to a lot of friends and students so I figured I should probably share it here too: “How To Mourn” by Tyrese Coleman, published in The Kenyon Review in 2017

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/

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.

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

'Another world is possible' Contemplating interbeing and our relationships with (other) animals this morning through collage journaling in a found book, with Arundhati Roy's words to generate hope for a more compassionate world for our animal kin #interbeing #humananimal #weareallconnected

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! ☀️🌀

✂️ Weekend #Giveaway for e(i 8: #Collage✂️ FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/E6d26Y2 Interact w/ this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you #FREE STICKERS as a thanks! #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity #litmag #indielit

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.

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. ⛰️📚

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 🗻⛰️

Thursday ☀️

Forever a vibe.

Grid, Variation,Layered Print on Wove Paper

Rubbish Poem

I really like this - simple and to the point! ‘Creation myth’ by Mike Johnson.

SAS Season 3 Call for Proposals! We are seeking proposals for readings of #artistsbooks that are not yet completed or that are over three years old and will be completely reimagined for the reading format. Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST. Full details: www.newlightspress.com/sas-submissi...

INCREDIBLY excited to share the line up for the Hydropoetry in Practice conference! Join us at Royal Holloway or online on 30th July 🌊🌊🌊 www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr...

Spineless Wonders exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social is a treasure trove of pamphlets, manifestos, chap books & artist books through time & space.

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...

Here are a few poems from my collection Constellations (Guillemot Press), a sequence of visual poems based on the 88 recognised astronomical constellations. 🖤 #concretepoetry

Excited to have 2 meta-ekphrastic poems in issue 6 of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social Both constructed from museum visitor texts created as part of the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social interactive poetry display - see pages 112 & 113 www.lincolnreview.org/issue6 #ekphrasis #ekphrasticpoetry

I shall be reading different works at events on the next two Saturdays On 12 July, 2pm, an event as part of “Checked Out” - at the former Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield. On Sat 19 July 2-4 at Hive Cic in Bolton as part of Let’s talk about Text exhibition

Excited to have some work in a group exhibition @rossicontemporary. "Trust The Artist" opens today, featuring work by: #davidquinn #johnvanoers, lucky old me, et al. If you are in Brussels pop in and take a look! 🕊

I’ve two new visual poems in issue ten of the wonderful @aswirl.bsky.social. The issue makes for a beautiful reading experience. www.aswirlzine.com/product-page...

Doechii Covers British Vogue, August 2025 issue

Olaf Probst reads and presents his artists' books Thursday 17th July 6pm. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his group of works - Grey Values. Archive Artist Publications Türkenstraße 60 basement, Munich 80799, Germany. All welcome. archive-artistsbooks.de/kontakt.htm

Looking forward to our latest 'Show and Tell' session sharing photohistory with fellow enthusiasts. Tuesday 15th July (1900-2000). Great opportunity to learn more about @rpshistgroup.bsky.social ... register via link. events.rps.org/en/g/z9tTjH8...

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 167, July - August 2025 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 76 pages of Artists' Books News - Exhibitions, Courses, Workshops, Opps, Book Fairs and Events, New Artists' Publications, Reports & Reviews, Announcements and Stop Press!

Sunday ☀️☁️

Divider composition.

Kristjan Haljak & I will be performing our collaborative piece at the Estonian poetry night of the European Poetry Festival at @poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June. Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤 Line-up so far here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com

Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 1, 1915, Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major abstract works in Western art #WomensArt

Monoprint. Acrylic on paper. #art #print #printmaking #monotype #monoprint #gelprint #figuredrawing #abstractfigurative

You can check all three issues of our zine eYeland for free on our website. Wild, experimental, handmade, cut and paste zine featuring textual and visual work. Check it out! c22press.wordpress.com/zines/

Linocut. Joseph Brisot, Black And Blue Abstract, 1985 #linocutartists #printmaking #reliefprints #linocut

Thoroughly delighted that my essay "The Time of Suspense and The Time of Suspension" (p.12) has found a home in issue 6 of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social alongside @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social et al. All thanks to Daniele Pantano and editors at TLR www.lincolnreview.org/issue6

Every day since the first printing I've made more copies of this booklet. It's fun doing small batches and I change the paper colors/stocks each time. Half the print run to date is already sold/distributed, which feels amazing. I'll keep making more so no rush. halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...

Cover, Dutch sales booklet Olivetti 82 Diaspron Typewriter Giovanni Pintori, designer c. 1965 Source (and lots more about Pintori) at the Online Archive of @letterformarchive.org; letterformarchive.org/news/giovann...

Vintage anti-war poster, circa 1970 — Peace Now.

Rights of Humankind ∘ Designer: Shin Matsunaga: Japanese graphic designer known for for his corporate identity programs, logo designs and posters, 1989.