A walk from Leeds to Goole, via the River Aire, the Aire and Calder Navigation, the Knottingley and Goole Canal, the New Junction Canal and the Dutch River, 6.45am to 9.52pm Friday 26 September. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

A (very) approximate route map of yesterday's walk from Leeds to Goole: forty miles, fifteen hours, four counties, two wrong turns, and one illegal fence, strung the width of the towpath, uprooted and destroyed.

So... here's why I havent posted much. Been writing a book! Thrilled to share The Feminist Art of Walking is out on Pluto October 20th www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Thanks so much to everyone who has helped make this happen, I am excited and a bit scared for you to read it

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

My last post of the year on the swifts we share a house with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

Now *there* is a ramble…! 👏👏👏

A (very) approximate route map of yesterday's walk from Leeds to Goole: forty miles, fifteen hours, four counties, two wrong turns, and one illegal fence, strung the width of the towpath, uprooted and destroyed.

Small flags.

Off to walk 40 miles from Leeds to Goole. Back this evening. Buy some books, kids: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

So the walking ends and we turn in at our doors and switch on the light and there are all the books in rows trying to tell us what we could have done. ‘Nine Poems’, Peter Riley, in 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' (Longbarrow Press, 2019) longbarrowpress.com/featured-poe...

Butterbumps booming from brackish phragmites, gorged on the bootlace bounty. Harriers quartering over. Campfire wisp from the holme’s relief in the pearl of the roseate dawn; boat slides from creek into tidal waters, trailing its fuchsia ripple. 'Eely' Steve Ely longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

We'll be at @smallpublishers.bsky.social at London's Conway Hall on Fri 24/ Sat 25 October with tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and many excellent presses and artists including @uniformbooks.bsky.social @essencepress.bsky.social @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and more. Hope to see you there.

Sky darkens bright with ancient light from uncountable pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space, swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel slips off, begins to make her way downstream. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

To hell with the small life. I am not exquisite. Cannot sing like bone china. This is the blue hour. I swim in it, alone and perfectly. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social cards, designed (as always) by @uniformbooks.bsky.social, and featuring the work of Erica Van Horn (the subject of this year's exhibition). Fri 24 / Sat 25 October, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. 11am-7pm, admission free, all welcome.

"The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory

This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social cards, designed (as always) by @uniformbooks.bsky.social, and featuring the work of Erica Van Horn (the subject of this year's exhibition). Fri 24 / Sat 25 October, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL. 11am-7pm, admission free, all welcome.

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...

National Flag of Anywhere and Everywhere National Flag of Everywhere and Anywhere Gloss laminated postcard; Colin Sackett, 2025.

Requiescat in pace, Richard Eason. Quietly brilliant, obscurely talented, gentle, funny, intelligent, generous, a sensitive ally to many, a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years and a good friend for thirty years, and now, suddenly and unexpectedly, gone. I will miss him terribly.

Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled-out on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales. Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats, armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup. 'Eely' Steve Ely Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

"A brilliant press." - Ian McMillan "You'll never see a dud from Longbarrow." - Charlie Connelly Current publications longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Take thy rod and cast it in Pharaoh’s river, in the presence of his bailiffs, policemen and solicitors; where the maggots released from the feeder shall be transformed into serpents, devouring his salmons, trouts and barbels... 'Eely' Steve Ely Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

A book is a record of processes, textual, temporal, material. It is made out of the world & it makes its own world & it makes its way through the world. Each of these worlds is imperfect. Nevertheless the possible book shows me that another world is possible. longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/inventory

"Tealights and wheat ears in the west chamber, dried flowers on the lower ledges. I have brought no offerings. I pace the length of the barrow, back and forth, and then, after a few minutes, stop at the threshold, lost in the play of light on stone." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/slow-netwo...

"Constellations brightening and softening. All the distances drawing close." A night walk on the Dutch River longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river

Love this description of a young European eel's gnarly entry into the urban English landscape via the kingdom of the Amazon fulfilment centre. (Published by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social)

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it

I call you grandson, and you look and in that look, you become my grandson. Like this, like light returning from one mirror to another, we create each other. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

'To have brought a shell to bed with me, picked from a Welsh cove. To have spoken to no one, to have let grammar abrade and brighten with the wet stones. To return now with something to tell you. “The sea”, says Adnan. “Nothing else”.' Angelina D'Roza longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Nothing is quite absolute and whether you’re seeking or fleeing, all roads lead home. Move far enough in one direction, landfall always rolls around again like dawn. 'Hemisphere' @petegreensolo.com A short book A long poem An impossible journey Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Big broodfish winter at sea: enter the river each spring to seek their redds—Gironde, Garonne, Dordogne. Everything’s against them: bycatch, gravel works, Golfech’s hydroelectric plant and pressurised water-cooled reactors. 'Eely' Steve Ely Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

I was looking for the fault the tripping switch the place where the signal jumped the tracks To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

'writing along an invisible line whose end is infinite' “The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”. 'Meridian' Nancy Gaffield longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

I lift a gift of conkers from September, Wrapped up in Weston Park, and press and Savour their cool smoothness and remember Twenty autumns back... Sheffield Almanac @petegreensolo.com Second edition Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Earth nailed to the Sun like a hoary vulture, a birch leaf trapped in the meltwater whorl. The basking perihelion widens the ascent from the Río de Oro to the Norwegian Trench, the swollen lodes of Europe. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

It's Friday, buy a book

Small Publishers Fair October 2022 The fair is coming up again soon 24-25 Oct 2025 Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London WC1R 4AL #smallpublishers #artistsbooks #handprinted #smallpublishersfair2025 #screenprinting

The meaning of an unread binary choice has changed everything, a future unexamined; picture an island slowly rowing to the America. The Tinny Islands go trumpety-trump and sink in a fog of self-absorption as the princes pipe their old new tunes. 'Article 50' Kelvin Corcoran

The meaning of an unread binary choice has changed everything, a future unexamined; picture an island slowly rowing to the America. The Tinny Islands go trumpety-trump and sink in a fog of self-absorption as the princes pipe their old new tunes. 'Article 50' Kelvin Corcoran

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Congratulations JR Carpenter and congratulations also to publisher, Shearsman Books. Looking forward to welcoming you back to the Fair this October.

England crouches, its back turned to the continent, resentful, effaces history and dreams an America; despite this you can see the sea from Brunswick Place and poetry leaps at the high windows there, you meet an old friend go to a bar and the stars appear. 'Article 50' Kelvin Corcoran

The pillars are meshed, all the steel in alignment, plumb to the flat earth. I can’t unpick the lattice, white static in a dark net. (11/68, 'White Thorns', 2017)

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

'With Carcanet I have the confidence to have creative conversations at the production level, which is one of the characteristics of working with small, independent presses.' Anthony Vahni Capildeo, in an interview for @gutter.bsky.social Read in full here: www.guttermag.co.uk/recent-writi...

We'll be at @smallpublishers.bsky.social at London's Conway Hall on Fri 24/ Sat 25 October with tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and many excellent presses and artists including @uniformbooks.bsky.social @essencepress.bsky.social @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and more. Hope to see you there.

England crouches, its back turned to the continent, resentful, effaces history and dreams an America; despite this you can see the sea from Brunswick Place and poetry leaps at the high windows there, you meet an old friend go to a bar and the stars appear. 'Article 50' Kelvin Corcoran

Short but perceptive thread to warm the hearts of us old lags of small press publishing.