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 £2 off until 20 Feb 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 £2 off until 20 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Four book sales this month. Four.

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 £2 off until 20 Feb longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

I dream in fragments of Rhapsody in Blue the opening phrase never descending to answer its own question. I dream in notations of wildflowers, the iolanthe’s quiet dissent against the clamouring larkspur... 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza £2 off until 20 Feb longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

I dream in fragments of Rhapsody in Blue the opening phrase never descending to answer its own question. I dream in notations of wildflowers, the iolanthe’s quiet dissent against the clamouring larkspur... 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza £2 off until 20 Feb longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem

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 £2 off until 20 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Prunella Clough, False Flower, 1993 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1128930

Prunella Clough, Stack, 1993

The stylish and sturdy @longbarrowpress.bsky.social books are a wondrous thing, with eternity built-in.✨

'Another World is Possible: Art & connection in uncertain times' Featuring Ian Tothill, Ben Holden & me Collage, riso prints, zines + a giant interactive zine wall Fountain Street Arts, Thornton, Bradford March–April 2026 👉 fountainstreetarts.com/schedule #Bradford #Art #Artivism

Do you have this book? Have you read it. Well, I do, and I have, and I look forward to reading it again. (Need to find my copies of Riley’s other books.)

True dat

A few reasons to order books from Longbarrow Press: 1. First-rate poems 2. Scrupulously edited 3. Meticulously designed 4. Handsomely produced 5. Fastidiously packaged longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

The Decline of British Book Manufacturing Parts I-XXVI

"Eely is a symphony in four movements. This book-length poem by Steve Ely explores themes of fenland, power, conflict and biodiversity, and the lifecycle, ecology, epic migration, conservation status and enigma of the European eel." longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Did someone say fenland?

To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden. Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

'A walk is an act of displacement. A walk is an act of attention. Are either of these things true? Wrong question. Can they both be true at the same time? Wrong question.' 'Point Zero': a night walk from Thorne to Goole longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero

"Everything flows, everything is the eel." Out now from Longbarrow Press: Steve Ely's 'Eely', a symphony in four movements. Fenland, power, conflict, biodiversity. Here's a short introduction with four poems: longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/e...

I do miss working at a bigger office where it was possible to print my zine for eighteen months on an industrial printer without anyone noticing 🖨️🖨️🖨️

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...

The first unsolicited London Book Fair meeting request of 2026. Spring is around the corner. "Kindly advise a convenient date/time to schedule our meeting and we will be delighted to meet you." Of course, please visit our microstand, measuring 1 centimetre x 1 centimetre, staffed by Lego figures

Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob, a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup, plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Earlier this year, we published 'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Apt for winter reading (and listening). You can order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Very much looking forward to having a table for Essence Press at the Artists' Bookmarket this coming weekend 14-15 Feb @fruitmarket.bsky.social #ArtistsBookMarket Do drop by to say hello if you are nearby... Over 60 book artist and publisher tables to browse. www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/artist...

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...

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...

Printed papers longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

'A city caught in the act of disappearing.' Available now: the second part of my conversation with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which he and I discuss his sequence 'Little Piece of Harm' (and other Longbarrow titles). twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/part-two-o...

"...addresses the stereotypical view of Surrey in his introduction and regrets that it is 'pretty much at the bottom of the heap in terms of poetic credibility, authenticity of voice, rootedness.'"

Just released - the 2nd episode of my interview with @thehalt.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast on his memoir Last Collection and my book Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vgna2...

Line Drawing, Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

'A city caught in the act of disappearing.' Available now: the second part of my conversation with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which he and I discuss his sequence 'Little Piece of Harm' (and other Longbarrow titles). twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/part-two-o...

I’m giving a talk on ‘The Ecology of Eely’ - the interlocking artistic, scientific, public and other contexts that informed and shaped the poem’s development - at the ‘Poetry’s Environments’ conference at the University of Leeds in June.

Somewhere in Tethys’ salty darkness, in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs in uncountable centillions, each buoyed on its micron of oil. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements £2 off until midnight longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Visionary, urgent… truly extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald A spirited, astonishing, bewildering collection. - Adam Piette One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok 'Eely' Steve Ely £2 off until 4 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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 £2 off until 4 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

In 2016, Peter Mandelson tried to shut down Longbarrow Press after we declined to publish his debut poetry collection, 'Spin Cycle'. Only now can we reveal the full details of this wretched saga. 1/128

Born in the Garden, died in the Flames, Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime. Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death, coming down every year to a single fear: will this be the spring that none return? 'Eely' Steve Ely £2 off until 4 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Somewhere in Tethys’ salty darkness, in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs in uncountable centillions, each buoyed on its micron of oil. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements £2 off until midnight longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

A symphony in four movements, Steve Ely's 'Eely' explores the themes of power, conflict, biodiversity and eels as they converge and ramify in the Yorkshire fenlands (and beyond). Available as a beautifully produced hardback, with £2 off until tomorrow: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

It's a beautiful book - get in!

A symphony in four movements, Steve Ely's 'Eely' explores the themes of power, conflict, biodiversity and eels as they converge and ramify in the Yorkshire fenlands (and beyond). Available as a beautifully produced hardback, with £2 off until tomorrow: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

Born in the Garden, died in the Flames, Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime. Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death, coming down every year to a single fear: will this be the spring that none return? 'Eely' Steve Ely £2 off until 4 February longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

"The things that make up a life. Suddenly they seem so small. This fragment of meteorite, for example. I’ve carried it with me for forty-five years. The memory of the places I once called home. In every flake and fissure. It rests in the hollow of my hand." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero