The facade is cracking

But his name be everywhere and summat in the way he speaks about world peace and us all being free I felt the fresh air of it like summat you can breathe, and now I only wanna believe. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite Lonbarrow Press 2026 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Red flags (ii), Dorset, 13 June 2026.

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Red flags (ii), Dorset, 13 June 2026.

While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

"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...

many many reasons not to use generative products. one i feel like i haven't seen articulated is the way these products rely on the user organizing tasks into "worthwhile" and "beneath me" or "meaning-making" and "meaningless or unproductive of [ultimate] meaning"

Very much recommend, both Fay and Longbarrow

"'To the End of the Land' is a poem-sequence working eloquently as a choir." Thanks to Jake Morris-Campbell for his review of Helen Tookey & Martin Heslop's collaboration in the current issue of Poetry London. You can buy the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Delighted my zine 'We Got Your Back' is in 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue' – exhibition of artist books, poetry & ephemera observing nature at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol More at www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/lookingfor20... Thanks @sarahbodman.bsky.social for including me! #zines

"It’s nice to sell books like this, in the corner of a pub, from a carrier bag, impromptu and faintly illicit. It’s a transaction but it’s more than that. It’s a moment of connection that starts with the book but is not necessarily centred on the book." When the band runs the merch table.

"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...

Bookpost today. Thank you @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and Fay Musselwhite for a lovely book of poetry. I'm looking forward to reading but I'm already enjoying the quality binding. 💙📚

Sheffieldism (noun). 1. The unshowy art of getting on with things, often with limited resources and/or uncertain outcomes, as an end in itself.

I turn off the @404ink.bsky.social bookshop tomorrow FOREVER! It's your absolute last chance to get a book from us directly, all on sale. My final trip to the post office! www.404ink.com/shop

An unsuccessful visit to Morrisons. The freezers and chiller cabinets have gone into thermal overload, resulting into the loss of several aisles' worth of food, and the empty units discharge stale heat. Meanwhile, an autonomous cleaning robot orbits the store, vacuuming imperceptible motes of dust.

'Now, said life' A chance collage fragment that quietly suggested itself, amidst the flotsam of papers on my table. The text cut out from a large print version of RLS 'Kidnapped'; the bird from my box of cut out animals; with some aged blue paper backing from some old letraset #collage #chance

Last day to order with free UK delivery

Local distribution, 27 June 2026. Nine miles, two-and-a-half hours, one delivery, five mallards on the river Sheaf, three overheating broadband cabinets, two swifts, one exhausted bee, rescued from the pavement and transferred to the shade of a nearby garden, one fox running.

No one - and I mean no one - packages their books like Longbarrow Books. The care!

Thanks to everyone who's bought a copy of 'The Gleaning' this week (in spite of the extreme heat obliging us to postpone its launch until the autumn). Last two days to order with free UK delivery: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Two #TinyJoys already today. A beautifully packaged parcel from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and @lfcrossley.bsky.social on Insta mentioning Darren Hayman’s album about lidos which I now know is gorgeous. A good start to Saturday after a very odd week. 🙌

Local distribution, 27 June 2026. Nine miles, two-and-a-half hours, one delivery, five mallards on the river Sheaf, three overheating broadband cabinets, two swifts, one exhausted bee, rescued from the pavement and transferred to the shade of a nearby garden, one fox running.

Do buy a copy of this if you haven't, & borrow a CD player if you don't have one (why?) to play the CD. I've given copies as presents. The lovely @helentookey.bsky.social will be one of our 4 poets reading at the October 7th poetry evening at Mecycle café/bar/bike workshop in Ainsdale, Southport.

Sheffield, Greenhouse of Hades

Sheffield, Furnace of Doom

"'To the End of the Land' is a poem-sequence working eloquently as a choir." Thanks to Jake Morris-Campbell for his review of Helen Tookey & Martin Heslop's collaboration in the current issue of Poetry London. You can buy the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Come along to Bristol Artist's Book Event (BABE) our biennial showcase of artists' books activity with 100+ artists and small presses exhibiting their works to the public for sale. Fri 26 and Sat 27 June 2026, 11am – 5pm each day each day, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

Local distribution, 25 June 2026. Five miles, two hours, two deliveries, one small tortoiseshell, one river, one cemetery, twenty-nine degrees, twenty-seven degrees, twenty-five degrees.

Longbarrow sell the most beautiful books full of exquisite words written by talented people. Their ‘business model’ (see above) is one to embrace. You won’t regret a purchase and you’ll get a lovely email of thanks. If you’re really lucky, a by hand delivery (maybe not today though 🥵)

On Tuesday morning, after two days of troubling forecasts, we took the decision to cancel the launch for 'The Gleaning'. To be done with uncertainty. The rest of the day was spent informing attendees and updating the publicity. Undoing an event involves almost as much admin as the event itself. 1/

I love @fayay.bsky.social 's The Gleaning. A sympathetic, historically rooted, politically astute poetry collection about class struggle, land, democracy, and more. You deserve this book. In her perfect world, the author would give it away; in this one, please support @longbarrowpress.bsky.social.

Another day of perfectly normal temperatures

A reminder that tonight's launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite is cancelled due to extreme heat. We intend to reschedule the launch for the autumn. In the meantime, you can order 'The Gleaning' here, with free UK delivery until Sunday: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

'I am here now beside you' A journal collage from today. I'm using a found book as a journal, this one has illustrations which offers a nice ground to work on top of #artjournaling #collage #encouragements

Some years ago, I worked in an air-conditioned office in southern England. It was lovely in the summer. The heat of the town didn't register at all. Neither did the question of how the system actually worked, removing heat and humidity from the indoor air, and transferring it outside.

Some years ago, I worked in an air-conditioned office in southern England. It was lovely in the summer. The heat of the town didn't register at all. Neither did the question of how the system actually worked, removing heat and humidity from the indoor air, and transferring it outside.

A reminder that tonight's launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite is cancelled due to extreme heat. We intend to reschedule the launch for the autumn. In the meantime, you can order 'The Gleaning' here, with free UK delivery until Sunday: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

This is, I think, the first time in 20 years that we've had to pre-emptively cancel an event (other than during the Covid lockdowns). Climate change is shrinking and disrupting the habitable zone for culture (and much else, of course).

Sheffield. 8am. It's already 23C. As usual, my street is nose to tail with cars, many of them SUVs, most of them without passengers, in a city with a perfectly good transport network.

The moon has made the sea milky, opaque the memory of our commonweal, that lost country where we once followed a different life in the nation of now. 'Article 50' Kelvin Corcoran (Longbarrow Press, 2018)

Out of concern for the wellbeing of performers & audience, we've taken the decision to cancel tomorrow's launch of The Gleaning by Fay Musselwhite, due to the heat warnings. We hope to reschedule for the autumn. In the meantime, you can order The Gleaning here: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

The 'leftwing case for Brexit', which, mysteriously, omits to mention the considerable benefits and achievements that have accrued since the vote to leave the European Union. No matter - I've summarised them below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This should be excellent: I like the three part structure of background (examples and theory) / direct experience / creation, spaced over three weeks - feels like that should work really well.

This is, I think, the first time in 20 years that we've had to pre-emptively cancel an event (other than during the Covid lockdowns). Climate change is shrinking and disrupting the habitable zone for culture (and much else, of course).

Unfortunately, due to the heat, the event is POSTPONED till the autumn. The Gleaning is available to buy here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Out of concern for the wellbeing of performers & audience, we've taken the decision to cancel tomorrow's launch of The Gleaning by Fay Musselwhite, due to the heat warnings. We hope to reschedule for the autumn. In the meantime, you can order The Gleaning here: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...