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"The inventory is whatever will fit into two rucksacks and two carrier bags. To be hauled, on foot, between tram, train and tube. City to city.​ One year to the next." 'The Exchange': some reflections on the 2025 Small Publishers Fair longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange

This old poem of mine stays relevant every November www.therupturemag.com/the-collagis...

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

We've finished spotlighting the poets in our new issue! Read the whole thing here badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two

Support our #crowdfund for Up//Roar #Poems of #Queer Resistance with these dolly #handmade #badges from editors @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and #cherrypotts 2.5cm, safety back, using cover art by #frankduffy from Joy//Us or original designs. longlisting poems on Tuesday tinyurl.tools/8330fc82

You’ve got ‘til 11:59pm tonight to submit your work to UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance, to be published in 2026 by @arachnepress.bsky.social! Open to LGBTQ+ poets based in the UK/RoI only. Thanks to @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social for the loan of a tiger! arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...

A gentle reminder to all LGBTQ+ poets that it’s time to get organised and submit to UP//ROAR: Poems of Queer Resistance, to be published next year by @arachnepress.bsky.social! SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 1 NOV 2025! (Open to LGBTQ+ poets based in the UK/RoI only) arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689...

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

Stall-holders view at @smallpublishers.bsky.social! Three hours left to see you at @conwayhall.bsky.social – closes 7pm!

Very happy that copies of KATE POEM ZINE BOOK and 9 GOLDEN RULES: Reading Poetry in Public will soon be on the shelves of the National Poetry Library! They’re both also available on my stall at today’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social running at @conwayhall.bsky.social until 7pm!

All set up and ready for two days at @smallpublishers.bsky.social! See you at @conwayhall.bsky.social today and tomorrow Saturday 25 October! Artists’ Books! Books! Poetry!

Europe is the only region of the globe that saw more deaths due to HIV in 2022 than it did in 2010. An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025. www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...

One day to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions, and now updated with table plan. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/get-the-most...

I'm going to be repping @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social along with coeditor @rachelartsmith.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social this Friday and Saturday. Come say hello and check out the verdant loveliness of our Series 4 pamphlets.

Our crowdfunder for Up//Roar poems of Queer Resistance is live! This anthology of #LGBTQ+ #poems will be edited by Cherry Potts and Jeremy Dixon (Hazard Press). Help get our tiger roaring! submissions (UK/RoI only) still open til 1st nov www.crowdfunder.co.uk/uproar-poems-of-queer-resistance

youtu.be/ulG41ZR7Zis short video from Cherry Potts & Jeremy Dixon about our planned #LGBTQ+ #poetry anthology - UP//ROAR poems of Queer Resistance, to remind queer poets in UK & RoI #submissions open until 1st November arachnepress.submittable.com/submit crowdfunding soon! keep an eye out for that.

Two days to go! Here's a webpage with all the essential info for your visit to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, this Fri & Sat (24 & 25 Oct, 11am-7pm): programme, new titles, map, venue info, directions (table plan available tomorrow) smallpublishersfair.co.uk/get-the-most...

WOTTA DOLLY EEK!!! Made some Polari badges ready for this week’s @smallpublishers.bsky.social! See you @conwayhall.bsky.social on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October!

9 GOLDEN RULES: READING POETRY IN PUBLIC A lovely Sunday afternoon spent making the perfect book for a poet’s pocket just in time for @smallpublishers.bsky.social! See you this week @conwayhall.bsky.social on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October!

also for the love of god do not bring up the rejection with the editor IN PERSON after running into them at an event or social function. unless you want to witness an editor's skeleton flee from its flesh.

Feeling despair about all the shit going on in the world lately and particularly in response to all the flags near us, we decided to paint hope all over our house. It’s so lovely to come home to and also to hear kids chanting ‘hope’ as they go past on the way to school.

Next week is the London launch of 'everything is so very much connected' an artist’s book resulting from a mail art collaboration with artist & writer Roelof Bakker at @smallpublishers.bsky.social with a reading 4pm on Friday 24 Oct, Green Room, Conway Hall, London. www.neg-press.com/product/ever...

One week to go! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube) Further details: smallpublishersfair.co.uk

This week @Waterstones are offering 25% discount on preorders for @BloodaxeBooks titles out in early 2026, including mine. Offer closes 17 October. Just go to waterstones.com, put 9781780377810 into the search box, click PREORDER and add code OCTOBER25 for the discount.

9 GOLDEN RULES: READING POETRY IN PUBLIC I’ve been thinking about making this little book for ages and having a stall at @smallpublishers.bsky.social is the impetus I’ve needed to get it finished! See you @conwayhall.bsky.social on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October!

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Today is Bookshop Day, a day to celebrate ALL bookshops on our high streets. Bookshops are an integral part of an author's livelihood, and we celebrate all the talented booksellers who share their guidance and expertise. Visit your local bookshop today and show them your support. #bookshopday

Based on the Wirral, @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is the imprint of queer poet and book artist Jeremy Dixon. Small runs often incorporate collage with the emphasis on handmade, happenstance, and recycling found text and images. We welcome him back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

Hannah Hull talking about Home is a place that visits me at @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social poetry salon last Saturday in #museuminthepark #stroud. Thanks to #dialectpress for organising . Up next free online launch this Thursday 6thOct 7pm www.outsavvy.com/event/29667/... @inpressbooks.bsky.social

"Mark paid careful attention to the small things in the world around him and he made each of us complicit in his process." Erica Van Horn on the much-missed artist Mark Pawson, a mainstay of the Fair, who passed away earlier this year. Read more about Mark: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/mark-pawson-...

Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds. Closing date: October 31st #PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry

Today is National Poetry Day - Jess & I will be taking over the national poetry day instagram 7-9pm answering your questions, reading poems and playing The Poetry Fruit Machine 🎰 🍒🍋💰

It's nearly time again ... If you've been looking for a home for that 'after' or ekphrastic poem, @afterpoetry.com is the place for you. Submissions reopen tomorrow – October 1st 2025. You then have the entire month to send in your poem for a chance to feature in After... in 2026. Good luck! 🤞🏼

Just a reminder that the Cafe Writers International poetry competition is open. Our wonderful (sole) judge this year is Jessica Mookherjee. Top prize is £1000 www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...

We are delighted to announce that we will publish @sachacoward.bsky.social’s Queer as Folklore in paperback and ebook editions in December 2025. Initially published by Unbound, it was longlisted for the 2025 Polari Prize and has been shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society awards. #booksky

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

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...

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.

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

Saturday 04/10/2026 10:30-12:00 Wirral Poetry Festival hosts Afonydd poets Sian Northey, Siôn Aled Owen, & Robbie Burton at Bebington Library, Civic Way Bebington Wirral CH63 7PN free, no booking required

We are preparing a new UK/RoI #queerpoetry anthology. Up//Roar: Poems of Queer Resistance. call out is live until 1st Nov. arachnepress.submittable.com/submit/33689... pls share with any #queerpoets you know @hazardpressuk.bsky.social is editing with me @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social is doing cover

Good morning. Together with @littletollerbooks.bsky.social we publish a very important book The destruction of our peat lands is of international concern. 40 nature writers incl. Rob Macfarlane - Amy Liptrot - Horatio Clare & music legend Patti Smith. You can order here: www.littletoller.co.uk

Make books. Make journals. Make chapbooks and zines and pretty letters. Make papercraft. Make beautiful things with words. Let no one take that from you. Make words.

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

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.

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com