The first three that came to mind were Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and Bleak House by Charles Dickens... but then I immediately wanted to change my mind 🙁 There are a huge number of excellent books in the replies!

Bristol Artist’s Book Event is Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2026, 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome An international event showcasing artists’ books to the public. Special guests from Japan bringing bookworks and the Kujibiki Drawing project. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

@subvert.fm launches today! A new music platform, collectively owned. A great alternative to the corporate owned music platforms. I'm on there: www.subvert.fm/smokingdrum Hopefully many more will join. #music

Sitting in the Silence #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative #grief

'Hare and Bluebells' linocut by printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #womensart #Spring

Winchester Print Fair is next weekend! We are very nearly ready, just got to assemble the sign and print a few things out. Alice did flyering yesterday in Winchester and spoke to lots of people who are coming. Looking forward very much to seeing all of you who are coming next weekend!

Call for exhibitors - Athens Art Book Fair: The ABBF is an artist-run organisation devoted to artist publishing. Our international art book fair happens once a year and hosts artists, publishers, zinesters and anything in-between from Greece and abroad. Deadline to apply 31 May. athensartbookfair.gr

There are still a few tickets left for both our online and in-person reading groups next week! Led by poet Julia Bird, these sessions will explore the new writing published in the Spring Issue of The Poetry Review. Except conversation, insight, and lots of poetry! Tickets available in our bio.

Just replaced my rusty old website with a shiny new one. Not a task I relished but a welcome distraction from the state of things. www.johnaltringham.co.uk #art #WoodEngraving #prints #mountains #landscape #nature #Scotland #Yorkshire #Northumberland

Finished my Robin Hood's Bay print. #printmaking #screenprint

I've been honoured to work with the inspirational @povertytruthscot.bsky.social & @thebinkshub.bsky.social to support creative work that communicates their relational approach to anti-poverty work. 'Come Away In' exhibition 19th–22nd May | From 12pm Byres Community Hub, Glasgow All warmly welcome!

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The Royal Society of Printmakers has a show at the Bankside Gallery next to Tate Modern in London at the moment. I have two linocut prints included in the exhibition alongside many other fine printmakers covering a complete spectrum of printmaking processes. #printmakers #RE #linocut #printartists

Varvara Stepanova, 'Family' (1920)

If you are interested there is an excellent display of about twenty David Lucas mezzotints made in conjunction with John Constable at the V&A. Based on Constable's paintings but extraordinarily contemporary looking in their execution. Not getting much publicity but well worth a visit.

My @photoworks-uk.bsky.social pamphlet, Persona Digitalia, is on display at the V&A South Kensington as part of David Solo’s PhotoPoetry exhibition and reading room on until 20th September. Read more about the exhibition here: www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/... photoworks.org.uk/shop/p5-vik-...

These are bound for INK PAPER AND PRINT at Lewes Town Hall Saturday 2nd May 10.30 to 4.30. Book free tickets in advance on Eventbrite. Or £2 on the door. I’ll have books, cards, prints, boxes and collages.

collaged monoprint #michelebrownart #michelebrownearthpainter #landscapeart #collage #monoprint

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. ⛰️📚

Lill Tschudi, Swiss (1911-2004), Bells, 1937, linocut in colors on thin paper, 25 x 28 cm, edition 14/50, private collection

I recently finished a set of #ReductionLinocuts of the last #BottleKilns from the Twyfords factory site in #StokeOnTrent from photos I took in 2006. The site has now been redeveloped with housing around these kilns. I've written a longer post about it here: open.substack.com/pub/dailawyr... #art

hello—on Monday 20 April @curzon.com Soho is showing Lost For Words, a beautiful film about language, nature & hope based on The Lost Words by me & Jackie Morris. Jackie & I will both be there for a Q&A. Please let others know who might be interested—& come join us! www.curzon.com/films/lost-f...

📢 Public Artwork Commission Opportunity! We are looking for an east London based artist to design an original artwork to be displayed in a permanent outdoor public location on the Queen Mary Mile End Campus. Submit an expression of interest by 5pm, Thurs 23 April. www.qmul.ac.uk/publicengage...

An event this weekend at Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG, UK, organised by the Hay Letterpress Guild. Their inaugural Printers' Fair is a Celebration of Print Making & Associated Arts, Saturday, 11th April 2026, 10-4, free, all welcome. www.hayletterpressguild.org

First of two layers. I’m not sure about this one. #davidwellerart #printmaking #reliefprint #linoprint #artistsoninstagram

Linocut. Melvyn-Evans 'Ancient song' contemporary work #linocutartists

Ann Burnham, “Woodland Trees.” #printmaking #linocut #contemporary #AnnBurnham

"Morning Light" by Grace Gillespie, UK-based artist specialising in reduction linocuts, hand-crafted in her home-studio in Bristol #WomensArt

✂️ 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’re backing a National Commission on electoral reform. If we reach 100,000 signatures, Parliament must debate it. It’s just launched, so every signature counts. Sign and share 👇 🔗 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... #FairVotes

Poisson d'Avril! 🐟 A collection of my sardine prints for April 1st. #art #linocut #illustrator #popart

Some linocuts I have done recently for a project. #art #printmaking #illustration

#MartaWakulaMac #Poland #Contemporary Marta Wakula-Mac DUBLIN PORT, 2006 Linocut on paper

1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing? The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise. A thread. 🧵👇

I eventually ended up with four versions of my #linocut The last two remaking kilns from the former Twyfords factory in Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent, from my photo in 2006. They’re reductions, just using one piece of lino. #BottleKiln #printmaking #StokeOnTrent #Twyfords

Issue #2 of the THE VISUAL POETRY TIMES! new from @heyastranaut.bsky.social's Poetry Kiosk, order your copy today!: www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page/the-visual-poetry-times

Vote for your fave piece in our 8th issue! It's the Readers' Choice Award! Read the issue here: engineidling.net/current and then fill out this Google Form: forms.gle/heXfEAHqNAqc...!

Submissions are open! Delighted to be a judge for Natasha Carthew & Octopus Books’ Common Ground Nature Writing Prize, for writers self-identifying as working class. 1,000 words or less, in any form & great prizes! Further details & link to submit, here: www.octopusbooks.co.uk/landing-page...

#Glasgow and other excellent people Please sign this petition. An arts venue which was purpose built to be an arts venue has quadrupled its rent and is evicting Glasgow’s: - print studio - photography gallery - film making charity - a kinetic theatre And LOADS more artists c.org/YJSxDN8GDp

Making monoprints today #michelebrownart #michelebrownearthpainter #monoprinting #printmaking #landscapeart

"The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout." @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres | #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

The New School of the Anthropocene is an experimental micro-university, which offers an affordable, radical, alternative to mainstream higher ed. I teach there each year & we have students from Gaza, Ukraine & around the world. 2026 enrolment is now open. www.nsota.org @nsota.bsky.social

Somewhere in amongst all the glories of this issue is a little piece of mine.

Bread Line New York, by Clare Leighton, 1932.

The first five were brilliant, I've no doubt these will match or exceed them.

This sentence dropped me into a rage: “while recognising AI models need to be trained on work such as writing, music and video.” They don’t. There is no “need”. Writing, music and video are created by human beings. Not AI. We DO NOT NEED AI to make these things. Stop feeding AI stolen art.

Linocut. TheTrainingGround (detail) - Jeff Perks 2009 #linocutartists

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 🗻⛰️

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...