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Habitation: poems on the theme of land/class/nature with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite. Part of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics reading series at the University of Sheffield. Wed 2 December The Diamond, Sheffield, S3 7RD Free entry, all welcome

Habitation: poems on the theme of land/class/nature with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite. Part of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics reading series at the University of Sheffield. Wed 2 December The Diamond, Sheffield, S3 7RD Free entry, all welcome

"Land, class and nature run through these poems like family threads or mineral deposits." 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Journey through the Yorkshire Dales like never before with Scores for Walking; my constantly evolving text-based projection launching this week during Light Night Leeds 28 October 2026 to 29 October 2026, 6pm-9.30pm. Free. find it at Botany House, LS2 9JT openup.leeds.ac.uk/events/light...

Look, badness is easy to have, you can take it by handfuls Without effort. The road that way is smooth and starts here beside you. But between us and virtue the immortals have put what will make us Sweat. The road to virtue is long... Works and Days, Hesiod tr. Richard Lattimore

Like holding a young child on a wall to see the sea for the first time, at dawn, the world’s thought-task, vast, and simple, and irreversible. 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Four walks in four seasons: south to north, west to east, east to west, north to south. Of time and the Dutch River. 1: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river 2: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere... 3: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero 4: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/to-scale

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In sleep, in dream song, the daylight ghosts are laid and trouble us no more. In silence nightlong a life’s debts are paid at the open door. 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

🚨 New on Substack, my review of the artist Stephen Willats' council estate artworks: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/book-revie...

You can find us at two book fairs next month: Northern Publishers’ Fair, Manchester Central Library​ Sat 14 November Sheffield Winter Book Fair, The Mowbray, Neepsend, Sheffield Sat 28 November Admission to both fairs is free. Further details: longbarrowpress.com/events/

One of the strangest moments of lockdown: a hand-chalked sign at Walkley Cemetery. "TURN AROUND AND GO HOME" The next day the sign was in the mud. A dog had relieved itself on the words. From Have You Always Been Here? longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

One of those weeks in which running a small press is like standing inside a carrier bag and trying to lift yourself up by the handles

The lightbulb shattered across the pavement has been trodden to stardust. Now the gates are locked, molehills on the playground grass aren’t kicked or trampled. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

'The books of the Merit Students Encyclopedia were uniform in size. The volumes were divided by words, not letters, and the words were printed on the spine. BAT CAIRO. CLOISTER DIGITALIS. MASS MUSES. When I was old enough to open the books I reached for REVERE SHINTO.'

"Have You Always Been Here? emerged through walking with another person. My partner's way of seeing birds, insects and overlooked details changed how I paid attention, and ultimately changed the poems themselves."  Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. 'Have You Always Been Here?': a new post on the Longbarrow Press site longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

This suffering world - a long-uprooted tree must relinquish its bark. The bank is heavy - I’m looking up into roots holding like a scrum. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Coming next month

Two weeks of jury service has changed my perspective on and relationship to the city. The working city. On Tuesday I departed from the lunchtime route that I had laid down the week before. I'd forgotten that Wheats Lane opens onto Paradise Square. We led a poetry walk through this ginnel in 2009.

Medals of sun-glare highlight the cladding of the distant high-rise. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

These poets offer deep interiority, existential questioning, spiritual focus. In an automated age driven by speed, efficiency & data-ism, Donne challenges us with turbulent self-scrutiny; Herbert offers a quiet grammar of grace, attention, and human scale.

Two weeks of jury service has changed my perspective on and relationship to the city. The working city. On Tuesday I departed from the lunchtime route that I had laid down the week before. I'd forgotten that Wheats Lane opens onto Paradise Square. We led a poetry walk through this ginnel in 2009.

There's some great lines in @eyesfront.bsky.social's poetic journal of lockdown walks. This one that really got me: A lone wren darts between the branches — one celebratory neuron, working through every variation of thought, scared away by its own reverberation. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Pristine allotment – a zen path is laid in slate and curated stones. Oddly comforting: the scent of his tobacco - another decade. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Local distribution, 19 October 2026. Two miles out. Several Longbarrow titles donated to the bookshelves of the jurors' common waiting area at Sheffield Crown Court. Five hours of jury service. Two miles back.

Bulleting finches jostle inside the ribcage of cherry blossom. A bird on the weir – dabbing its tail in the lip, annotating fall. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Every walk contains its ghosts. Someone repeatedly encountered during lockdown became part of our remembered landscape, then disappeared. “Blessings on her… her devotion to herons, and to morning light.” Have You Always Been Here? @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Local distribution, 19 October 2026. Two miles out. Several Longbarrow titles donated to the bookshelves of the jurors' common waiting area at Sheffield Crown Court. Five hours of jury service. Two miles back.

You can find us at two book fairs next month: Northern Publishers’ Fair, Manchester Central Library​ Sat 14 November Sheffield Winter Book Fair, The Mowbray, Neepsend, Sheffield Sat 28 November Admission to both fairs is free. Further details: longbarrowpress.com/events/

Order arrived this week ftom @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and they are beautiful. Thank you. Can't wait to read.

Squirrel-proof feeders loose a volley of finches to greet our laughter. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

In ‘Walking Into Shelta’, the speaker follows 3 teenagers into a traveller camp, becoming aware of the limits of his own understanding. Curiosity, humility, self-interrogation. Not every landscape belongs to you. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

A white van unlocks before its driver-to-be even leaves the house. The maroon trainers and the matching maroon gloves of the twins, jogging. An open garage – a whiff of sweat from the hulk grunting his deadlifts. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

A polythene bag photodegrading into a mecca of thorns. The broken branches are leaning against boughs that are leaning on light. All the shops are closed: It’s time to focus on what we already own. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

An alarm from a far-reversing lorry keened above the thickening soup of traffic blah. A landfill gull cried brazenly – wing-span taut as it carved down sky, beak gaping. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Do buy this! If only for the heron postcards (just joking) - and especially if you're a fan of haiku.

“...a rich, thought-provoking book, perhaps unique in both its specificity and breadth.” Available in the UK from our website, or worldwide from Blackwell's (with modest postage). blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Don Valley to Wardsend Cemetery. Pylons & landfill gulls to bees hanging from ragwort. Have You Always Been Here? maps an unofficial Sheffield often absent from media but rich in life. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Four days as a dishwasher in the canteen of a chemicals firm in a nondescript business park on the outskirts of Swindon. I was dismissed for being 'too thorough'.

And so ends the first week of our kitchen refurb (several years overdue). On Tuesday, we found a hellmouth under the sink. On Wednesday, we located the bodged plumbing that gave rise to unsightly damp. Earlier today, we discovered a void behind a false plasterboard wall. I decided to investigate.