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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's nearly upon us! Record what you're doing on your phone at 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet! Get in touch if you'd like to be in! 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...

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Be part of a film!

An invitation!

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Record what you're doing on our phone 5.35pm BST on Friday 2 October and be part of an international collage of one minute on the planet 📽️ ⏱️ 🌍 adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...

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Be part of a film!

An invitation!

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An experiment in recording what happens in one minute -- please consider being part of this! adamsmyth.substack.com/p/be-part-of...

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Be part of a film!

An invitation!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Thanks to the urbane people at @thetls.bsky.social for this nice piece about INSCRIPTION 6 (on cuts and tears), including the great Buzz Spector ripping up pages.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I have just received my copy of Issue 6 of @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social - surely the most material of all texts, look at these glorious THINGS! This issue contains my article on J. L. Carr's (yes, the 'Month in the Country' author, also publisher & artist) pocketbook of 'The Reeves Tale'.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Posting out INSCRIPTION number 6 (on tears and cuts)! A few copies left -- via inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Alas, I am missing the @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Issue 6: Cuts/Tears launch tonight, but my spirit is there as I celebrate a home! The latest issue has lots of ✂️cutting edge🔪 articles, and my piece 'Cut, Pasted and Pocketed: J.L. Carr’s Chaucer Pocketbook' inscriptionjournal.com/issue-6/

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Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An incredible article by @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social in @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social alongside some inspiring pieces. Inscription is probably the coolest journal around and Eleanor highlights some crafty Chaucerian medievalism!

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Come along on Wednesday at 6pm at Waterstone's, Cambridge to hear the mysterious, incorrigibly plural "Frances Wise" in conversation with @katesawyer.bsky.social about The Book Game. Readings, Q&A, signings: the full literary trimmings. @chloehouston.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

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An Evening with Frances Wise | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones

Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An Evening with Frances Wise today.

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hello! Does anyone know any stimulating criticism on reading or producing mirror image / reversed text (printed or handwritten) or images -- from any discipline?

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Inscription issue 6 launches on 22nd June! Come and join us to celebrate. There'll be performances and refreshments and much cutting and tearing. Attendance is free but registration is compulsory. Find out more and reserve your place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inscriptio...

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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Our next talk! All welcome! Dr Alice Wickenden, The 'sticky' materiality of early-modern book provenances. A discussion of deletions of ownership inscriptions in early-modern books. Thur 21 May, 5.15pm. Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College, Oxford + live on zoom (email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Re-reading books: a mini essay (ft. EM Forster, Jane Austen, Moldova) open.substack.com/pub/adamsmyt...

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Re-reading

It’s an odd temporal tumbling, re-reading a book you read a long time ago.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

INSCRIPTION is a labour of love. We don't make a penny from it: all income is put back in to INSCRIPTION. But costs are rising! If you felt able to donate: amazing. Online free open access inscriptionjournal.com Hard copies to buy inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Help raise £5000 to support education – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to support education. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

We are delighted to be able to offer small grants to support exciting research!

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It's 13 March day! If you'd like a free copy of my prose collage of one day from the past -- 13 March 1911 -- send me a DM and I'll see what I can do. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

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Small found dogs

Adam Smyth’s new book, 13 March 1911, takes an experimental approach to (auto)biography. A verbal collage, it consists of textual fragments documenting various events and announcements that took place...

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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Our next event! Sarah Cusk and Sophie Floate, Printed books from the libraries of some Oxford humanists Thursday 12th March, 5:15pm, Lower Lecture Theatre, Berrow Foundation Building, @lincoln.ox.ac.uk With a small exhibition! In-person only: book via email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk.

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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

OBS / Lincoln College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Call for papers! INSCRIPTION 7 (out 2027) will be all about BLANKS. It will be (as ever) a BEAUTIFUL and MAXIMAL object. Send us your ideas! Historical / theoretical / creative / creative-critical -- or some strange blend. First step: 400-word proposal + brief CV by 1 April 2026. CFP attached.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Inscription 6 on TEARS & RIPS will be out in early summer. Pre-order now at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy Artists in issue 6: Bas Jan Ader, I'm too sad to tell you, 1970, © MoMA / Scala Dave Beech, When News Hit Shore, 2023 Stephen Emmerson, Holes, 7" vinyl record, 2026...

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Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Grants! We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026. Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

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Grants

Previous grant recipients If you would like to help us support early career scholars in bibliography, please email our Treasurer (treasurer@oxbibsoc.org.uk) to discuss how you can help. Any donatio…

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

What are the best 2nd-hand bookshops in the UK -- if by 'best' I mean shops that tend towards (1) interestingly curated stock (2) atmosphere (bit messy, bit tumbled down -- but a place you want to be in) (3) knowledgeable staff who add something (4) inspiring. Trying to make a list!

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list" -- worth your time, from Adam Smyth, who lists all the stuff he dropped or which didn't work adamsmyth.substack.com/p/abandoned-...

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Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list

[This is an updated version of the original from 2021.]

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Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Wonderful surprise in the post from @adamwithbooks.bsky.social , his gorgeous book of, about and around a single date. Fascinating and beautiful thing.

Plain brown cover with 13 March 1911 by Adam Smyth.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Delighted to see INSCRIPTION given a prominent place at Bookmorphs - terrific new exhibition on artists' books @hellenicentre helleniccentre.org/event/bookmo... INSCRIPTION 1, 2, + 3 are sold out & out of print. A few copies of 4 and 5 are left - snap them up via inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK – Hellenic Centre

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK – Hellenic Centre

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rowena-hughes.bsky.social @rowena-hughes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK 14 October - 28 November @joedevlin.bsky.social @sarahbodman.bsky.social @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social The Hellenic Centre 16 - 18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS Curated by Fiona Mouzakitis & Despina Stavrou,Christina Mitrentse

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Get reading! All the texts from issue 5 of INSCRIPTION: THE JOURNAL OF MATERIAL TEXT are online and downloadable for free at inscriptionjournal.com We are a double-blind peer reviewed, green open access journal. Published by Information as Material in a partnership with Leeds Beckett University

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

A reminder that THIS is coming up next month. A week-long deep dive into the artists' book, with some amazing guest speakers and visits to key collections. Places still available so PLEASE SHARE!!! 16-20th June, London Rare Books School Book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/london-rare-...

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

LAST CHANCE to sign up for this, on 23rd May! A hands-on study day in UCL special collections, exploring their most experimental magazines, from the Modernist avant-garde to the mimeo revolution. ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

INSCRIPTION 5 launch! If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by. (a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Attention friends and supporters of Inscription Journal: Issue 5 on 'containers' is HERE. We will be celebrating in fine style amid the marble pillars of Senate House, Bloomsbury. Please come and join us. 14th May. Dress code: casual/cardboard box. Register here: tinyurl.com/Inscriptionlaunch

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Come and get your fingers inky. Just a few days left to register for this study day at UCL special collections. We'll be getting hands on with mimeo, lo-fi and DIY mags from the 60s and 70s. Please pass on the word! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

A lightning flick through some of the amazing experimental magazines we'll be exploring in this one day course, coming up THIS MONTH on 23rd May: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz... Places still available but booking ends soon so be quick.

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Inscription issue 5 has landed! It's all about CONTAINERS, and it has articles, artworks, and STUFF. Snap up a copy before they are all gone ... inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

It’s 13 March day! If you’d like a free copy of my collage-of-one-day-from-the-past, let me know and I’ll post you 13 MARCH 1911 (unless I am besieged). www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat... books-on-books.com/2020/11/12/b...

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Bookmarking Book Art – Adam Smyth

13 March 1911 (2019) 13 March 1911 (2019) Adam Smyth Perfect bound paperback. H175x W115 mm, 64 pages. Edition of 500. Acquired from Information as Material, 10 October 2020. Although unremarkable …

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Jean-Philippe Échard @echardjp.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

... so happy to co-sign with Marie Radepont @crc-recherche.bsky.social and Étienne Anheim @crhehess.bsky.social an essay which is part of this issue @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social. Printed in a limited number of copies... don't wait if you want to have one!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Issue 5 on containers is imminent! 'Containers' considered via ESSAYS and FICTION (Joanna Kavenna) and ART WORKS (Erica Baum, Daniel Buren, Jeremy Deller, Harold Offeh + others) Pre-order before they're all gone at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Editorial meeting with Gill, Adam and Simon working on layout of Inscription number 5, on containers. Advance orders inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

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Marianne Noël @mnoel75.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

J'adore

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Vincent Debiais @vincentdebiais.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

C'est quand même rassurant de voir la quantité de choses belles, intelligentes, intéressantes qui se font; et qui se font malgré tout, quand même, tant pis et tant mieux. Avis #MedievalSky : appel pour le prochain numéro de @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social sur les coupes et les déchirures. 👇

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers -- cut up. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Inscription issue 6 (out spring 2026) is all about cuts / tears. Here is our call for papers. Talk to us if you have an idea for an article!

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