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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social always make beautiful things but this set of three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg is just gorgeous. The accompanying postcards are going in a frame on the wall!

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A reminder that we're launching Fay Musselwhite's new collection in Sheffield on Wednesday (30 Sept): mostly booked, but there are still a few places available (see Eventbrite link below)

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Often on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Last few days for our 3-for-2 offer on 3 collections by Matthew Clegg: 'West North East', 'The Navigators', and 'Cazique' longbarrowpress.com/special-offe...

Two copies of 'The Navigators' by Matthew Clegg: one open, one closed.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lockdown walks along Sheffield's Rivelin Valley; haiku, prose poems and questions about attention, nature and connection. I've written about the process behind Have You Always Been Here? in a new blog post. Published by LongbarrowPress on 7 Sept. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you teach (or just enjoy) place-writing or creative non-fiction? Please check out my new book! It comes recommended by Iain Sinclair and @drdavidcooper.bsky.social so can’t be too dusty! Liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836240341

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Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry | Home

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer, editor and lecturer. Originally from Leicestershire, she has lived in Liverpool since 2000. She teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join us for a specially devised event to launch 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 30 September (7.30pm start) Upstairs at Shakespeare's, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...

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Fay Musselwhite presents 'The Gleaning'

Join us for the launch of the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Free entry; all welcome.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

From Eyes Front: Have You Always Been Here? Wringing each other – two sky-blue hospital gloves peeled off in the road. Early-morning mist: no view of the Casino and no hills beyond. A dip into chill – a fallen leaf has twisted to a clinch of frost. longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

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Poetry from the Edgelands

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Let’s find a glade where a thought might grow." Matthew Clegg in conversation with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, discussing the influence of Chinese poetry on 'Have You Always Been Here?' (out now from Longbarrow Press) twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/matt-clegg...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - photographed in a garden.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My poems. My partner's illustrations. They helped us through Covid. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social turned them into 3 beautiful pamphlets. We're small. No marketing. If they sell, Longbarrow can publish more poets. Share this post & you'll be helping more than us. longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/

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Tzu-Jan as Performance Outcome | Matthew Clegg Into every account mail is pinging: ‘we will secure our long-term future by competing on more fronts.’ Let’s find a glade where a thought might grow. …

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Flyer promoting the launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite in Sheffield on Wednesday 30 September

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you've a few pounds to spare and a hankering for a special book, something beautifully made and exquisitely written, take a look at the Longbarrow website and treat yourself. You'll be supporting a wonderful press that adds something necessary to the world. longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Welcome to the Longbarrow Press online shop. Payments are handled securely via PayPal (debit cards accepted via the ‘Check Out as a Guest’ option; no PayPal account required). All order…

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Impossible to overstate how much I value the existence of small presses like @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and their beautiful books and pamphlets, including these 3 by Matthew Clegg. They put me back in touch with myself and remind me of what I value - quiet time, paying attention, thoughtfulness.

Three poetry pamphlets by Matthew Clegg, each with a watercolour of a heron on the front. The Living; Crystal & Dust; Eyes Front

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. Three postcards (350gsm uncoated cardstock) accompanying three new pamphlets (Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living) by Matthew Clegg. Haiku on reverse. Have You Always Been Here? Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three postcards with watercolour artwork depicting herons.

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In this, my second post of August, I celebrate the good things that have happened over & around our house this summer @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

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Swift Diaries

Hope is the thing with feathers

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In this, my first post of August I write about the beginnings and ends of swift season and the time in between. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

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Swift Diaries

Time is what it is

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Loaded as it is with the means to bestow or withhold the elemental, a cloud is fragile too – all puffed up and overblown meringue whipped from stone. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

Five copies of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite against an orange background

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc... In this, the second post of the year, I reflect on the swift bricks that have packed in and around our house’s dirty face. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social

Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Swifts shape a fly-by, their high, riotous piercings, and one year’s shot past. My first Swift Diary of the year. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

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Swift Diaries

Where are you swifts?

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

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Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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Habitation: a Longbarrow Press reading

Habitation is a sequence of poems by Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite.

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Saunders Waterford Paper

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Habitation: a Longbarrow Press reading

Habitation is a sequence of poems by Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite.

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Dr Jo Maher NHS GP @drjomaher.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thank you @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for my Mother’s Day gift, can’t wait to read @debscohen.bsky.social

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

A fascinating book, and what makes it so rich and rewarding is its ground-level engagement with the particulars of place (and nice to see @petegreensolo.com's Sheffield Almanac mentioned, too). 40% off @thelrm.bsky.social's 'The Feminist Art of Walking' from Pluto: www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

Most of page 123 of 'The Feminist Art of Walking' by Morag Rose (Pluto Press, 2025), with an excerpt from 'Sheffield Almanac' by Pete Green:

The rivers, forever five rivers
Driving down through limestone, carving grit —
Every vista the city delivers
Forged at their silvering hand
And while kids strike out in creative
Trades their grandads, roiling over molten vats,
Wouldn’t’ve bloody dreamed of, the landscape’s native
Relief, scribed into five valleys, is the constant.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I fell in love with that word, Cazique, though I couldn’t find its meaning in any book my father owned. It broke the shackles in my brain: just thinking it or speaking it made me taller, other – simply more. 'Cazique' Matthew Clegg 50% off this weekend longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

A stack of copies of Matthew Clegg's third collection, 'Cazique'

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Dr Jo Maher NHS GP @drjomaher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Here we are on Pont Neuf in the sunshine! @cwjoneschris.bsky.social

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Dr Jo Maher NHS GP @drjomaher.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

A fabulous couple of days walking around Paris with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social I loved all the chairs in public parks, creating social spaces to chat & catch up. Fabulous public art & street scape of course, all best seen on foot! @livingstreets.bsky.social

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

'A city caught in the act of disappearing.' Available now: the second part of my conversation with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which he and I discuss his sequence 'Little Piece of Harm' (and other Longbarrow titles). twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/part-two-o...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The third and final thread in the 'Dutch River' series

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Chris's Two-Way Poetry Podcast is a brilliant series. Poets including Fay Musselwhite, Rob Hindle, Pete Green and others illuminating their own practice and those of others. This episode (Pt 1 of 2), with Brian Lewis & Chris discussing the links between their own work, is amazing.

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

this is smashing x

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Dr Jo Maher NHS GP @drjomaher.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Good listen & discussion on challenges of living with wildlife in urban areas, mention of swifts @cwjoneschris.bsky.social & badgers in cities, definitely a set not far from us in central #Sheffield with @rewildmystreet.bsky.social

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Rare Earth - Hiding in Plain Sight - BBC Sounds

A celebration of city wildlife from across the world.

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Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Short stories for your Christmas eve pleasure! I'm really proud of our Creative Writing students @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social for contributing such fantastic writing☺️I think @cwjoneschris.bsky.social will be proud too! www.spreaker.com/episode/smal...

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Small, Good Things. A Special Episode - A Small, Good Thing

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