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Poetry as a form of attention practice. Three pamphlets exploring how careful noticing can deepen our relationship with place, time and the more-than-human world. Have You Always Been Here? @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 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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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt

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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A perfect Sunday morning ... starting to read these beautifully illustrated pamphlets by @eyesfront.bsky.social - published and hand delivered with care by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

A photograph of three poetry pamphlets by Matthew Clegg on a small wooden table. The cover of each pamphlet features a different sketch of a heron.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mine arrived this week and they're beautiful; the place names sprinkled through the verse bringing back many memories of late teen/student 'adventures' in and around Sheffield.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last day for our special offer. If you've enjoyed the poems in 'Have You Always Been Here?', you'll enjoy these too

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Buying an ice cream at Yorkshire Miners' Gala, June 1984, photo by Brenda Prince.

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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 · 28/09/2026

Written during and after the pandemic, these poems begin with confinement and move towards attention, encounter and belonging. Not a project about escape, but about learning to be present. Have You Always Been Here? @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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

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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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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, publications are good or whatever but have you ever seen a photograph of a dog enjoying your exhibition? Priceless.

Cloth exhibition panels hang in pairs from beams in Cromford Mills. A man and a greyhound are walking between them.

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tollerlover05.bsky.social @tollerlover05.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I froze my ankles off shooting this 🤣 Beautiful Lake Huron ❤️ I was born, bred, and water fed. This is the lake that built me ☺️

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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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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Boys playing marbles, Leeds, 1962, photo by Paul Berriff.

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#Poetry #Painting #BlueWhisperingDay No doubt: I am here, loving this tender moment yet it will not last. - Matsuo Basho 🎨 Hiroo Isono

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What if wonder isn't rare? What if it's in a river whorl, a pigeon’s wingbeat, a frost-curled leaf? Have You Always Been Here? explores the extraordinary hidden inside ordinary days. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Suiseki (水石) are small naturally occurring or shaped rocks which are appreciated for their aesthetic or decorative value. It's also the name of the art of arranging them into meaningful forms. [📸 Szilajka Erzsébet] Original post

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Atwood has spent much of her career examining the implications of societies that allow their freedoms & ecosystems to erode. But she is also a critic of those who neglect the relationship between humans & the natural world, cautioning that neglecting one can have dire consequences for the other 1/3

Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This collection is a true collaboration. My partner's illustrations. Brian Lewis's impeccable design and production scrupulosity. The happenstance of North Sheffield, filtered through Japanese forms. And I promise, no order is more carefully packaged than orders from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Second rehearsal for this event tonight. I love the poem I've been asked to read. 'Early Riser' carries the spirit of John Clare to South Yorkshire, or maybe it finds it was already there, fighting for its life!

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can spend days being pulled towards the next notification, the next headline. Have You Always Been Here? asks: what happens when we stay put long enough to notice what's already there? A new pamphlet sequence from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

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

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The bicycling Heron, the angler, and the Queen Mary. Not a typical Heronscene.

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fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Money flees the scenes of its crimes, bolts to its pile on the upland plains to laze on the plumpest cerulean upholstery, warding off gravity with icons and charms lifted from ancient tapestry tales. ~ We launch The Gleaning on Wed 30th Sep. See below for details. Do come

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back home and these delights are waiting for me "Have You Always Been Here?" @eyesfront.bsky.social With lovely note from Brian at @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Will be listening to the podcast on podbean.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not every book sounds like every other. '...a force of merging furies like a riptide is unleashed. Amy gets on board, rides her mind's muscle long gush of sinuous weft & warp relishing the onslaught, she freestyles the rush Until it is the only thought.' From, The Gleaning @fayay.bsky.social

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - arranged on a garden table.

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Enchantment, Tolkien argues, is a fusion of ruth and delight — in other words, a capacity for feeling life deeply in its full range." See also @hookland.bsky.social on "Re-enchantment Is Resistance," because resistance relies on the ability to feel. www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/15/t...

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J.R.R. Tolkien on How to Fall in Love with Life

In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) to write an introduction to George MacDonald’s The Golden Key, which he had praised in Tree and Leaf &…

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Jurassic Park Was a Warning About A.I. 'Efficiency and its sister word productivity is spoken of in hallowed tones across the world' www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyOF...

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

If the storm of progress seems, by now, a Category 5 hurricane, and our world a flooded detention center, Graham knows the poet’s job is still to “speak”—even “from a cage” amid other “cages.” calirb.com/killing-spre...

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Killing Spree by Jorie Graham

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Laura Mullen “Then the rain came and we thought it / might clean us. / It did not clean us.” In his Theses on History, Walter Benjamin described a painting by P…

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

For a long time, social anxiety was seen as something purely in the mind – a reflection of personality, rather than biology. New studies suggest that the condition may be rooted in changes within the brain, and even the gut... www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/we...

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We may finally know what really causes social anxiety – and how to reverse it | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Social anxiety isn’t only psychological. New research is revealing its biological roots – and how to reset them

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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last night, an exhibition I've been working on was launched at Cromford Mills in Derbyshire to mark 250 years since building of 2nd mill (blue print for cotton factories worldwide) and early industrial housing. It's open all weekend, with lots of activities. Critique my graphic design efforts!

Exhibition panels printed on cotton fabric hanging in pairs down a mill building from wooden ceiling beams. On the front panels the date 1776 and 'Why did cotton come to Cromford' are legible.

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

But if you study the logistics And heuristics of the mystics You will find that their minds rarely move in a line... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YitV...

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Brian Eno - Backwater

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

I bought this on Thursday. Half way through. Not read anything quite like it. Nope. Nothing quite like it -

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

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune... Just a poem. An old one. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/...

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The World Is Too Much With Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our…

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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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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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Publications

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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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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

Rebel Amulets: a free event at Shakespeares, Sheffield (146-148 Gibraltar Street, S3 8UB), this Saturday (19 September), with an excellent line-up including a set from @petegreensolo.com. Organised by Longbarrow co-founder Karl Hurst, so the set times are anyone's guess. It'll be good. All welcome.

Flyer advertising Rebel Amulets at Shakespeares, Sheffield, Sat 19 September, 2pm, free entry

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A macho culture of performative selfishness might start on the roads, through racing, rolling coal, ever bigger SUVs ... But it doesn't end there. If we want to live in a decent country which values human life, we need to change this culture. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity? | George Monbiot

In towns and in the countryside, I see 4x4s and pick up trucks driven without care or consicence. It’s a Magafication of transport, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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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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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fab, Heron on display in The Duncairn; one of the works produced by parents and carers - a community wellbeing project hosted by the Reach Out Healthy Living Centre. #Belfast

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

West Yorkshire, 1980s, photo by Geoff Howard.

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

Should be a fine-crafted launch of a fine-crafted book. If you care about democracy, working class history, nature connection, or social justice, this will sing!

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Should be a fine-crafted launch of a fine-crafted book. If you care about democracy, working class history, nature connection, or social justice, this will sing!

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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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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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Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

These arrived yesterday. They are beautiful and I was so drawn in that I read them all last night. The herons, haikus and the REF. I will return to them again and again.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 14/09/2026

Turns out "The Cloud" is a big, noisy, environmentally damaging shed, that no one wants anywhere near them. In the latest episode of “What’s the Point?” co-CEO Richard Denniss explores the inconvenient truths about where our data is going. #auspol

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