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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 9h

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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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8h

Sheffield! Tonight!

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 9h

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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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 · 28/09/2026

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

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

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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

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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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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 · 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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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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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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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.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...

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

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Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

All this - plus tiny poems of distilled wonder. Whether they focus on beauty or squalor, the moment of noticing, the detail that takes you beyond yourself, is heart-stopping. Worth every penny even if the price was doubled.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"You lot deserve to be looked after. I know you're all ill!" In the throes of a horrible, debilitating cold (day four? day five?), I find solace in Mark E Smith's recipe for hot toddies, as recounted by @stephenhanley6.bsky.social in 'The Big Midweek'.

Excerpt from 'The Big Midweek' by Stephen Hanley. I'm rather poorly and lack the energy to type it out. Apologies.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

extremely beautiful and moving

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Local distribution, 23 September 2026. Seven miles, two and a half hours, two deliveries, half a city. A rerun of Friday's route, almost step for step, with fever, chills, fatigue. No sick leave with Longbarrow Press.

A map of west Sheffield with the publisher's route picked out in blue.

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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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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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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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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The title Have You Always Been Here? came from my partner, inspired by a heron we encountered on our walks. It's also a question that runs through the project itself: about attention, presence and what we fail to notice." Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - collectively titled 'Have You Always Been Here?'

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

Local distribution, 18 September 2026. Six miles, two hours, two deliveries, two rivers. A city at night. As the lights turn hostile. Soft rain continual.

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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 · 18/09/2026

Local distribution, 18 September 2026. Six miles, two hours, two deliveries, two rivers. A city at night. As the lights turn hostile. Soft rain continual.

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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...

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Pink Opaque 🩷🪩 @pinkopaque.co.uk · 18/09/2026

We are doing THIS, TONIGHT, in #Sheffield at 8:30, and (despite what the poster says) it is FREE TO GET IN!

Poster with the event title Rebel Amulets, and the text "raising awareness for mental health/Shakespeare's Friday 18 September 7pm/Posturing + Birdhouse + Pink Opaque + Ray Hearne"

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

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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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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'manuscript', 1999 Manifold, p.101 colinsackett.co.uk/manifoldonline.php

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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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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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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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Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just arrived. Another beautifully packaged publication from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social The trio of pamphlets and postcards entitled “Have you always been here?” by Matthew Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social Looking forward to reading.

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

When the heron preens delicate wisps of feather melt into light. 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...

A hand holding three postcards with watercolour artwork depicting herons.

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

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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 · 14/09/2026

I keep forgetting that I have jury service next month. I'm not entirely sure how to 'prepare', other than by watching 50-year-old episodes of Crown Court on YouTube

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Haiku from my Covid 19 sequence, Eyes Front Cycling into work he coughs, then glances at me – regretting hi-vis? In the mini skip – a cracked TV, reflecting the walls of its cell. An elderly face peers from a dormer window – yesterday, today. longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

'I was mindful not to let the names place themselves in front of the living presence of the birds. That presence mattered more to me – even as it flitted beyond my powers of representation.' Haiku, lockdown walks, extending the duration of attention. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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