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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Combining lyric poems, prose poems & haibun, Have You Always Been Here? traces moments of encounter with landscape, creatures, & everyday wonder. Small acts of attention. Lingering questions. Larger uncertainties. Froglets. Moorhens. Herons. Light. 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 · 19/04/2025

Sky darkens bright with ancient light from uncountable pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space, swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel slips off, begins to make her way downstream. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Five copies of 'Eely' by Steve Ely, spines facing outwards.

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Neal Romanek @nromanek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well into poet Steve Ely's stunning book Eely by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. An epic poetic riff on eels - and eelishness - and their lives and everything their lives touch & signify & portend, past, present & future. And I can't stop thinking it's a must-read for @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My partner gave me the title: Have You Always Been Here? A question addressed to landscape, memory, birdsong, trees, silence and perhaps even a care-attentive part of the self. A new 3-part poetry sequence from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Agreed! Utterly beautiful and instantly re-readable. Congratulations @eyesfront.bsky.social and @longbarrowpress.bsky.social a publishing highlight for 2026!

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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm excited to be organising this two-day symposium with @janesamuels.bsky.social - The Nature Within - keynote from @pollyrowena.bsky.social - details at www.thenaturewithin.co.uk

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The Nature Within

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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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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When you get mail from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 💃😍💃 Look at the beauty & details of these three pamphlets that comprise Matthew Clegg's Have You Always Been Here!!! #poetry #bookSky 📚💙 & 💙💙💙

Three pamphlets each with different animal prints overlapping on wooden surface. One open to interior cover, one front cover, one backcover

Three postcards with heron prints arranged on same surface & a small brochure below that celebrates the press's 20th anniversary. It has a photograph of an arched structure and people along it as cover.

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fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thanks to everyone who took part and who came to this. So moved by your support. Hope you enjoy reading The Gleaning

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Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are still a few places left on my online creative writing (poetry) short course, ‘Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition’. More information and booking details can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-b...

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Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition

A creative writing (poetry) course of 5 workshops in which participants will devise their own bespoke forms for poems and sequences.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hope to make it, if I can extricate myself from jury service and/or kitchengeddon

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The chef, Karl Hurst, co-founded Longbarrow Press with me, and is an excellent photographer (and excellent chef)

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How do we reconnect with the living world when so much of modern life keeps us indoors, online, & fixed to screens? This sequence follows paths through river valleys, reservoir perimeters, & overlooked spaces where attention becomes a form of belonging longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Beautiful books 👇

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

SCORES FOR WALKING, a new digital text piece launching at Light Night, Leeds 28-29 November openup.leeds.ac.uk/events/light...

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Light Night Leeds: Scores for Walking

Journey through the Yorkshire Dales like never before with J.R. Carpenter’s Scores for Walking; a...

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In an age of acceleration, optimisation, and endless scrolling, slowness can feel radical. Linger. Listen. Look again. Have You Always Been Here? from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 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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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Upcoming event: Between Reading and Looking: Women to Watch, Tate Britain, 23 October 2026, 14.00–17.00. Panel discussion and display focusing on women and artists' books. Tamsin Green, Larissa Nowicki, Batool Showghi, Rachel Smith, Francisca Prieto, Welmoet Wartena. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The elegance and glamour of small press publishing. This is what happens when your house is also a warehouse. Buy some books so that I can navigate a way out of this increasingly cramped space

Boxes upon boxes and furniture upon furniture

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The elegance and glamour of small press publishing. This is what happens when your house is also a warehouse. Buy some books so that I can navigate a way out of this increasingly cramped space

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Delighted to announce that Longbarrow HQ is exhibiting 'Kitchen', a new installation by Rachel Whiteread, comprising 46,829 fittings, doors, cabinets, etc, stacked from floor to ceiling. Hillsborough, Sheffield, 3rd October - 47th Julember.

Assorted heaps of kitchen units in my front room

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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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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks, Mary. The artist is Matt's partner (she's mentioned in the blog post above), who currently operates anonymously, hence the absence of credits!

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Pink Opaque 🩷🪩 @pinkopaque.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Next up for Pink Opaque: our first ever headline slot 🤩 and it's free to get in! Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield Wednesday 7 October So excited to have the brilliant Ladies Nite coming over from Leeds for this as well as local hero My Lo-fi Heart 🩷🪩 Book at www.fatsoma.com/e/fnl3ronx/p...

Poster for the show with a photo of Danielle and Pete performing on stage, singing and playing synth. Both have one arm aloft, Danielle's right and Pete's left, so it's kind of symmetrically jubilant.

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Matt Clegg @eyesfront.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite in Sheffield last night. Over 60 in attendance (and more turned away at the door). Special thanks to Matthew Clegg, Naomi Frisby, Ray Hearne, Rob Hindle and Karl Hurst for lending their voices.

Fay Musselwhite reading at the launch of 'The Gleaning', as photographer Karl Hurst looks on.

Ray Hearne leads the chorus in a performance of Musselwhite's "Reform Is Here'. On stage: Karl Hurst, Naomi Frisby, Rob Hindle, Ray Hearne, Matthew Clegg.

Roughly two-thirds of the audience, pictured during the interval.

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

meanwhile, this sonnet and all the code that surrounds it will soon see the light of day. 10 November. more on this soon #nationalpoetryday

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're missing out! Don't be left behind! And, so you don't miss out, we're going to install all these great tools in every device & program you use, and make it virtually impossible to disable them, not unlike sellotaping random garden implements to your fingers every time you try to type an email

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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was a lovely evening - musical and powerful words, rooted in place and community, from @fayay.bsky.social's new collection, beautifully read by the poet herself and other voices.

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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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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Their finest hour! Pinball Machine, Mollusc in Tyrol, and many, many more

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Steak Place still makes me chuckle, though

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mine was The Frenz Experiment. Imagine my disappointment

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

Thanks, Jay. The trackable services (for larger items, e.g. a couple of books) from the UK to the US are actually cheaper than the non-trackable services. Let me know what you're interested in, and I can work out the costs.

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

Thanks, Jay. I'm always grateful for your moral support, which no administration can impede! We do still get orders from the US, and a tariff is paid at this end, but I've no idea what the experience is for the customer - whether things get through, whether further charges are incurred...

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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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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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