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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I am delighted to announce some news… I am part of a shortlist of 5 artists working in Contemporary Book Art nominated for Women to Watch exhibition - see details here: www.ukfriendsofnmwa.org/2027-contemp... The 5 shortlisted artists will show their work at Christie’s on 10-12 February 2026

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

💚 heart co-editing intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social. We'll be at Conway Hall in the heart of Bloomsbury for this year's amazing @smallpublishers.bsky.social on the 24 & 25 October. Come say hello!

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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

For Day26 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social A hybrid work, a 'reading' of a #Sartre childhood memoir. A meta-work on reading/writing, the act of re-(creating) interior spaces of pleasure/memory in texts, reading, authorship @rachelartsmith.bsky.social Penteract Press (2022) @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social

Collage cover read(writ)ing words. A Meandering Material Dialogue Rachel Smith w/HMRCollective Penteract Press (2020). collage is of scraps & ephemera of rectangles, (orange, red, pink), triangles, pendants (yellow and green) text fragments (hand) squiggles. etc.

It is arduous to separate the productive activities of
reading, writing, and making. Reading frequently involves
doodling, tangential distractions, note taking, or mentally
constructing ideas all of which begin the blurring of any
boundaries. Writing is soaked in phrases from previous
and concurrent reading. Making is a material production
of the thoughts while reading or writing. The visible
process in these pages is a collaborative activity, as sense
is collectively sought. The assemblage of fragments
explores how sense might be de-con-structed, developing
a generative method as an amalgamation of theory and
practice.

A mix of redaction and erasure, visual poetry, numbered poetic text on the pleasure of memory, reading, books, grandparents, childhood, etc. with handwriting at bottom right.

A marked up, poem collage, with lines, squiggles, text, disintegrating lines of meaning and theory, as if notes from/ on what Smith is reading transformed into a poem/diary full page vispo. Meditative and inspiring.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Studio 46 / Salon #2: an excellent show of new work by Victoria Lucas, @rachelartsmith.bsky.social and @emmabolland.bsky.social, at Bloc Projects Meanwhile Space (1st floor), 2-4 Matilda Street (off The Moor), Sheffield S1 4PF. Friday 25, Saturday 26, Sunday 27 July, 12 noon–4pm. All welcome, free.

Event flyer for Studio 46 / Salon #2 exhibition, with the same text as the main post, some black discs, and a word cloud.

A partial view of the Salon #2 installation, with several wall- and floor-based artworks by Victoria Lucas, Rachel Smith and Emma Bolland in the foreground and background.

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Reading performances from this afternoon at the ex-Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield. A pleasure to read alongside the brilliant @emmabolland.bsky.social, @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and Conor Rogers. Thanks to everyone who joined us. The 'Checked Out' exhibition continues until 18 July.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The aftermath of @rachelartsmith.bsky.social's reading/performance at the ex-Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield, earlier today. A pleasure to read alongside her, @emmabolland.bsky.social, and Conor Rogers. Thanks to everyone who joined us. The 'Checked Out' exhibition continues until 18 July.

A litter of bus tickets on the tiles of a former Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield, printed with the text of 'Lines That Echo' by Rachel Smith.

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I shall be reading different works at events on the next two Saturdays On 12 July, 2pm, an event as part of “Checked Out” - at the former Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield. On Sat 19 July 2-4 at Hive Cic in Bolton as part of Let’s talk about Text exhibition

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This Saturday, 2pm. I'm reading alongside @thehalt.bsky.social @rachelartsmith.bsky.social and Conor Rodgers as part of the Checked Out exhibition events programme. #Sheffield #poetry #prose #performance.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Checked Out - at the former Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield - continues until 18 July (Wed–Sat, 12–6pm), and is well worth, er, checking out. Two additional readers now confirmed for this Saturday's event: @rachelartsmith.bsky.social, and me. Sat 12 July, 2pm, all welcome, free.

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Chuffed to have two installations in the exhibition Checked Out, curated by Thomas Griffiths in #Sheffield. I'm reading a related script in progress as part of the events programme on the 12th. Free, all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/checked-ou...

A large gallery showing an installation of hapazardly piled painted boxes and lighting gels in oranges, browns, and blacks.

A photograph showing a large exhibition space shot from above. An installation of boxes and cut circles in pastel colours spreads along the floor as a visitor walks around it.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

@joewmarsh.bsky.social is a poet and playwright based in the Derbyshire Dales. His work for the theatre has been produced at venues across London including Omnibus Theatre, Finborough Theatre, Theatre 503, Southwark Playhouse and Old Red Lion Theatre.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Jean-François Magre was born in Toulouse. They explore hybrid writings where words,images, original or sampled graphic elements combine. 'Impurity is the very sign of dynamic complexity, a process at work'.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social is an interdisciplinary poet, artist, performer & publisher based in the UK. His books include Void Voices (Hesterglock Press), Chimera (Penteract Press), & Rites & Passages (Salò Press). He runs Steel Incisors, a small press devoted to innovative visual poetry.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Hana Ormara is a visual artist and poet. Hana’s writing draws on her Baloch heritage. She asserts that 'In a world where humans are becoming dependent on technology and artificial intelligence, our survival and evolution relies on voicing the space between our hearts and minds: our imagination.’

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese writes with/in English, Polish & Danish. She lives in Copenhagen & is ‘a creative ambassador’ for the Møn UNESCO Biosphere. Her site-specific verbal/visual texts use analogue processes: botanical inkmaking, cyanotype, pinhole photography, expressive handwriting, and book art.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We are delighted to be working with @clareobrien.bsky.social. Clare's work has been published by ELJ Editions, Hedgehog Poetry Press, and elsewhere. She is currently Poet In Residence at the National Trust for Scotland’s Inverewe Garden.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Anna Reckin has published two collections of poetry with Shearsman (Three Reds, 2011, and Line to Curve, 2018). Her current work is focused on plants & gardens. Her work has appeared in journals in the UK and internationally, including Long Poem Magazine, drain, Antennae and Chant de la Sirène.

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Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Absolutely delighted to be included in the forthcoming exciting pamphlet series from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social, along with these wonderful creatives. More details soon - series 4 #poetry pamphlets out in the autumn! #WritingCommunity #BookSky 💙📚

List of authors with pamphlets included in Intergraphia's series 4.
Hana Ormara
James Knight
Anna Reckin
NaoKo TakaHashi
Joe Marsh
Jean-Francois Magre
Clare O'Brien
Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese
Ryan Ormonde

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Ryan Ormonde grew up near Hastings on the south coast of England. His poems have been published in Gutter, The Rialto and Fourteen Poems.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

NaoKo TakaHashi is an interdisciplinary artist based in the UK. She has undertaken commissions and residencies in Quebec, Nottingham, Jerusalem, Sharjah, and elsewhere. Her contributions to publications have been published in London, Germany, and the USA.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Announcing our series 4 authors! Hana Ormara, James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social, Anna Reckon, Naoko TakaHashi, Joe Marsh @joewmarsh.bsky.social, Jean François Magre, Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, and Ryan Ormonde.

Hana Ormara, James Knight, Anna Reckon, Naoko TakaHashi, Joe Marsh, Jean François Magre, Clare O'Brien, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, and Ryan Ormonde.

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Egidija @egidija.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Some brilliant photos by Therese Ni from Verse Verso artist books and visual poetry symposium at @warburginstitute.bsky.social on May 30. with Gill Partington Chris McCabe @rachelartsmith.bsky.social @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Gefn Press Robin Tomens Gustavo Grandal Montero Andrew Morrison.

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Myself and @emmabolland.bsky.social are here with @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social are here in Leeds at Pages artists book fair! Come and say hi and buy our beautiful pamphlets from a whole host of wonderful artists and writers!

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Productive day in the studio yesterday. Great to have room to scale up and to see the works in relation to each other to push things forward

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Come see me & @rachelartsmith.bsky.social with @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social at PAGES Artists Book Fair, w/ books by Karenjit Sandhu, Sascha A. Akhtar, Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo, Akeem Balogun, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social and more. You'll find us next to the mighty @longbarrowpress.bsky.social .

A concertina artist's book of white, textured paper with rectangles of soft blues great and pinks. The text on it says 'Pages Artists Book Faire, Friday 21 March 11 am - 5pm, Saturday 22 March 11am - 4pm, Leeds Art Gallery Free admission

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

While you are at it, check out @emmabolland.bsky.social and @rachelartsmith.bsky.social most recent publishing project @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social Open for submissions now 🔥🔥🔥 intergraphia.cargo.site

intergraphia.cargo.site

Intergraphia Books

Cargo

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Seven A4 graphite drawings Drawing in relation to stimming An ecology of traces Lines of flight Neuro-queering the line Hyperfocus while nudging them about in the studio Reading Tim Ingold ‘Lines’ and Antonia Pont ‘Philosophising Practice’ in Practising with Deleuze

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Images / Visual content: Images or visual content should be greyscale. If selected these visual components should be available as separate files at 300dpi, should they not be of high enough resolution in your submitted manuscript.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Typeface / Font: For sections of, or whole manuscripts where the font is not part of a visual / concrete design, please use either Baskerville or Avenir Light (or similar fonts if these are not available to you) in 12- or 13-point size with 1.15 line space on A5 size pages...

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🧵intergraphia Open Call Submission window: 3 March, 9 am GMT to 10 March, midnight GMT. Submissions cannot be accepted before or after these times. We will try to make our decision by 21 April. We're sorry that we will not be able to offer individual feedback to unsuccessful submissions...

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Monday 3 March, 9 am GMT to Monday 10 March, 12 am (midnight) GMT

Green background with back text reading 'Submission window: Monday 3 March, 9 am GMT to Monday 10 March, midnight GMT.
Submissions cannot be accepted before or after these times.
We will endeavour to make our decision by 21 April.
We regret that due to the anticipated number of submissions we will not be able to offer individual feedback to unsuccessful submissions.
Guidelines
We are seeking submissions for Intergraphia Series 4 pamphlets to be launched in late Autumn 2025.
intergraphia is an intersectional and inclusive publishing project. We are interested in hybrid works which push at the edges and boundaries of text and visual work.
Your submission should be a completed work, not a work in progress. Familiarise yourself with our previously published work to get a better understanding of what we are interested in. (https://intergraphia.cargo.site/).
Make sure to carefully read our formatting specifications below.'

Green background with back text reading "PLEASE NOTE: All submissions will be anonymised by the submissions host before we review them. If contacting us with a query, please do not refer to your submission in specific terms.

What to submit:
Document 1: File name as ‘Last name_initials_manuscript’
● Your titled manuscript
NOTE: these manuscripts will be anonymised before we review them

Document 2: File name as ‘Last name_initials_rationale’
NOTE: this document will only be seen after we have made our initial selection. This document should include
● Your name
● A brief biography (100 words max)
● A brief statement / exposition of the work (100 words max)
● Referring to our publications, tell us why you think your work fits with intergraphia’s aims. (200 words max)
● Discretionary: any other information you feel is neccessary (80 words max).

NOTE: Documents should be supplied in PDF. If selected we will require the original documents for any suggested in-house editing and design work.

Please send your files to: thefooting@gmail.com
NOTE: this email is for submissions only and NOT for queries or other correspondence.
For queries contact intergraphiabooks@gmail.com "

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Content:
The pamphlet will comprise 12 X A5 pages of content (not including title page, colophon, or blank verso/recto. Allow for approximately 2 cm margins (except where full bleed is integral to your design).

Typeface / Font:
For sections of, or whole manuscripts where the font is not part of a visual / concrete design, please use either Baskerville or Avenir Light (or similar fonts if these are not available to you) in 12- or 13-point size with 1.15 line space on A5 size pages.

Images / Visual content:
Images or visual content should be greyscale. If selected these visual components should be available as separate files at 300dpi, should they not be of high enough resolution in your submitted manuscript.'.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Intergraphia OPEN CALL! Important: This is thread of TEN posts. Please read all of them before considering a submission.

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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...

Winter-themed border of blue snowflakes on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions January 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.

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Graeme Cole | Unfound Peoples Videotechnic ◡◶▿ @unfoundvideo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

🎥 In autumn 2023, over 12 weeks, I posted 37 micro-essays on the life, death, architecture, respiratory system, materiality & otherworldliness of an appropriately-pungent cinematographic image. Here is an annotated index. Pick the micro-essay that calls to you …and off you go. Reposts appreciated!

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◡◶▿ Rotting the Image: 37 micro-essays on cinematography

🗂️ A hyperlinked guide to creating the odour of your movie's look.

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

possible. Language Starting to think about the combinations and arrangements in series of these graphite drawings with hand printed text. Work in progress

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Busy few days in the studio combining graphite drawings, geometric shapes, and text using metal and wooden type hand printed

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Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do check out my new Substack article, The Art of Reading and Performing Poetry. Based on my background training as a stage and TV actor, I explain and describe how those skills apply when doing poetry readings. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Spoiler alert: Three of our Series 4 pamphlets will be selected from an open call, details to be announced in January!

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

OPEN CALL HEADS UP! We are excited to announce that SERIES 4 will include 3 pamphlets selected from an open call. The call will have a narrow window & very specific criteria. Full details mid Jan, & call out window will open mid Feb. In the meantime, buy our books!

OPEN CALL HEADS UP!

Continuing the spectrum, we are excited to announce that SERIES 4 will include 3 pamphlets selected from an open call. The call will have a narrow window and very specific criteria.

Criteria to be announced in a couple of weeks and call out window will open sometime in February—keep your eyes out for further announcements and in the meantime, buy our books!

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Last minute shopping? Orders to Sheffield delivery addresses (postcodes S1-S12) received by the morning of Monday 23 December will be delivered (by hand, on foot) on or before Tuesday 24 December. We can also gift-wrap at no extra cost. Order here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out, arranged in order of publication.

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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🧵🪡 SPEND (a tiny bit) OF YOUR MONEY ON BEAUTIFUL THINGS BY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE TO GIVE TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS THIS WINTERVAL… all our book from Series 1, 2 and 3 are currently in stock by: Sascha A. Akhtar, Eva Aldea, Akeem Balogun, Derek Beaulieu, Rosie Blackburn, Julia Calver...

A yellow background with words in black that read: 'SPEND (a tiny bit) OF YOUR MONEY ON BEAUTIFUL THINGS BY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE TO GIVE TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS THIS WINTERVAL… all our book from Series 1, 2 and 3 are currently in stock by Sascha A. Akhtar, Eva Aldea, Akeem Balogun, Derek Beaulieu, Rosie Blackburn, Julia Calver, Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo, Linda Cassels, Louise Finney, Mary Frances, Helen Frank, Mark Goodwin, Tim Hardman, Gesa Helms, Jan Hopkins, Briony Hughes, Sharon Kivland, Clee Claire Lee, Joanne Lee, Yas Leigh, Terri Mullholland, Tom Rodgers Karenjit Sandhu, Rachel Smith, Petra Schulze- Wollgast, Vix Stephenson, and Phil Waterworth.'

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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It's a privilege to co-edit intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social ... Support our press by ordering by buying our books! And, spoiler alert, three of our Series 4 pamphlets will be selected from an open call, details to be announced in January!

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city within the area within or around the blue line. And Shiregreen and Hollow Meadows. This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Sunday 22 December).

A map of Sheffield with a ragged blue line marking a six-mile delivery radius.

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Adding text back into the current drawing process Thinking about ecology of lines, lines of enquiry, threaded thought, notions and the inbetween-ness of not knowing Continuing to parse text from Deleuze ‘Logic of Sense’ - taking words either side of the full stops

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 05/12/2024

Your poetry deserves to be seen. We’re looking for modern, non-rhyming poetry that challenges norms and moves readers. Ready to submit? ✨ Submission guidelines here: thebrokenspine.co.uk...

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Push the Boundaries: Submit to #SelectedPoetry – Opening December 2024 - The Broken Spine

The Broken Spine is accepting submissions for our #SelectedPoetry series this December 2024. We’re looking for bold, contemporary poetry that pushes

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Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A snippet from my new handmade book ‘stopping. Or This is my contribution to the AMBruno Artist book project 2024 This collection of 14 books was launched in the reading room of Tate Britain and is now part of their permanent artist book collection More info here: ambruno.co.uk/intervals.html

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Lost myself in this incredible book by @rachelartsmith.bsky.social 'the moment is repeated. and again. her folded. present. is spread out. a tablecloth.' The erasures and layering of voice create the subjective, decorative experience I am fascinated by in my current research.

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Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Quick heads up to everyone selling anything to customers in the European Union. The new GPSR regulations come into force in 2 weeks making it necessary to have a representative within the EU to continue trading. Brief summary (for artists but applies to all sellers) blog.folksy.com/2024/11/26/g...

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GPSR - What you need to know as an artist or maker on Folksy | Folksy Blog

A guide to the new General Product Safety Regulations (GPSR) and what they mean for artists, designers and makers on Folksy.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

With Leeds Trinity and Loughborough we're now actually at 83, or exactly half of the 166 universities @timeshighered.bsky.social counts. HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?

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UK HE shrinking

This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…

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