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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Write into the honey. ... Write into the rain. —Rick Barot

Write into the smudge in the painting where the pink lays into the green. Write into the plush of his lower lip. Write into the light pouring from the oculus above the baroque courtyard. Write into the whippoorwill that sings each morning, bringing in the morning. The two old balloons caught in the branch outside the fourth-floor window. The sky and its gray flannel suit. Write into the person practicing scales but practicing them out of order. Write into the honey. The story he told about the hierarchies of honeybees. The story he told about the man mummified in honey. Write into his white hands. Write into the smell of pomade. Write into the smell of August, a thug of a smell. Write into each trivial but astonishing trick, like roller-skating backwards or snipping thread with your teeth. Write into the rain. Write into its fall, knowing that the only god you can know is gravity.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

on the drying grass in the park under falling leaves with Pattern-book by @eireannmor.bsky.social

SONNET FOR THE SECOND- LANGUAGE SPEAKER
What is a word? — Depends on who you ask.
For instance, in the rigid Flemish taal, so many things that feel like words don't pass, and my sprung language doesn't work at all.
My sentences are yet another place where stringent rule-embracers don't agree: to me, an error shows the second face of grammar. The mistakes are what I mean.
The thing I value most in any line— drawn, made, wrote, thought, in fantasy or fact— is flexibility: that, like a spine,
the art supports the mind by which it's maked.
What use is language flattened, dried in books?
Our language lives most when it is mistook.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love. —Frank O’Hara

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Stoen 678: truſt hereinbefore ſpecified

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Sara 📚 @rareautumn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

and a wonderful exhibition too! 📚🌄⛰️

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Sara 📚 @rareautumn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

a lovely video for world book night 🌄🌋🗿📚

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

If you love myths and love reading about the natural world, I highly recommend MYTHOPEDIA by Adrienne Mayor. Organized A to Z, it explores natural phenomena all over the world and related the myths and folklore.

I’m holding my copy of MYTHOPEDIA by Adrienne Mayor

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I’ve been recommending this essay to a lot of friends and students so I figured I should probably share it here too: “How To Mourn” by Tyrese Coleman, published in The Kenyon Review in 2017

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How to Mourn - The Kenyon Review

Everything’s far away. Everything’s a copy of a copy of a copy. —The movie Fight Club If you read my fiction, you will find a character named Grandma. In real life, […]

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Our second exhibition that has opened this month is Gen Harrison's '100 Days Project Scotland: Fold | Found Concertinas'. 100 artists' books made over 100 days. On show now at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK until Tues 30th June, Mon-Fri 9-5, more info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/100days2026/

A set of folded concertina papers in bright blue and pink with the title 100 Days Project Scotland, fold, found concertina. From a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

Two folded concertina books, folded from found papers, one in the shape of a little house, one with a diamond pattern in black and white. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

Details of some folded concertina books, made from found papers in different shapes and colours, one has a little pair of dolls legs sticking out with ruby slippers on. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

A handmade box with a little concertina book inside, this is made from brightly coloured marbled papers with a red border - the 100 tiny books made for the project live inside it. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The Book Arts Newsletter No 172, April - June 2026 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 60 pages of artists' books news and opportunities. Cover artist for this issue: Angelo Ricciardi for World Book Night 2026 Next deadline: 15th June for the July – August newsletter.

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FANZINES @fanzines.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine. Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨ Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

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Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

'Another world is possible' Contemplating interbeing and our relationships with (other) animals this morning through collage journaling in a found book, with Arundhati Roy's words to generate hope for a more compassionate world for our animal kin #interbeing #humananimal #weareallconnected

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Submissions are now OPEN for the summer issue! Send in your short, minimal & concrete poems by 30th April. The more sun-soaked & thunderstormy the better! ☀️🌀

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

✂️ Weekend #Giveaway for e(i 8: #Collage✂️ FREE to read, download, & share! buff.ly/E6d26Y2 Interact w/ this post thru the weekend to help boost our contributors & we'll send you #FREE STICKERS as a thanks! #poetry #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity #litmag #indielit

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair this Saturday (25 April): hope to see you there. St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A video with a selection of the 200 contributions to our WBN 2026 exhibition (on show until 31 July) 'The Mountains Are Calling' is now live for World Book Night 23rd April at: youtu.be/T3n3Q_uMJeE Music for the video composed and performed by Si Butler and Simon Smith. Image ⬇️ Cecilia Mandrile.

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The Mountains Are Calling - World Book Night 2026

YouTube video by Centre For Print Research, UWE Bristol

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The Mountains Are Calling… An exhibition for World Book Night is now on show at Bower Ashton Library until Friday 31st July 2026. Open Mon-Fri 9-5, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/ ⛰️📚 Inspired by Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. ⛰️📚

An exhibition poster with a painting of a mountain designed by Shaun Oaten, the text reads: The Mountains Are Calling…
An exhibition for World Book Night 2026
Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol
Thursday 2nd April – Friday 31st July 2026

An artist's book by Kate Bernstein for World Book Night - A hard cover book which has no spine, the printed paper inside is triangular and unfolds to make the shape of a mountain.

A piece for World Book Night by Ray Mackenzie: inspired by the original anonymous introduction to Select Views that later became the justly famous guide to the lakes by Wordsworth. Updated for the 21st century it has a drawing of a drone hovering over the lakes in the shape of a cloud.

An artist's book for World Book Night by Tom Sowden. The style of the book is that of the artist Ed Ruscha. It says thirtysix views of steeples. Loosely inspired by the book Seven Steeples by Sara Baume, which is based in Ireland.

Tom adapted a copy of his artist’s book Thirtysix Views of #MtFuji and replaced the images of Mount Fuji with pencil drawings of Ireland’s tallest mountain, Carrauntoohil. Another mountain he hasn’t climbed.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Some of the 200 pieces received for World Book Night 2026 The Mountains Are Calling… Our exhibition opens in April at UWE Bristol Bower Ashton Library and is on show until 31st July. Works here by: @rareautumn.bsky.social @nickwhimster.bsky.social @porcovolente.bsky.social @markleahy.bsky.social 🗻⛰️

A postcard made for World Book Night about mountains, showing a collage of text with some watercolour painted mountains and blossom trees. By Sara - rareautumn.

A screenprint made for World Book Night about mountains, showing wave lines making the shape of a mountain. By Nick Whimster.

A bookwork made for World Book Night about mountains, hand cut paper in the shape of a mountain range, it has text printed on it inspired by Nan Shepherd's book The Living Mountain and also Robert MacFarlane's book Landmarks. By porcovolente.

A text-based image made for World Book Night about mountains. The text shapes echo the triangular shape of mountains, printed in red, blue and green. The piece is made in response to Zsuzanna Gahse's 2024 book Mountainish, published by Prototype, and the text artwork is a wordplay that references Carrauntoohil, Ireland's highest mountain. By Mark Leahy.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Forever a vibe.

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Grid, Variation,Layered Print on Wove Paper

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Rubbish Poem

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Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I really like this - simple and to the point! ‘Creation myth’ by Mike Johnson.

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SAS Artist Book Readings @sasreadings.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

SAS Season 3 Call for Proposals! We are seeking proposals for readings of #artistsbooks that are not yet completed or that are over three years old and will be completely reimagined for the reading format. Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST. Full details: www.newlightspress.com/sas-submissi...

A digital flyer with an orange background, nearly white and very dark purple text, and yellow apostrophes as design elements. The text reads: "S Apostrophe S Artist Book Readings. Season 3 Call for Proposals Now Open! Deadline: August 3, 2025 at 10 pm EST."

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

INCREDIBLY excited to share the line up for the Hydropoetry in Practice conference! Join us at Royal Holloway or online on 30th July 🌊🌊🌊 www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr...

Poster text reads:

HYDROPOETRY IN PRACTICE
30TH JULY 2025
HYBRID / ROYAL HOLLOWAY
KEYNOTE PERFORMERS:
ROYAL
HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
UNIVERSITY of York
Poetics
Research
Centre
Royal Holloway
HUMANITIES &
ARTS
RESEARCH
— NSTITUTE
/ MARAMA SALSANO: 'KO WAI AU? WHOSE WATERS DO I DESCEND FROM?' / KATIE HART POTAPOFF: 'A RETURN TO THE CROOK IN MY ELBOW' / KARAN CHAMBERS: 'WHAT THE WATER GAVE US: FEMINIST HYDROPOETICS AND THE REIMAGINING OF FOLKLORE' / CONEFFLUENTS: 'LEAKY INSTRUMENTS: HOSTING, TOOLS, AND POROSITY AT CHANNELSEA RIVER' / AYESHA HAMEED & DESIRE MULLA: 'A GLOSSARY OF AFTERLIVES OF TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVERY' / ANITA SLATER: 'A POETICS OF GUIDANCE: THINKING THROUGH WATER AND GUIDEBOOKS' / JENNIFER HOWITT: 'ENTER FEN' / SUPRIYA KAUR DHALIWAL: 'AGAINST LISTENING: AN ANTI-RIVER MANIFESTO' / RACHEL MARSH:
LETTING THE COLLOIDAL
SUSPENSION SETTLE' / KATIE MCGETTIGAN: 'WATER/PAPER/WATER'
/ MONTENEGRO FISHER: 'FLUID GEOMETRIES' / HELENA HUNTER:
'ALGAE POETICS: PRACTICE RESEARCH WITH POETRY AND MARINE SCIENCE' / TUSSHARA NALAHUMAR SRILATHA: 'WAYS TO SUMMON WATER' / LIZ KENDALL: 'THE BRIDGE OF POETRY: MEMORY AS MOTIVATION
FOR CLIMATE ACTION' / CHARLIE MILLS:
'UNDERFLOWAN' / IRIZAIDA NAVAR: 'RITUAL PARA QUE LLUEVA' / BECCA DRAKE & GAIA BLANDINA: 'RESURFACING THE KING'S POOL, A COLLABORATIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE' / TAMSYN CHALLENGER:
'WATER WORKS' / VERITY ROWSELL: 'OCEANIC BODIES' /
9.30AM - 6.00PM: CHESTNUTS LECTURE THEATRE
ROVAL HOLLOWAY ECHAM CAMPUS
Register via Eventbrite / Contact
briony.hughes@rhul.ac.uk with any questions

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Paula @paulasmithard.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Spineless Wonders exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social is a treasure trove of pamphlets, manifestos, chap books & artist books through time & space.

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A small exhibition of material from the @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Small Press Collections is on at @senatehouselib.bsky.social until 31/8, complementary to their excellent Spineless Wonders. If you can't make it to SHL, here's a online guide to all the exhibits: sway.cloud.microsoft/tWg56jeuiFaQ...

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Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL

The 1960s was a period of unprecedented access to affordable printing technologies for writers, artists, and activists; commercial offset printing had become more economically viable and workplace tec

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Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Here are a few poems from my collection Constellations (Guillemot Press), a sequence of visual poems based on the 88 recognised astronomical constellations. 🖤 #concretepoetry

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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Excited to have 2 meta-ekphrastic poems in issue 6 of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social Both constructed from museum visitor texts created as part of the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social interactive poetry display - see pages 112 & 113 www.lincolnreview.org/issue6 #ekphrasis #ekphrasticpoetry

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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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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Excited to have some work in a group exhibition @rossicontemporary. "Trust The Artist" opens today, featuring work by: #davidquinn #johnvanoers, lucky old me, et al. If you are in Brussels pop in and take a look! 🕊

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James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’ve two new visual poems in issue ten of the wonderful @aswirl.bsky.social. The issue makes for a beautiful reading experience. www.aswirlzine.com/product-page...

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SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Doechii Covers British Vogue, August 2025 issue

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Olaf Probst reads and presents his artists' books Thursday 17th July 6pm. Celebrating the 30th anniversary of his group of works - Grey Values. Archive Artist Publications Türkenstraße 60 basement, Munich 80799, Germany. All welcome. archive-artistsbooks.de/kontakt.htm

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RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Looking forward to our latest 'Show and Tell' session sharing photohistory with fellow enthusiasts. Tuesday 15th July (1900-2000). Great opportunity to learn more about @rpshistgroup.bsky.social ... register via link. events.rps.org/en/g/z9tTjH8...

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 167, July - August 2025 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 76 pages of Artists' Books News - Exhibitions, Courses, Workshops, Opps, Book Fairs and Events, New Artists' Publications, Reports & Reviews, Announcements and Stop Press!

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Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Divider composition.

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Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Kristjan Haljak & I will be performing our collaborative piece at the Estonian poetry night of the European Poetry Festival at @poetrysociety.bsky.social cafe Monday 30th June. Always a pleasure to be involved & in collaboration for the EPF! 🖤 Line-up so far here: www.europeanpoetryfestival.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No. 1, 1915, Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first major abstract works in Western art #WomensArt

Anstract oainting with central large circular form with an inner heart shape, all bisected with a coiled vertical line leading to a rainbow coloured section at the bottom of the circle

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c22 @c22press.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

You can check all three issues of our zine eYeland for free on our website. Wild, experimental, handmade, cut and paste zine featuring textual and visual work. Check it out! c22press.wordpress.com/zines/

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Zines

eYeland #3pdf eYeland #2pdf eYeland #1pdf Interviews with the staffpdf

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porcovolente @porcovolente.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Linocut. Joseph Brisot, Black And Blue Abstract, 1985 #linocutartists #printmaking #reliefprints #linocut

black and white linocut with diamond patterned squares of different sizes and textures overprinted in the centre with an area of royal blue

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Thoroughly delighted that my essay "The Time of Suspense and The Time of Suspension" (p.12) has found a home in issue 6 of @thelincolnreview.bsky.social alongside @tomjenksuk.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social et al. All thanks to Daniele Pantano and editors at TLR www.lincolnreview.org/issue6

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Every day since the first printing I've made more copies of this booklet. It's fun doing small batches and I change the paper colors/stocks each time. Half the print run to date is already sold/distributed, which feels amazing. I'll keep making more so no rush. halfletterpress.com/why-self-pub...

The May 6, 2025 printing of Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? by Marc Fischer, with a log of how many copies I've printed and assembled since May 1st (262 booklets so far!).

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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Cover, Dutch sales booklet Olivetti 82 Diaspron Typewriter Giovanni Pintori, designer c. 1965 Source (and lots more about Pintori) at the Online Archive of @letterformarchive.org; letterformarchive.org/news/giovann...

A colorful, overhead view of an illustrated, stylized view of a typewriter, showing simplified shapes of its different internal components in bright colors. Text reads Olivetti 82 Diaspron.

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Vintage anti-war poster, circa 1970 — Peace Now.

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Sahar ⟀ @cathlynsa.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Rights of Humankind ∘ Designer: Shin Matsunaga: Japanese graphic designer known for for his corporate identity programs, logo designs and posters, 1989.

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