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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Some of the small selection of artists’ books I have put together for an exhibition at druckwerk Basel, 16-18 June, during the week of Art Basel. Part of the CFPR's cabinet of Curiosities in: Alive! Contemporary Printmaking, a showcase of artefacts beyond the multiple. cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/alive-contem...

Artist's book: Looking at Prints by Richard Roberts (Roberts Print, 2020). It has a gold cover with black outlines of framed works of art. Inside, rather than showing the artworks themselves, it has pictures of people looking at printed artworks in exhibitions.

Artist's book: Exceptional Subjects, by Norman McBeath photographer and printmaker & Melissa McCarthy writer (Easel Press, 2024). A photographic study of items selected from a private collection built up over a number of years. While the objects are all connected to the process of looking - with many linked to the early stages of photography - they are no longer tied by their name or defined by context.

Artist's book: I know my ABC by Paul Cooke (Dubious Books, 2023). Hand drawn images in the style of a children's ABC book, this image is for the letter N, and shows a drawing of the singer Nick Cave (dressed in a pale blue suit) holding a newt that is sitting on a white napkin on his outstretched hands. It is a play on letters and also a tribute to singers and artists that the maker admires.

The exhibition poster for Alive! Contemporary Printmaking. The text details the venue and the participant organisations: Centre for Print Research, The Racket Club, Edition POW.

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Lichenologists would like to have a word…

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

More of this content please. This made my day after coming home from an archive in a museum (which definitely also has a ghost)

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Hard to believe I’m even writing this. Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C than its annual average.

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tony Blair looking more and more like The Joker from Batman as he ages. Maybe… I dunno… maybe Tony Blair is the baddie and we _should_ be moving towards net zero so we don’t fry in the heat?

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Future glances at Mr Sheen may cause blushing

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Such a good podcast that I had to subscribe to get part 2 early! (Been meaning to do that anyway). Thanks for debunking all the crap science studies. Refreshing to get some clarity on the whole issue. Good that so many public toilets are now gender neutral. Feel more sympathy for JK Rowling now too

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Absolutely. And I just spotted that it’s 12pt which would make it …. a tiny climax

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Info for marketing people: I’ve unsubscribed from all marketing newsletters that push Mother’s Day sales without giving the option to opt out. I won’t be resubscribing

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Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

“The creators picked the wrong woman here” too bloody right! It’s me vs AI slop this Sunday on Radio 4

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Upcoming talk: Take a fresh look at the art of the artist's book with Helen Cammock and Jane Rolo at Tate Liverpool, 12 March 2026, 18.30–20.00, tickets £5 | £3. The conversation is related to the ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“Generative AI is the tech equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup: a possibly useful ingredient that is now being inserted into much of what we consume, without our consent.” Article on machine vs human intelligence. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’

Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

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Resurgence @resurgencetrust.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Six decades of poetry From the earliest issues of the magazine, Resurgence has made space for poetry as a way of listening to the living world, to human experience, and to the quiet truths that sit beneath mainstream headlines > conta.cc/4a2LxfZ #Poetry #Poem #Poet #Writing #Resurgence #Magazine

Progression by Peter Bradford, Vol. 2 No. 5, January/February 1969

This poem exposes the tragic irony at the heart of 'progress': that in trying to possess, protect and dominate, humanity steadily impoverishes itself.

In its final lines, the poem confronts us with the ultimate cost of this trajectory — a future in which nothing is left to remember.

Read poem > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/47748/spread/10?rc=540b7844-752e-4809-8727-06e4e2d33e5c

Three poems by Thomas Land, Tony Curtis & P.W. Vol. 5 No. 2, May/June 1974

These three poems reflect on freedom as a natural state, and on the forces that constrain it.

From lightness and movement to violence and waiting, they echo a central Resurgence concern: that when life is controlled rather than cared for, both Nature and the human spirit suffer.

Read poems > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/48767/spread/18?rc=5ad58b2f-6c31-49a6-8455-2837380c781e

The Ground that Seeks Love by Paul Matthews, Issue 213, July/August 2002

This two-poem selection reflects on attention, presence, and the meaning held within everyday acts.

Drawing on art, memory, and the mundane, the poems show how meaning arises when we truly attend to what is before us — a jug, a gesture, a moment of work — rather than standing apart as detached observers.

Read poems > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/45432/spread/36?rc=1e0dc8c2-8b9e-4777-8b7e-f167cf7e4c22

The Uses of the Globe by David Broadbridge, Issue 284, May/June 2014

Seen from space, the Earth is both fragile and alive: the melting ice, rising seas and changing weather remind us that we are not owners, but guests.

The poem invites us to attention, care and shared responsibility, showing that survival and joy come from tending the world as our true dwelling place.

Read poem > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/38925/spread/50?rc=aaae271f-ab8a-4a95-936f-8cecb7bec67b

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Shout out to the Waldy and Bendy deep-dive into Holbein’s The Ambassadors. This is not the first time the world has been turned upside down… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

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Season 5, Episode 18: Bendy’s Deep Dive: The Ambassadors by Holbein

Podcast Episode · Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in Art · 15/01/2026 · 49m

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Small Press Publishers are the *best* — but they need more support (and investment): www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont... (Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )

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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book

Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot

The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is the information I’ve been looking for!

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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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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Incredible article — thank you for writing it

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Acrobat: ✨ This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary Me: No thanks — I’ll find connections that you, ai assistant, will not Relieved to say that after closing the oh-so-helpful banner in acrobat waaaaay too many times, I finally found a way to switch off ai in preferences

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at: www.hab.de/en/artists-b...

Image: Acheiropoieta by Clifton Meador (2020). A picture of a woman from photographs in the collection, reworked in colour.

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Huh! That just triggered a memory for me. My mum used to put these (dried) in flower arrangements. I never knew what they were till now. Thanks!

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

But…. what if Peter Thiel _is_ the Antichrist? Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing he would say? #joke

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

With many thanks to @terriwindling.bsky.social whose quotes from writers and folklorists on the walls of the Widdershins 3 exhibition at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead provided an epiphany moment

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New blogpost alert: Mary Stella Edwards and “The Immortal Hour”… or my theory on how the Celtic revival gave (imaginative) people in the last century the imagery to rethink their connections to the natural world acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/mary-stella-...

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Mary Stella Edwards and “The Immortal Hour” - Ackland And Edwards Trust

The importance of The Immortal Hour on Mary Stella Edwards poetry and connection to the natural world – and its relation to the faery realm

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John Dilnot @johndilnot.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Small Publishers Fair October 2022 The fair is coming up again soon 24-25 Oct 2025 Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London WC1R 4AL #smallpublishers #artistsbooks #handprinted #smallpublishersfair2025 #screenprinting

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I’ve been learning how to make #letterpress ink from #earthpigments and laked botanicals. It’s taken some time! Now working on a concertina artist book with #woodtype and #metaltype. The earth pigments come from my garden and local beaches, & (so far) #lakepigments from onion skins and blackberries

Detail of a Letterpress print made with woodtype and metal type. Print favours shapes of letters and type overlaps over readability

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

👀 I spy the best end of Westward Ho! beach… great shot!

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Our World Book Night 2025 Talk to the Trees | Listen to the Trees artworks have been packed, addressed and stamped for 200+ recipients. Two boxes of post are leaving tomorrow. Next year will be mountains, details of the call will be in the September-October Book Arts Newsletter. Will you join us?

The back of a beautiful keepsake produced by Rachel Marsh of Semple Press. Rachel’s special edition for participants - Mycelial Whispers, is letterpress printed in PaperWise (made from agricultural crop waste) dyed with oak gall modified with iron and soda ash.

A table full of envelopes and postage stamps being assembled.

A table full of postage stamps and envelopes being assembled.

The front of a beautiful keepsake produced by Rachel Marsh of Semple Press. Rachel’s special edition for participants - Mycelial Whispers, is letterpress printed in PaperWise (made from agricultural crop waste) dyed with oak gall modified with iron and soda ash.

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Artist commission opp UK: exploring artists’ books held at @britishlibrary.bsky.social alongside works in @leedsmuseums.bsky.social sculpture collection that employ the medium of the book as a sculptural object. Info on link, deadline to apply 29 Aug: museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/collections-...

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Collections in Dialogue: An Artist Co-Commission Call Out

The British Library and Leeds Art Gallery seek to commission an artist or artist collective based in the Yorkshire and Humber area. This commission will culminate in the creation of new work by the ar...

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

ChatGPT is actually *not* good for brainstorming. Great ‘Cautionary Tales’ podcast about the pitfalls in ai here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... Includes a small segment on how useless it is for brainstorming!

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Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447

Podcast Episode · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · 19/07/2024 · 41m

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Huh. You only get a kitkat and a glass of squash for donating blood in the uk. Plus the sweet glow of virtue of course… though that might have been light-headedness

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aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The submission window for the autumn issue closes on Friday! Last chance to send in your short, minimal & concrete poems for publication in aswirl 🌀🍂

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The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society @stwsociety.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Announcing a conference in London in May 2026, to mark the centenary of Lolly Willowes, Sylvia's first and best-known novel. townsendwarner.com/lolly-willow...

Detail of the 2016 Siruela (Spanish) edition of Lolly Willowes, showing a cat with the title written on its white chest.

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Not just me then. I did listen and wished I hadn’t. Also usually love @bunkerpod.bsky.social

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A studio _and_ letterpress? You’re doomed. I predict a studio stuffed with letterpress equipment within 6 months

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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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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Art Crossing Borders with Artists' Books: Bristol Welcoming Brazil. An exhibition of works by São Paulo-based study group “Artists' books, book-objects: among traces and effacement.”. Curated and produced by Fabíola Notari. Bower Ashton Library, for info visit: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/livrosdearti...

Poster for an exhibition of artists books from Brazil at Bower Ashton Library in Bristol, UK.

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Semple Press @semplepress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

You definitely deserve one… I feel sure one will come your way

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Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Would any of you be interested in a bi-annual visual poetry newspaper? 🤔

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