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Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027. linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair

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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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Women to Watch | Tate Britain
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Call for applications: @fruitmarket.bsky.social Artists’ Bookmarket 2027. Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ books culture, 13 & 14 February 2027. Stalls, accompanying exhibition, events and workshops programme. Applications close 08.11.26. More info at: www.fruitmarket.co.uk/artists-book...
A call out poster for the Artists’ Bookmarket 2027 in Edinburgh. Inviting participants, link for applications is in the main text message.
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Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For over ten years, I've been running an experimental poetry press called Penteract Press. Penteract exists to give a platform to constrained, experimentally formal, and visual poets. [1/4]
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Store — Penteract Press
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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ever wanted to peek behind the scenes of publishing? At the Northern Publishers' Fair you’ll meet editors, agents & indie publishers shaping the future of books in the North. Don’t miss your chance to connect on Sat 14 Nov 11am, Mcr Central Library fly-on-the-wall-press.eventcube.io/events/97643...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy publication day to this new banana, issue 4 of The Little Review. I'm in here, on Reznikoff - translated into Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, but zero in print in the UK until Testimony from CBe next year.
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ladybird on Ivy. #InsectThursday
Close-up photograph of a Ladybird on an Ivy flower.
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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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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Viewings works through the many senses of its title: flats seen but not secured in a hostile Dublin rental market, the interior of a body read through scans and symptoms, and the cartography of an island off Galway that was never there. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Boo! We're presenting a collective reading at the University of Sheffield on Wed 2 December - Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones and Fay Musselwhite - free, no booking required. Details not on the website yet, but let me know if it's of interest and I'll keep you posted.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CB editions September newsletter, including news of the first ever CBe author tour, archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/09/news...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An AHRC funded PhD opportunity at the British Library - 'Inscribing Friendship: Social Networks, Artistic Practices and Collecting Histories in the Alba Amicorum at the British Library'. Deadline to apply 27 Nov 2026. All info at: www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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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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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social on Edwin Morgan's Colour Poems (they are included in our new volume of Morgan's concrete, visual and sound poetry *A Home in Space* from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social ) www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art...
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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Please join us for the launch of THE SURVIVING CELLS on 14 October at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with author @brianwillems.bsky.social in conversation with @hannahhg.bsky.social burleyfisherbooks.com/products/the...
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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
terrific mail day - trio of pamphlets by @eyesfront.bsky.social (& coverart poscards by anon.), requiring usual penknife surgery to extract as do all careful packages from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Beautiful post from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social & @vikshirley.bsky.social No @smallpublishers.bsky.social this year, I will miss having a chat with @emmabolland.bsky.social @rachelartsmith.bsky.social & @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Good job you can order the book here intergraphia.cargo.site/Shop
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Book Fair Calendar is a list of UK anarchist, book art, indie, small press, zine and other fairs. In September alone, ten will take place in Eastbourne and Reading (both this Saturday 12), and in London. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/book-fair-ca...
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Other events are listed here on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...
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A Home in Space: Upcoming Launches and Events
Edwin Morgan is best remembered as Scotland’s foremost national poet, a bold, lyric voice who shaped conversations around queerness, politics and post-war life. But Morgan was also a restless exper…
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"the plain form of the pamphlet has persisted throughout the history of publishing, its flexibility and limited extent perfectly suited to a single concern or to simple gatherings of text and images..."
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An exhibition celebrating Coracle press - directed by Erica Van Horn & Simon Cutts, opens at South Tipperary Arts Centre 12/09/26 on show until 24/10/26. Explore Coracle's influence on artist-led-publishing, the development of the artist book, & the book as art object. www.southtippartscentre.ie
A green cloth bound book with text that reads: 'coracle, celebrating the work of Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts, 12 Sept - 24 Oct.'
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Early hours.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Visionary, urgent… extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald This spirited, astonishing, bewildering book is one of the best long poems I have read. - Adam Piette One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok 'Eely' longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Three copies of Steve Ely's 'Eely' against an orange background.
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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Here's a few photos from last month's Michael Marks Awards event, at which Hana Ormara was presented with the Illustration Award for her intergraphia pamphlet. Hana interviewed for the Michael Marks Awards: michaelmarksawards.org/in-conversat... Buy the pamphlet: intergraphia.cargo.site/Hana-Ormara
Hana Ormara at the Michael Marks AwardsIllustrator Chris Riddell with Hana Ormara's intergraphia pamphletIllustrator Chris Riddell with the poster accompanying Hana Ormara's intergraphia pamphlet
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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Cover reveal! We're delighted to announce the first title in intergraphia Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images and poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. On sale from Wednesday.
Unboxing of Vik Shirley's 'Amorous Electrons' pamphlet
Vik Shirley's 'Amorous Electrons' pamphlet and poster
Vik Shirley's 'Amorous Electrons' pamphlet and poster
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confingopublishing.bsky.social @confingopublishing.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
What brought Ginsberg to Manchester in 1973—and whom did he meet? @rogerbygott.bsky.social investigates in Ginsberg & Manchester, out 3 September. Pre-order now for £7 + p&p: www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page... Photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate/Stanford University Libraries #BookSky #Manchester
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N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Bristol Artist’s Book Event is nearly here - Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June 2026 at UWE Bristol Fine Art Studios at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX. 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/ Come and meet 100+ book artists!
This is a tiny fabric book made with a cotton reel as its base, an unfolding piece of textile strip with a pattern of teacups with the text Tea Leaf Readings. Made by Sally Light - Bodkin Beak.An image of four books published by Intergraphia books, each one has a different colour cover dark orange, light orange, lime green, dark green. The books contain experimental text works by writers, poets, artists.
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Join us in Sheffield next week for the launch of 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 24 June Upstairs at The Shakespeare, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB 7.30pm start Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...
Several copies of 'The Gleaning' against a yellow background.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our BABE poster printed by Ben Goodman, it’s out and about in town but we have saved some for exhibitors to collect when they arrive next week (while they last). A beautiful relief printed blend celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/ev...
Our wonderful BABE poster printed by genius Ben Goodman, a sloped mountain shape with a beautiful relief printed blend in blue ink on pale grey paper celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event.
A detail from our BABE poster. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event. 26 & 27 June 11am - 5pm with the website address: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/Our wonderful BABE poster printed by genius Ben Goodman, a sloped mountain shape with a beautiful relief printed blend in blue ink on pale grey paper celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event. 26 & 27 June 11am - 5pm with the website address: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/
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the modernist @themodernist.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Britain's post-war graphic designers helped reshape society during a period of profound national transformation, yet many of their names have quietly slipped from view... the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
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Righting a Wrong: Why We've Reprinted Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 in Paperback
Some books deserve to reach more people. When we first published Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 by Ian McLaren and Tony Pritchard, we knew we had something special on our hands. What we...
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Jeremy Dixon @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thanks so much @emmalee1.bsky.social for this gorgeous review of my new collection, which includes some close reading and interpretation of a number of poems. 🥁📈🌊
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Congratulations to Hana Ormara and @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social! You can order Hana's pamphlet here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Hana-Ormara
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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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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Beautiful book post, THE—A Concordance by Colin Sackett and INCISIONS—A Micro Anthology by Michael Hampton, published by the wonderful @uniformbooks.bsky.social I can't wait to see how this new pamphlet series evolves: www.colinsackett.co.uk/uniformpamph...
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Benchwork.
A benchful of Uniformpamphlets being sewn.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Bristol Artist’s Book Event is Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2026, 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome An international event showcasing artists’ books to the public. Special guests from Japan bringing bookworks and the Kujibiki Drawing project. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/
A collage of colourful book pieces (stripes, triangles in different colours) with a woman's face from an old photograph looking towards the East, a hand opening a book universe and two owls looking out because owls are well read as everybody knows. The text reads: Inside Stories, Bristol Artist's Book Event.
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Andrew Wilson is posting page-by-page, and almost daily "the content of one of the great books of the early 1960s, La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow and George Maciunas: 'An Anthology of Chance Operations'."
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nightjrrs.bsky.social @nightjrrs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Every movement of the pen, every abrasion of rock and paper is important. Now more than ever.
Rowtor Rocks. Cave. Chisel marks.Outer rocks of Rowtor Rocks.The crucial press Longbarrow Press hand stamped every package.Plenty Wenlock mark. Hand done copy of the logo. Marker of presence, and resistance. Like this one.
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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This will be a fascinating and beautiful book, and an essential addition to the work on Ian Hamilton Finlay - well worth supporting.
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boomkat.com @boomkat.com · 20/04/2026
The first collaborative material from Richard Skelton and Autumn Richardson in over a decade is a tape of contemplative, decelerated Americana with a hypnotic twist, led by Richardson's ethereal vocals and Skelton's jerky, dubby guitarwork... boomkat.com/products/ray...
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Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Delighted to announce we will be at Offprint London next week. Come say hi, grab yourself a book!
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Now out of print, but the text of 'The European Eel' reappears as the first section of Ely's collection 'Eely' (Longbarrow Press, 2024)
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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This remarkable and brilliant long poem by @steveeely.bsky.social is published by Sheffield's @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I remember when the artisanal craftsmanship was...the writing. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/writ...
Chicago-based Sean Chou, 54, co-founder of multiple tech startups including an AI company last year, uses artificial intelligence to draft LinkedIn posts. But he said he’ll replace em dashes with two smaller dashes, hoping they’ll look more handmade.

“It’s like my artisanal craftsmanship,” Chou said.
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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1825: Wrote another portion of my Life & took a Walk to seek a Nightingales nest - found a Song thrushes in bushy close by the side of a young oak with 4 eggs never saw one of this kind in such a place before
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...
Five copies of Fay Musselwhite's collection 'The Gleaning' against a yellow background
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Call for exhibitors - Athens Art Book Fair: The ABBF is an artist-run organisation devoted to artist publishing. Our international art book fair happens once a year and hosts artists, publishers, zinesters and anything in-between from Greece and abroad. Deadline to apply 31 May. athensartbookfair.gr
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Athens Art Book Fair
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Jake Reynolds @jakeareynolds.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A pleasure to be joining this wonderful lineup on May 29th for the online @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social May launch. Pay-what-you-want tix available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
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The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Shandy Hall #gardens open for @NGSyorkshire tomorrow 8th May 6.30 - 8pm #opengardens www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/nation...
Bee in a red tree peonySolomon's sealnew sycamore leaves
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