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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Join us in celebrating 50 years of Coracle Press! Wednesday 12th November, 5-8pm, UCL @uclspeccoll.bsky.social. There will be talks, a pop-up exhibition, and general merriment: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-continu...

We continue to wave a small handkerchief at the world: Coracle Press @ 50

Join us to celebrate 50 years of Coracle Press!

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 10d

Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 14d

Happy National Poetry Day! For more information on the @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Poetry Store visit www.ucl.ac.uk/library/spec...

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 22d

This year's exhibition at Small Publishers Fair (24 & 25 October) draws on several decades of work by artist and writer Erica Van Horn, who has been a participant at the Fair since the beginning.

Details of the exhibition can be found here:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/exhibition-2...

Illustration from a post card announcing an installation of books by Erica Van Horn at Franklin Furnace, NYC in 1986

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · 28d

We're really excited to be working with Monitor Books as our inaugural @uclspeccoll.bsky.social Small Press in Residence! www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...

2025 Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections

Monitor Books is the 2025 UCL Small Press in Residence. They are developing a publishing project that engages with our collections and will feed into our small press 60th anniversary celebrations

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 29d

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science @ucllccos.bsky.social · Sep 5

Photos from ‘Spineless Wonders and 60 years of Small Press at UCL’. It’s been a great exhibition by the Research Institute for Collections showcasing iconic presses from the 1960s and 1970s alongside recent acquisitions.

A display case in Senate House containing items from UCL Special Collections.

Coins and print materials in a display case.

A variety of print materials in a display case at Senate House Library.

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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · Jul 11

During July and August, ‘spineless’ items from our Small Press Collections are on display ‪@senatehouselib.bsky.social‬ and can be seen as part of the wider Spineless Wonders exhibition there.

Free & open to all!

Many thanks to our friends at Senate House for having us!

Image by Christos Fotelis

A selection of small, ephemeral items by Beau Geste Press, displayed in an exhibition case against a blue background. Items include two matchboxes and a selection pf paper ephemera made of both white and purple paper.

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thank you Sarah!

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · Jul 11

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...

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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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · May 29

Our amazing Cavan McCarthy / Tlaloc archive in @uclspeccoll.bsky.social has been catalogued by our brilliant Archives and Records Management placement student. All the deets here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Cavan McCarthy Archive | UCL UCL Special Collections

UCL Homepage

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · May 5

Listen, put down that copy of Hello! and take a trip through the wilder side of magazines. We'll be exploring the inky world of alternative publishing: poets, artists, innovators and visionaries. 23rd May in London - still places left and not much time to register. Please SHARE SHARE SHARE!

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Inscription: the Journal of Material Text @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social · Apr 26

THIS THIS THIS!

gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · Apr 26

Interested in artists' magazines, experimental poetry journals and countercultural press? This one-day course on 23rd May explores some of UCLs most out-there periodicals. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

Magazines, Art and Experiment

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gill partington @gillpartington.bsky.social · Apr 26

Interested in artists' magazines, experimental poetry journals and countercultural press? This one-day course on 23rd May explores some of UCLs most out-there periodicals. Sign up here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

Magazines, Art and Experiment

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · Apr 7

Its #nationalpoetrymonth , so download free PDFs of everything i've written:

derekbeaulieu.ca/pdfs/

(or please do support the publishers & buy a book: derekbeaulieu.ca/buy-my-work/ )

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · Apr 3

Hi Colin / Ian, yes we do! ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44... @uniformbooks.bsky.social @ianwaites.bsky.social

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Kaja Marczewska @kajamarczewska.bsky.social · Mar 5

Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Call for a Small Press in Residence at UCL Special Collections | UCL UCL Special Collections

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · Mar 4

Very good contextual piece on DSH.

Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · Mar 4

New article on Dom Sylvester Houédard's visual poetry up @artukdotorg.bsky.social artuk.org/discover/sto...

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Mar 4

10 days to go until the first Spineless Wonders event at Aberystwyth School of Art!
14 Mar: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection
& Off The Shelf–Performing The Collection
15 Mar: Workshop, creative writing & making

Info & booking 🔗👇
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Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art

Spineless Wonders Exhibition of Small Press Publications, Words and Images: Re:Collection: Out of the Collection: School of Art, (SOA) Aberystwyth University, also runs 10 March–6 May 2025 (check Abe...

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UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social · Feb 28

IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception
6-7 March, UCL
Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.
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IAS Conference: Audiences, Publics, Experience: Rethinking Music Reception

Drawing together musicology, anthropology, psychology as well as sound, media, and cultural studies, the conference aims to progress foundational research on music reception today.

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · Feb 25

We had such a great day at our @uclspeccoll.bsky.social event last week celebrating 60 years of small press and mimeography at UCL. Thanks to everyone who came along and got stuck in. www.ucl.ac.uk/library/coll...

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UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social · Feb 20

On March 7th we're doing an International Women's Day edition of our Bloomsbury Open Morning! Come see some rare books and archives related to the history of women's suffrage and the continuing fight for women's rights.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-morni...

#London #RareBooks #Archives

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · Feb 20

download PDFs of Poor.Old.Tired.Horse (1962-68), one of the most important visual poetry magazines internationally. (courtesy @ubuweb.bsky.social : www.ubu.com/vp/Poor.Old....)

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · Feb 11

The next Spineless Wonders event takes place on Friday 14th March. 'Conversing, traversing, translating the collection' - online via Zoom, 2pm–4:30pm. Exhibition, readings, and performances in person at Aberystwyth School of Art. Book here: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events...

Slade School of Fine Art - Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art

Free, book via Eventbrite.

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UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social · Jan 21

Join us for a free day of mimeo printing, talks, and performance in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-revolu...

The revolution will be stencilled! Mimeography and Small Press at UCL

Join us for a day of mimeo printing and talks in celebration of 60 years of small press collecting at UCL.

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