Longbarrow Press
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
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A "magnificent, serpentine modern epic ... this tour de force of language, imagination, varied technique, almost obsessive scholarship and huge emotional force must rank among the most outstanding of recent long British poems."
Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
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Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
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December 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A "magnificent, serpentine modern epic ... this tour de force of language, imagination, varied technique, almost obsessive scholarship and huge emotional force must rank among the most outstanding of recent long British poems."
Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
thehighwindowpress.com/category/rev...
Nick Cooke on Steve Ely's 'Eely'
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A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
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December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob,
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
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a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob,
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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The publisher can deliver by hand, on foot, to any Sheffield address (postcodes S1 - S18), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered on or before 24 December.
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The publisher can deliver by hand, on foot, to any Sheffield address (postcodes S1 - S18), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered on or before 24 December.
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A surprise seeing this popping up in Michael Caines’ column in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social following his discussion of this year’s *wordoftheyear* according to the usual authorities on the matter.
December 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A surprise seeing this popping up in Michael Caines’ column in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social following his discussion of this year’s *wordoftheyear* according to the usual authorities on the matter.
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wrote, a couple of years back, about joy for the third Sunday of Advent: order-disrupting, hierarchy-destroying, world-reordering joy. here it is, now on my own site:
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bewilderment.ohbara.com/2023/12/17/j...
joy to the world – you are here
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December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
wrote, a couple of years back, about joy for the third Sunday of Advent: order-disrupting, hierarchy-destroying, world-reordering joy. here it is, now on my own site:
bewilderment.ohbara.com/2023/12/17/j...
bewilderment.ohbara.com/2023/12/17/j...
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First published as a 'digital pamphlet' in 2023, and briefly available as a print edition in 2024, here's the free, downloadable PDF of our 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology, with poems apt for the year's end, and the year to come.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
First published as a 'digital pamphlet' in 2023, and briefly available as a print edition in 2024, here's the free, downloadable PDF of our 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology, with poems apt for the year's end, and the year to come.
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The Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents The Paradise Collective, with readings from Kym Martindale, Emma Bolland, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Terry O’Connor, Ágnes Lehóczky.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents The Paradise Collective, with readings from Kym Martindale, Emma Bolland, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Terry O’Connor, Ágnes Lehóczky.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
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In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
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the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
In sleep, in dream song,
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the daylight ghosts are laid
and trouble us no more.
In silence nightlong
a life’s debts are paid
at the open door.
'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls'
Peter Riley
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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"A quietness falling on my small house. And the fuchsia that keeps on well into winter. I wasn’t there to cut it back, or to watch the settling of things."
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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December 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
"A quietness falling on my small house. And the fuchsia that keeps on well into winter. I wasn’t there to cut it back, or to watch the settling of things."
'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza
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Somewhere in Tethys’ salty darkness,
in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels
are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs
in uncountable centillions, each buoyed
on its micron of oil.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
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in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels
are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs
in uncountable centillions, each buoyed
on its micron of oil.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
January 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Somewhere in Tethys’ salty darkness,
in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels
are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs
in uncountable centillions, each buoyed
on its micron of oil.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
in spurts of milt and billowing roe, eels
are birthing their posterity, a spore-storm of eggs
in uncountable centillions, each buoyed
on its micron of oil.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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“The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”.
'Meridian'
Nancy Gaffield
A long poem
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
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'Meridian'
Nancy Gaffield
A long poem
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“The idea was to walk the line from Peacehaven to the Humber. I had devised the notion that the physical act of walking would help me to locate what was lost”.
'Meridian'
Nancy Gaffield
A long poem
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
'Meridian'
Nancy Gaffield
A long poem
An invisible line
A 270-mile walk
ngmeridian.wordpress.com
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Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking.
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
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Earlier this year, we published 'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Apt for winter reading (and listening).
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
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You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
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December 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Earlier this year, we published 'To the End of the Land', a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Apt for winter reading (and listening).
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
You can order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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mutable edge // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025
#collageart #abstract #collage #queerart #artist
#collageart #abstract #collage #queerart #artist
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
mutable edge // handcut paper collage with graphite on recycled paperboard, november 2025
#collageart #abstract #collage #queerart #artist
#collageart #abstract #collage #queerart #artist
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'Now voyager — unmake, decentre yourself.'
Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness.
Dedicated to Joanna Macy.
Print copies £4 + postage:
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#zines #collage
Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness.
Dedicated to Joanna Macy.
Print copies £4 + postage:
jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
#zines #collage
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
'Now voyager — unmake, decentre yourself.'
Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness.
Dedicated to Joanna Macy.
Print copies £4 + postage:
jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
#zines #collage
Selected pages from my zine You the Great Adventurer: collage meditations on moving through these times with joy, hope and togetherness.
Dedicated to Joanna Macy.
Print copies £4 + postage:
jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/product/you-...
#zines #collage
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"Eely is a symphony in four movements. This book-length poem by Steve Ely explores themes of fenland, power, conflict and biodiversity, and the lifecycle, ecology, epic migration, conservation status and enigma of the European eel."
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December 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"Eely is a symphony in four movements. This book-length poem by Steve Ely explores themes of fenland, power, conflict and biodiversity, and the lifecycle, ecology, epic migration, conservation status and enigma of the European eel."
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📚 Gentle reminder ...📚
Who doesn't like a good book for Christmas?
Especially when they are as stunningly beautiful and unique as from Longbarrow Press.
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
#Sheffield #Publisher #books
Who doesn't like a good book for Christmas?
Especially when they are as stunningly beautiful and unique as from Longbarrow Press.
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
#Sheffield #Publisher #books
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
December 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
📚 Gentle reminder ...📚
Who doesn't like a good book for Christmas?
Especially when they are as stunningly beautiful and unique as from Longbarrow Press.
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
#Sheffield #Publisher #books
Who doesn't like a good book for Christmas?
Especially when they are as stunningly beautiful and unique as from Longbarrow Press.
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
#Sheffield #Publisher #books
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Sheffield people- Longbarrow Press go above and beyond when it comes to customer service. Well worth having a look to see what takes your fancy, and choose yourself (or someone else) a gift-wrapped, hand-delivered book
The publisher can deliver by hand, on foot, to any Sheffield address (postcodes S1 - S18), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered on or before 24 December.
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
December 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Sheffield people- Longbarrow Press go above and beyond when it comes to customer service. Well worth having a look to see what takes your fancy, and choose yourself (or someone else) a gift-wrapped, hand-delivered book
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“They taught us to read and we thought we were so grand as to join heaven and earth. But all we did was wallpaper over the crack between myth and science and lose our homes.” Always inspiring.
December 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“They taught us to read and we thought we were so grand as to join heaven and earth. But all we did was wallpaper over the crack between myth and science and lose our homes.” Always inspiring.
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Spending time with an artefact.
December 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Spending time with an artefact.
Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking.
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Richard Eason - a supporter of Longbarrow Press for twenty years, and a good friend for thirty years - would have turned 52 today. A week after his death, I walked from Leeds to Goole, and thought of him. This is an account of the walking and thinking.
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
The publisher can deliver by hand, on foot, to any Sheffield address (postcodes S1 - S18), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered on or before 24 December.
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The publisher can deliver by hand, on foot, to any Sheffield address (postcodes S1 - S18), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered on or before 24 December.
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"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
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December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log