In this, my first post of August I write about the beginnings and ends of swift season and the time in between. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

Swift Diaries

Time is what it is

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My first Swift Diary for over a month, the first one posted in July. cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com

Swift Diaries

What is left behind

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In my first post in June, I write about an encounter with a lot of swifts early on a Tuesday morning. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc...

Swift Diaries

A Tuesday in early June

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In my penultimate Swift Diary from May, I discuss prison time and swifts. @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @daveswann.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

Swift Diaries

Prison Time and Swift Trails

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Loaded as it is with the means to bestow or withhold the elemental, a cloud is fragile too – all puffed up and overblown meringue whipped from stone. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

In this week’s Swift Diaries post I reflect on empty May skies. open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social

Swift Diaries

Cold May Skies

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open.substack.com/pub/cwjonesc... In this, the second post of the year, I reflect on the swift bricks that have packed in and around our house’s dirty face. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social

Swift Diaries

The Bricky Air

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Swifts shape a fly-by, their high, riotous piercings, and one year’s shot past. My first Swift Diary of the year. @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diar...

Swift Diaries

Where are you swifts?

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There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Habitation: a Longbarrow Press reading

Habitation is a sequence of poems by Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite.

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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Saunders Waterford Paper

In the final programme of series three of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Stephen Sawyer about Jorie Graham’s poem ‘Time Frame’ in relation to and in conversation with his own poem ‘Running Thin’. @lrb.co.uk @carcanet.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social www.podbean.com/eas/pb-guui6...

There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Habitation: a Longbarrow Press reading

Habitation is a sequence of poems by Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite.

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It’s here! #BboBMBookclub is launched! 🚀 @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Lie of the Land @amyjanebeer.bsky.social The Flow Big shout outs for @libbyapp.com @cwjoneschris.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @threeacresacow.bsky.social @vertebratepub.bsky.social & much more!

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Today's 🐛🐞📚🏞️ notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - superhero springtails, dogs and adders, and the new book club for Sunday at Bill's Mother's - abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com/p/sunday-at-...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... this is truly fascinating

In Our Time - Archaea - BBC Sounds

How a discovery in the 1970s changed the theory of the origin of complex life on earth.

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Thank you @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for my Mother’s Day gift, can’t wait to read @debscohen.bsky.social

In the latest Two-Way Poetry podcast I talk to Meg Gripton-Cooper about Anne Carson’s ‘Short Talk on Hedonism’ & her own poem ‘Excavating the House of Love’ @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/meg-gripto...

A fascinating book, and what makes it so rich and rewarding is its ground-level engagement with the particulars of place (and nice to see @petegreensolo.com's Sheffield Almanac mentioned, too). 40% off @thelrm.bsky.social's 'The Feminist Art of Walking' from Pluto: www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

I fell in love with that word, Cazique, though I couldn’t find its meaning in any book my father owned. It broke the shackles in my brain: just thinking it or speaking it made me taller, other – simply more. 'Cazique' Matthew Clegg 50% off this weekend longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Here we are on Pont Neuf in the sunshine! @cwjoneschris.bsky.social

A fabulous couple of days walking around Paris with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social I loved all the chairs in public parks, creating social spaces to chat & catch up. Fabulous public art & street scape of course, all best seen on foot! @livingstreets.bsky.social

Just released - the 2nd episode of my interview with @thehalt.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast on his memoir Last Collection and my book Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @drjomaher.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social www.podbean.com/eas/pb-vgna2...

'A city caught in the act of disappearing.' Available now: the second part of my conversation with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which he and I discuss his sequence 'Little Piece of Harm' (and other Longbarrow titles). twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/part-two-o...

In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...

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Nottingham alabaster: objects of strangeness, mystery and devotion

How the English Reformation tried to obliterate a unique medieval artform

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The third and final thread in the 'Dutch River' series

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A walk from Thorne to Goole, via the Stainforth & Keadby Canal, Keadby Wind Farm, the River Trent, the River Ouse and the Dutch River, 9.25pm Saturday 3 January to 9.25am Sunday 4 January. An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Chris's Two-Way Poetry Podcast is a brilliant series. Poets including Fay Musselwhite, Rob Hindle, Pete Green and others illuminating their own practice and those of others. This episode (Pt 1 of 2), with Brian Lewis & Chris discussing the links between their own work, is amazing.

Chris Jones@cwjoneschris.bsky.social · 7mo ago

In the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Brian Lewis about his memoir Last Collection in relation to my book of poems Little Piece of Harm. @petegreensolo.com @longbarrowpress.bsky.social @emmabolland.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...

this is smashing x

'A life recovered in the moment of its telling, a city caught in the act of disappearing.' Thanks to @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for his work on the latest instalment of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, in which he and I map our respective versions of Sheffield. twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/brian-lewi...