I was born two weeks late, and suspect that I'm two weeks late with this, but it was an enjoyable five minutes in the middle of a 12-hour working day. A different five minutes would have produced a different selection. I tried to think of records that had left an impression, and these came to mind.

From river to pond, the heron steps and pauses over a mined world. 'Have You Always Been Here?': a new post on the Longbarrow Press site longbarrowpress.com/2026/09/18/h...

Xing the Line: @emmabolland.bsky.social reads with Nell Perry, Iris Garrelfs and Jordan Savage, Sunday 11 October, Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London, E2 8DA. £5 waged, £3 unwaged. Doors at 6pm for a 7pm start.

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Xing the Line: @emmabolland.bsky.social reads with Nell Perry, Iris Garrelfs and Jordan Savage, Sunday 11 October, Dream Bags Jaguar Shoes, 32 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London, E2 8DA. £5 waged, £3 unwaged. Doors at 6pm for a 7pm start.

Have You Always Been Here? invites readers to slow down and notice the overlooked details that quietly shape our lives. Having seen them, can we imagine life without them, or without having time to give to them? longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Combining lyric poems, prose poems & haibun, Have You Always Been Here? traces moments of encounter with landscape, creatures, & everyday wonder. Small acts of attention. Lingering questions. Larger uncertainties. Froglets. Moorhens. Herons. Light. longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Sky darkens bright with ancient light from uncountable pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space, swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel slips off, begins to make her way downstream. 'Eely' Steve Ely A symphony in four movements Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Well into poet Steve Ely's stunning book Eely by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. An epic poetic riff on eels - and eelishness - and their lives and everything their lives touch & signify & portend, past, present & future. And I can't stop thinking it's a must-read for @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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My partner gave me the title: Have You Always Been Here? A question addressed to landscape, memory, birdsong, trees, silence and perhaps even a care-attentive part of the self. A new 3-part poetry sequence from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Agreed! Utterly beautiful and instantly re-readable. Congratulations @eyesfront.bsky.social and @longbarrowpress.bsky.social a publishing highlight for 2026!

Burgi Zenhaeusern@burgi.bsky.social · 6d ago

When you get mail from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 💃😍💃 Look at the beauty & details of these three pamphlets that comprise Matthew Clegg's Have You Always Been Here!!! #poetry #bookSky 📚💙 & 💙💙💙

I'm excited to be organising this two-day symposium with @janesamuels.bsky.social - The Nature Within - keynote from @pollyrowena.bsky.social - details at www.thenaturewithin.co.uk

Centre for Place Writing@centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 5d ago

We're delighted to announce this call for papers for a 2-day symposium The Nature Within. A free to attend event we are inviting poster presentations & papers on the natural world through the lens of illness & disability and illness & disability as a part of nature #AcademicSky thenaturewithin.co.uk

When the heron preens delicate wisps of feather melt into light. 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...

When you get mail from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 💃😍💃 Look at the beauty & details of these three pamphlets that comprise Matthew Clegg's Have You Always Been Here!!! #poetry #bookSky 📚💙 & 💙💙💙

Thanks to everyone who took part and who came to this. So moved by your support. Hope you enjoy reading The Gleaning

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Thanks to everyone who joined us for the launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite in Sheffield last night. Over 60 in attendance (and more turned away at the door). Special thanks to Matthew Clegg, Naomi Frisby, Ray Hearne, Rob Hindle and Karl Hurst for lending their voices.

There are still a few places left on my online creative writing (poetry) short course, ‘Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition’. More information and booking details can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-b...

Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition

A creative writing (poetry) course of 5 workshops in which participants will devise their own bespoke forms for poems and sequences.

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longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p... @eyesfront.bsky.social reflecting on the three poetry pamphlets he has just published with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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How do we reconnect with the living world when so much of modern life keeps us indoors, online, & fixed to screens? This sequence follows paths through river valleys, reservoir perimeters, & overlooked spaces where attention becomes a form of belonging longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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Beautiful books 👇

Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · last wk.

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

SCORES FOR WALKING, a new digital text piece launching at Light Night, Leeds 28-29 November openup.leeds.ac.uk/events/light...

Light Night Leeds: Scores for Walking

Journey through the Yorkshire Dales like never before with J.R. Carpenter’s Scores for Walking; a...

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Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

In an age of acceleration, optimisation, and endless scrolling, slowness can feel radical. Linger. Listen. Look again. Have You Always Been Here? from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/

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Tzu-Jan as Performance Outcome | Matthew Clegg Into every account mail is pinging: ‘we will secure our long-term future by competing on more fronts.’ Let’s find a glade where a thought might grow. …

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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...

Women to Watch | Tate Britain

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The elegance and glamour of small press publishing. This is what happens when your house is also a warehouse. Buy some books so that I can navigate a way out of this increasingly cramped space

The elegance and glamour of small press publishing. This is what happens when your house is also a warehouse. Buy some books so that I can navigate a way out of this increasingly cramped space

Delighted to announce that Longbarrow HQ is exhibiting 'Kitchen', a new installation by Rachel Whiteread, comprising 46,829 fittings, doors, cabinets, etc, stacked from floor to ceiling. Hillsborough, Sheffield, 3rd October - 47th Julember.

Written during and after the pandemic, these poems begin with confinement and move towards attention, encounter and belonging. Not a project about escape, but about learning to be present. Have You Always Been Here? @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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“...an important poem, a major long poem of the 1960s... Uniformbooks are to be commended for bringing it back into circulation in a format that is both handsome and serviceable.” —Billy Mills blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Book-of-the-Green-Man-by-Ronald-Johnson/9781910010044 #PoetryDay

Next up for Pink Opaque: our first ever headline slot 🤩 and it's free to get in! Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield Wednesday 7 October So excited to have the brilliant Ladies Nite coming over from Leeds for this as well as local hero My Lo-fi Heart 🩷🪩 Book at www.fatsoma.com/e/fnl3ronx/p...

Poetry as a form of attention practice. Three pamphlets exploring how careful noticing can deepen our relationship with place, time and the more-than-human world. Have You Always Been Here? @longbarrowpress.bsky.social longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/p...

Tzu-Jan in Post-Nature: A Process | Matthew Clegg

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. During Covid lockdowns my partner [i] and I started taking our daily exercise along Sheffield’s Rivelin valley early in the morning …

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