The sky is soundless and sterile, soft scythes whisking isometric space. The wind interrupts the dream, and the wheeling wakes the air. (30/68, 'White Thorns', 2017)
Longbarrow Press
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Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis. https://longbarrowpress.com
Born in the Garden, died in the Flames, Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime. Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death, coming down every year to a single fear: will this be the spring that none return? 'Eely' Steve Ely Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
So the walking ends and we turn in at our doors and switch on the light and there are all the books in rows trying to tell us what we could have done. From ‘Nine Poems’, in Peter Riley's 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' longbarrowpress.com/featured-poe...
I hold out my hands to show they are empty that we’ve come for a while to the end of things To the End of the Land: a text/audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
To both possess and be possessed by what has been forbidden. Do we ever learn to live with less? The literal work of keeping the apricots from going to waste. I want this. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza Out now longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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...
While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...
Four walks in four seasons: south to north, west to east, east to west, north to south. Of time and the Dutch River. 1: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river 2: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere... 3: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/point-zero 4: longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/to-scale
Two paragliders overhead, drifting near Uffington, engines audible for miles. The tap is placed in memory of Peter Wren, aged 14 years. ‘He loved the countryside.’ No dates. I turn away and look out into a landscape in which Peter is always 14 years old. longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/slow-netwo...
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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The Peak District is burning — and where there’s fire, there’s smoke. Given Sheffield’s proximity to the park, it feels inevitable that, if more frequent and severe fires keep happening on the moors, they are going to have an increasing effect on us. The question is, can we do anything about it?
The Peak District is on fire. Can we stop it happening again?
‘You’re breathing in the smoke, and it looks and feels post-apocalyptic’
sheffieldtribune.co.uk
Parkwood finches flit through chinks in chain-link fencing and methane pockets: their busy lungs are stitching a filigree of treble.
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4d agoOften on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com
Pink dusk. Along this B-road starlings have colonised 20 yards of power-line. Their song is a kind of current, the current, a kind of song.
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4d agoOften on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com
"I take a sharp turn into the New Junction Canal. If I’m south of the River Went then this must be South Yorkshire." 'Unrecovered Time' (October 2025), in which the author crosses all four counties of Yorkshire on foot in a single day. #YorkshireDay longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/unrecovere...
At Wadsley Bridge I clamber to the edge that measures the city where I stand, level with the power-lines and feel the skin tighten around my skull. I count 3 butterflies, a hovering kestrel, and the thee-ewe, thee-ewe of some spry, flitting bird.
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4d agoOften on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com
This is a wonderful collection, one I go back to for its rootedness in place whilst taking my thoughts beyond 👇
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 4d agoOften on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com
Often on trance-walks I can’t quite retrace my twists and turns going back: my thread could be left or right; everywhere could be The Way. Special one-day offer for #YorkshireDay: 35% off Matthew Clegg's excellent debut collection 'West North East' westnortheast.wordpress.com
Total book sales for the month of July: 10. Fortunately, I have approximately £47 in chocolate coins, which will help with bills, and £40K in Likes
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 5d agoSeven-day summary: 0 sales 3 unsolicited manuscripts
If you can, please support our appeal to help the recovery of Dunwich Heath. Your donation will help restore habitats, protect wildlife and build resilience for the future. Donate here: nationaltrust.org.uk/dunwich-heath-appeal
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Seven-day summary: 0 sales 3 unsolicited manuscripts
“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
theguardian.com
Update from the National Trust re. Dunwich Heath, 9.24am, Friday 31 July.
The forest fire at Minsmere is just heartbreaking. A haven for nightjars and Dartford Warblers ablaze. A unique habitat in cinders. That Badenoch has made a commitment to Net Zero a hanging offence for any parliamentary contenders at this very moment is just staggering
Out now! The first title in Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images & poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. Buy the pamphlet + poster here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-...
Available now! intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-...
Vik Shirley@vikshirley.bsky.social · last wk.I have a new pamphlet out on Wednesday with the amazing @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social! 'Amorous Electrons' is a sequence of images & poetry that draws on composer & electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram's 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound & Electronics'. Each copy comes with accompanying poster! 💙
half of England is officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought for the second summer in a row, but sure, build more water-guzzling data centres, it’s fine www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought
Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water
theguardian.com