Small Publishers Fair
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Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027. linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
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...
Here's a few photos from last month's Michael Marks Awards event, at which Hana Ormara was presented with the Illustration Award for her intergraphia pamphlet. Hana interviewed for the Michael Marks Awards: michaelmarksawards.org/in-conversat... Buy the pamphlet: intergraphia.cargo.site/Hana-Ormara
Cover reveal! We're delighted to announce the first title in intergraphia Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images and poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. On sale from Wednesday.
What brought Ginsberg to Manchester in 1973—and whom did he meet? @rogerbygott.bsky.social investigates in Ginsberg & Manchester, out 3 September. Pre-order now for £7 + p&p: www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page... Photo: Allen Ginsberg Estate/Stanford University Libraries #BookSky #Manchester
The Editor of CB Editions @cbeditions.bsky.social Charles Boyle (pictured below) would like to get more books into bookshops & readers' hands. If you're a bookshop, or a reader, please order directly from him to make him smile! Please share this post. . . www.cbeditions.com/books.html
Bristol Artist’s Book Event is nearly here - Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June 2026 at UWE Bristol Fine Art Studios at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX. 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/ Come and meet 100+ book artists!
Join us in Sheffield next week for the launch of 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 24 June Upstairs at The Shakespeare, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB 7.30pm start Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...
Our BABE poster printed by Ben Goodman, it’s out and about in town but we have saved some for exhibitors to collect when they arrive next week (while they last). A beautiful relief printed blend celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/ev...
Britain's post-war graphic designers helped reshape society during a period of profound national transformation, yet many of their names have quietly slipped from view... the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...
Righting a Wrong: Why We've Reprinted Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 in Paperback
Some books deserve to reach more people. When we first published Modernist Graphic Design in Britain 1945–1980 by Ian McLaren and Tony Pritchard, we knew we had something special on our hands. What we...
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Thanks so much @emmalee1.bsky.social for this gorgeous review of my new collection, which includes some close reading and interpretation of a number of poems. 🥁📈🌊
Ink Sweat & Tears@inksweatandtears.co.uk · 2mo agoA fine new review up on the site now! @emmalee1.bsky.social in praise of Jeremy Dixon/ @hazardpressuk.bsky.social's 'The Beat The Pulse The Wave' (@arachnepress.bsky.social). Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/emma-lee-on-... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Review #PoetryReview
Congratulations to Hana Ormara and @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social! You can order Hana's pamphlet here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Hana-Ormara
Michael Marks Awards@michaelmarksawards.bsky.social · 2mo agoHana Ormara Wins the Michael Marks Award for Illustration (£1,000) for Godhuma: The Breathing of the Earth (intergraphia) michaelmarksawards.org/shortlist/ha...
Some of the small selection of artists’ books I have put together for an exhibition at druckwerk Basel, 16-18 June, during the week of Art Basel. Part of the CFPR's cabinet of Curiosities in: Alive! Contemporary Printmaking, a showcase of artefacts beyond the multiple. cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/alive-contem...
Beautiful book post, THE—A Concordance by Colin Sackett and INCISIONS—A Micro Anthology by Michael Hampton, published by the wonderful @uniformbooks.bsky.social I can't wait to see how this new pamphlet series evolves: www.colinsackett.co.uk/uniformpamph...
Bristol Artist’s Book Event is Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2026, 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome An international event showcasing artists’ books to the public. Special guests from Japan bringing bookworks and the Kujibiki Drawing project. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/
Andrew Wilson is posting page-by-page, and almost daily "the content of one of the great books of the early 1960s, La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow and George Maciunas: 'An Anthology of Chance Operations'."
Andrew Wilson@andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 3mo agoSixth is Walter De Maria
Every movement of the pen, every abrasion of rock and paper is important. Now more than ever.
This will be a fascinating and beautiful book, and an essential addition to the work on Ian Hamilton Finlay - well worth supporting.
Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'm editing the first book about Ian Hamilton Finlay foregrounding the voices of his collaborators. My publisher Lund Humphries are crowdfunding for the text. If you're interested in Finlay, concrete poetry, modern Scottish art and lit., etc, please donate! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...
The first collaborative material from Richard Skelton and Autumn Richardson in over a decade is a tape of contemplative, decelerated Americana with a hypnotic twist, led by Richardson's ethereal vocals and Skelton's jerky, dubby guitarwork... boomkat.com/products/ray...
Delighted to announce we will be at Offprint London next week. Come say hi, grab yourself a book!
Now out of print, but the text of 'The European Eel' reappears as the first section of Ely's collection 'Eely' (Longbarrow Press, 2024)
This remarkable and brilliant long poem by @steveeely.bsky.social is published by Sheffield's @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Paul Cheney@halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social · 3mo agoBook 56: The European Eel
1825: Wrote another portion of my Life & took a Walk to seek a Nightingales nest - found a Song thrushes in bushy close by the side of a young oak with 4 eggs never saw one of this kind in such a place before
Money flees the scenes of its crimes, bolts to its pile on the upland plains to laze on the plumpest cerulean upholstery, warding off gravity with icons and charms lifted from ancient tapestry tales. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...
Call for exhibitors - Athens Art Book Fair: The ABBF is an artist-run organisation devoted to artist publishing. Our international art book fair happens once a year and hosts artists, publishers, zinesters and anything in-between from Greece and abroad. Deadline to apply 31 May. athensartbookfair.gr
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A pleasure to be joining this wonderful lineup on May 29th for the online @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social May launch. Pay-what-you-want tix available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
Shandy Hall #gardens open for @NGSyorkshire tomorrow 8th May 6.30 - 8pm #opengardens www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/event/nation...
Please support @longbarrowpress.bsky.social - they publish excellent and beautiful poetry books and their care and attention to detail are second to none.
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis will, in all likelihood, be the last full-length collection that we publish. It's a fine book: as good as any we've put out in the last twenty years.