Cover of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite. Trees and dark green landscape artefacts overlaid on an urban scene.
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
Published by Longbarrow Press
Publication date: 30 April 2026
Pre-orders from 22 April
We have been inundated with letters from them. The money they must have.
Robert Lax never used the letters of his name in a poem (as far as i know) but a favourite poem is his 'white blue yellow red', published as a screen print by edition hoffmann in the 1980s, and which we have framed in our front room.
There are also still working letterpress printshops. If you really want to print physical tickets like these ones, make friends with people like Andrew
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Many thanks to everyone who's shared and followed this (unusually slow) walk-in-progress over the past two weeks. The full thread (122 posts) is below.
These are bound for INK PAPER AND PRINT at Lewes Town Hall Saturday 2nd May 10.30 to 4.30.
Book free tickets in advance on Eventbrite. Or £2 on the door.
I’ll have books, cards, prints, boxes and collages.
The bottom left-hand corner of the cover of a sewn pamphlet; the white paper printed with a black and white diagram of a double-page spread and the text 'Uniformpamphlet' in black beneath.
Cover detail.
Flyer for 'Habitation': a collective reading on the theme of 'land, class, nature' with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite. 7.30pm, Tuesday 21 April, The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield, S3 8GG. Free entry, all welcome.
It was the 1974 edition that i supposed held the keys to (alternative) life.
I wrote about the piece on Ágota Kristóf in the new issue of the LRB: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/agot...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Evening stroll soundtrack: another part of this absorbing and timely series @bbcsounds.bsky.social
Ash heaps, Thorpe Marsh Power Station, South Yorkshire, April 2025.
Habitation: a collective reading on the theme of 'land, class, nature' with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite.
Tuesday 21 April
The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield, S3 8GG
Free entry, all welcome. Book here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...
Join author @nicholasroyle.bsky.social and myself live online this Thursday 16th April at 7pm BST when he'll be talking about and reading fromhis cracking new book, and much else besides. Free, and all welcome. If you'd like a link email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
A collage of mine has been included in the University of the West of England, Bristol book art exhibition 'The Mountains are Calling'. The artworks on display until the end of July at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/
Free Verse Poetry Book Fair flyer
We'll be among the 60+ poetry publishers at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair on Saturday 25 April: hope to see you there.
St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry. Further info:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/free-v...
Book cover for Final Slash Boy by Stephen S. Mills, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is dark charcoal with a subtle grid texture. Four vertical stripes in yellow, orange, red, and purple run down the left side of the cover. The title appears in bold white serif type at the top left, with the author's name in white beneath it. "Broken Sleep Books" appears in small type at the bottom left.
Final Slash Boy is a taut, incendiary collection that melds queer desire, pop horror and personal hauntology into a lyric of resistance and reclamation. Channelling the tropes of slasher cinema, Mills interrogates survival, gendered violence [...]
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Book cover for Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney, published by Broken Sleep Books. The background is a warm terracotta red, with the title and author name in black serif type at the top left. Three white line-drawn washing lines stretch across the cover, each hung with pegged items: boxer shorts, socks, and underwear on the upper lines, and a stuffed toy bear, a swimsuit, and shorts on the lower line.
Small Change by Steph Ellen Feeney is a radiant, unflinching collection that distils the seismic transformations of new motherhood into a sequence of poems both intimate and expansive.
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An exhibition poster with a painting of a mountain designed by Shaun Oaten, the text reads: The Mountains Are Calling… An exhibition for World Book Night 2026 Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol Thursday 2nd April – Friday 31st July 2026
An artist's book by Kate Bernstein for World Book Night - A hard cover book which has no spine, the printed paper inside is triangular and unfolds to make the shape of a mountain.
A piece for World Book Night by Ray Mackenzie: inspired by the original anonymous introduction to Select Views that later became the justly famous guide to the lakes by Wordsworth. Updated for the 21st century it has a drawing of a drone hovering over the lakes in the shape of a cloud.
An artist's book for World Book Night by Tom Sowden. The style of the book is that of the artist Ed Ruscha. It says thirtysix views of steeples. Loosely inspired by the book Seven Steeples by Sara Baume, which is based in Ireland. Tom adapted a copy of his artist’s book Thirtysix Views of #MtFuji and replaced the images of Mount Fuji with pencil drawings of Ireland’s tallest mountain, Carrauntoohil. Another mountain he hasn’t climbed.
The Mountains Are Calling… An exhibition for World Book Night is now on show at Bower Ashton Library until Friday 31st July 2026. Open Mon-Fri 9-5, all welcome.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/ ⛰️📚 Inspired by Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. ⛰️📚
Looking forward to tomorrow's Indie Press Fair... 🧡
@indiepressnetwork.bsky.social @indienovella.bsky.social @renardpress.com @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk @waterstones.bsky.social @dauntbooks.bsky.social @theguardian.com @telegraph.co.uk @newstatesman1913.bsky.social @thespectator1828.bsky.social
A poster announcing the inaugural printer's fair this weekend at Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG, UK, organised by the Hay Letterpress Guild.
An event this weekend at Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG, UK, organised by the Hay Letterpress Guild. Their inaugural Printers' Fair is a Celebration of Print Making & Associated Arts, Saturday, 11th April 2026, 10-4, free, all welcome.
www.hayletterpressguild.org
We have some fascinating archives @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social: contemporary literature (including poetry), film, visual arts, history, rare books. We also have Visiting Fellowships for writers to use them for research. Deadline to apply is 17th April: please share! www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...
This is the archived-on-the-blog version of the April CBe newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/news...
A set of folded concertina papers in bright blue and pink with the title 100 Days Project Scotland, fold, found concertina. From a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.
Two folded concertina books, folded from found papers, one in the shape of a little house, one with a diamond pattern in black and white. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.
Details of some folded concertina books, made from found papers in different shapes and colours, one has a little pair of dolls legs sticking out with ruby slippers on. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.
A handmade box with a little concertina book inside, this is made from brightly coloured marbled papers with a red border - the 100 tiny books made for the project live inside it. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.
Our second exhibition that has opened this month is Gen Harrison's '100 Days Project Scotland: Fold | Found Concertinas'. 100 artists' books made over 100 days. On show now at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK until Tues 30th June, Mon-Fri 9-5, more info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/100days2026/
Along with 5 other @longbarrowpress.bsky.social poets, I'll be reading at an event called 'Habitation' on Tuesday 21 April, at the Harlequin here in #Sheffield
Organiser @fayay.bsky.social has set a theme "land/class/nature"
Free entry, please reserve a place ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...
Book Fair Calendar lists anarchist, artist, illustration, indie, letterpress, photography, small press, wayzgoose and zine UK book fairs.
Coming up in April, events in London (2), Margate and Manchester.
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For updates & additions please get in touch!
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
A full house at the shop this evening to hear Claire-Louise Bennett and Ben Pester discussing MAGIC & MECHANICS, just out from @scratchbooks.bsky.social ,with the book's editor Tom Conaghan
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Poetry collection submissions open! 1st April - 31st May brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
We are open for full length poetry collection submissions until 31st May.
A very small percentage of people who submit to Broken Sleep Books actually buy a book from us. If every submitter bought just 1 title, it would make a huge difference.
Guidelines: www.brokensleepbooks.com/submissions
